Late update

Well, it's Monday night - I'm doing a little work for Company_A after my first day of Project Management boot camp. Lots of fun, it's not a tremendously fun class, there's only 7 people in it and 5 of them are techies like me who are trying to round out their skills. One is a PM for a bank (he hasn't said much) and one is this Australian guy (Paul) who is actually making it interesting (not that the instructor's bad). Paul's the director of PM for some big financial company and he's taking the course to get the credits for recertification. That guy is seriously sharp - some people are just able to make so much sense, and when they explain things it seems to obvious - my dad said a long time ago that people who are really masters of a difficult art make you say "that doesn't look so hard, I bet I could do that", until you try it.
Anyway, so obviously no Company_A stuff going on, except that the stock price looks to be healthy. We announce earnings etc tomorrow. I hope we did well (believe me, I'm in no position to even guess as to how well or poorly we did - such is life in the trrenches).
Went to CA last weekend, to Santa Barbara for a wedding between Terry and Harry, two men who have been together almost as long as I've been alive. It was really, really nice. I'd never been to a gay wedding before and I didn't know what to expect, but I guess I didn't expect it to seem so...normal. Nothing flashy or extravagant, just two people who I haven't seen look that happy together since my own wedding. It was also a Lutheran mass, which I'd never seen before and it was almost exactly like the Catholic wedding mass. They had a really nice reception and Harry made a particularly touching speech, and Terry invited us to the after party. I think Clau was really happy to see Terry and Nancy (her old bosses from the museum) again. I like Harry and Terry a lot, and I was really glad we got to go.
My only complaint about the weekend was that I felt rushed the whole time. We flew to CA in the morning on Friday and got there at about noon. We hauled ass to Ventura to have lunch with Joyce and John, and I got sucked into a phone meeting just as we got to the restaurant. I finished my meeting, then ate lunch with them, then dropped Clau and Joyce off for a movie, then went to go see Jimmy and the new QAD campus. Very nice place. I ended up seeing quite a few people there who I never got to say good-bye to, so it turned out to be really good. Then raced back to Ventura, picked up Clau, went to Sean's house, went out to dinner (Mexican - good Mexican! so good!) with Sean and Tess, then went back home and hung out and did stuff. Then on Saturday we had breakfast w/ Sean and Tess, then went to the wedding, then raced back to Ventura to have dinner with Sean and Tess again. Sean's quite the cook, although he's definitely not pepper-shy, so we were scorched but happy after the meal. We had breakfast with Al and Neva the next day. Really, the only person I didn't get to see was Ernest, because his phone no longer works (again!). And, in reading this, it looks like it was pretty relaxed, but we were running around the whole time. It was really good seeing Sean and Tess. We could tell Tess was having a hard time of it, but she put on a brave face.
I miss California. I was telling Sean "I know we made the right decision in moving to New York, but I really miss this place." I miss seeing stars at night. I miss sleeping in silence. I miss having a backyard. I miss cheap, delicious Mexican food. I miss the few good friends we left behind.
Anyway, we flew back last night, and we're still kind of recovering. I just finished my work for Company_A so I'm gonna go drink a beer and see if we've got anything to eat.