The Jullietta is in town!!! Yay!!! SO call your favorite nature show hosts and settle in! Juliette and her mom are both in Phoenix to celebrate the 100th birthday of Julliette's mom's first cousin. Yep - Julliette has a first cousin once removed who is 100 years old, destroying all notions of the myth of generations. Wowsers.
Picked up Speckle about 7:30 from her hotel on Central Ave. which turned out to have an address different from the one she gave me by an order of magnitude. This would not have been a big deal if, say, she had been at 3 Central Ave. but was instead at 30, but unfortunately she was at 4000 instead of 400. There was a gigantic gutted building / scaffold where her hotel would've been, so I figured things out relatively quickly. No probs - got her, went down to the restaurant on 5th ave and beat everyone there by a solid fifteen minutes. Beck, Dan and Christina met us down there for a little Lovett '99 reunion.
We went to Cibo's, an italian restaurant in a converted house in the middle of a downtown neighborhood. Very tiny, so we ended up waiting 45 minutes - hour, but that was cool, as we got to hang and chat at the bar. As mentioned here previously, J-ette is engaged, but we managed not to drown her with wedding questions for the duration. She's still kickin' it up in Boston (Cambridge, actually), rocking the computer consulting world and occasionally playing Ultimate with Polaroid*. Doing well in all respects (though she did have the pleasure of staying in Newark last night due to a missed connection. And it turns out the airline won't reimburse you for "an Act of Air Traffic Control").
* - This just in: Polaroid nearly got blackballed from playing in league this year! Turns out there's an option to list teams that you don't want to play due to past conflicts. And six teams listed Polaroid! Ouch! Turns out only one of them could even possibly be connected back to when I played, so I can't take too much blame. Good to see that "Spirit Foul" lives on. People ended up talking it out with some of the other captains and got the black marks removed from the team's record, but egad man! Serious drama in the northeast!
(Of course, this being Ultimate: sounds like a team named "Black and Blue" cheated last year and brought a ringer to the tournament, got caught, and got banned from league this year. So they... changed their team name. And have been playing as though nothing happened. Ooh. Stupidity reigns).
Anyways, when we eventually did eat, we had excellent homemade single dish pizzas, and it NAILED the night. Fantastic. Great meal, great hanging, and a continuous flow of water to parch our desert-dry throats. We were seated directly under the air conditioner, so when we finally left it was about a fifty degree transition from inside to out. Exciting. Took the Julliette back to the hotel and headed home - probably won't see her again this weekend as she has all kinds of centennial parties to attend, but great to see her for the time we did.
(This morning: full of pizzafied energy, I went for an hour long 6.8 mile run. So with two miles yesterday, that brings the total for the week to 27.1 miles. I'll go 3-4 tomorrow, depending how my legs feel, and that will put me over 30 for the week, well on the way to the 100-150 range I'm shooting for over the next month. Yeah, doing it, etc.).
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