jay | Anniversary

After averting more project threats (this time from NASA Headquarters, questioning whether we'd gotten the appropriate approvals and export control inspections before shipping our equipment), I took Pat out for our 19th wedding anniversary last night. (If I counted from when we started dating, it would be nearly 22 years)

After trying one restaurant that was closed (owners on holiday), we found a small cafe in Palo Alto that had the right atmosphere (and wine list :-). Duck breast in cassis and peppercorns, baby veggies, crisply-thin yams.... yum. With a good '99 Chateauneuf-du-Pape, and apple tart and un-American coffee afterwards. Lots of reminiscing about past experiences, many of them from past travel together. Lots of starry-eyed gazing and giggling...

We gave each other gifts this year -- for

patgreene, an hour massage and hour hot tub at Watercourse Way (pampering for when I'm away for 3 weeks), and she gave me some DVDs that she found in NYC last month (Black Adder I, Hitchhiker's Guide, and the last season of Good Neighbors). The latter is a favorite of mine... Felicity Kendal... aaah. Although arguably Paul Eddington and Penelope Keith went on to have bigger careers.