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They spend most of the time trying to get me to pick which things I want to inherit from them, as Grandma will likely not be around by xmas. Also, point out that this is the most time they've spent alone with me since I was an infant. Guess that happens when you had always got a sibling attached at the hip.

Got the penthouse suite at the hotel, watched airplanes landing at eye level. Fucking amazing view.

You know the scene in UHF where the kid gets the firehose turned on him to drink from, and it slams him against the back wall? Yeah, like that, but with network traffic info instead of water.

Saw her adorable daughter for the first time in over a decade, her husband spends most of the night trying to let him introduce the boy to venture capitalists to start up a company. Whoa. And overwhelming.

Hotel designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, astoundingly beautiful. I kid you not, I even took pictures of the bathroom. There was no corner of this place that wasn't breathtaking. Oh, and free rein of the spa. Hellz yeah.

Got stuck on the plane at the gate for an hour and a half, next to a toddler and a baby. Baby cried non-stop, toddler was a fucking wigglewort chatterbox. Garhrcgoeuhr!!#(*!! I'll excuse the baby, but seriously. Can you not stop your child from going on at top volume for at least 10 minutes? And then I called my mom to distract myself... well, it turns out I guess there's no hope of getting her into remission. It's pretty much a given she'll have this and chemo for the rest of her life. Another immediate family member to watch die slowly and painfully, awesome. And hey, there's an 80% chance I'll get to do it too in 15 years, sweet!