Comic-Con<\/a>. I knocked down 3 G&Ts in pretty short order, and then got back to the hotel and thought, “All told, it’s not a bad start to a vacation.”<\/p>\nOn to the Con!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Bad weather kept us from leaving Newark Airport for quite a while yesterday, so our first day of vacation was spent largely doing crossword puzzles, reading (thought I’d read Huck Finn again), listening to our iPods, and doing more crossword puzzles. We got in around 9pm local time (midnight by my standards, after getting to … <\/p>\n
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