You'll love this: the word is "toque", from the French, natch

Ha! I knew there was something about the spelling. I used to know the correct way too, hailing from Michigan originally, but the Los Angeles sun does something to the memory I think.

t sits in pouting over possibly no juliana (Edite: OR JohnSweden) corner with Lee

(This is what I get for reading fifteen windows at once)

The timing actually works out better for me to go see Nilly in California, but the money things seems to be making NYC look like the more logical choice. But still, even if I'll just be able to spare one day, Nilly's going to be here! Yay! Nilly, I'm getting so excited for you now.

sits in pouting over possibly no juliana corner with Lee

Well, someone isn't paying attention. (though no Juiliana certainly is poutworthy.)

Bad Sherpa, no biscuit.

Oooh! How cool would it be to get Hil in Cali? Very.

See, I'm going to be between leases August 20 to September 1, and I thought one solution would be to store my stuff somewhere and take a little vacation, except I'm already going on a cruise with my family earlier in August, and it probably wouldn't be nice to take two big chunks of time off from lab so close to each other. That would be around NYC-time, right? Could work, in an ideal world.

cues Geddy

It's a beauty way to go ...

Opens up the pouting corner, waits for Sean

I got there first. Might happen later in the year. Next year, with a whole new slate of vacation and budget? For sure.

the Los Angeles sun does something to the memory I think.

Yeah, it erases totally irrelevant information, like what to call hats that you only wear when it is freezing out.

I'm definitly going to see if I can get the money together for some leg of Nilly's trip. It would probably just be the East Coast leg but I'm going to see what I can do.

The way my schedule works out, the closer it gets to August 21, the less able I am to do anything. August 21 to 26 or 27, I can go nowhere. From the 26th or 27th until September 1, I'm pretty much free to do whatever. So, just need to figure out when Nilly's going to be around.

Nilly, I'd been wondering if - assuming the weekend option for the 6-hour drive up from LA to SF is weekend-limited - whether it might not be the way to go to beg ND to sneak away from responsibilities early enough to ensure that you take off and get here well before sunset on Friday. That would fulfill the "no travelling on the Sabbath" rule, wouldn't it? And Saturday would be BBQ at my place, and after sundown - Sabbath over! - we'd take you for the nighttime tour of my ridiculously scenic city.

cues Geddy

It's a beauty way to go ...

"Hey man, ten bucks is ten bucks."