Live from Savannah

After 3/4 of a year of craziness and not having either the time or energy to play around with the cyber side of life, things are finally getting back to where I like them. We drove Doc's parents down to Savannah for a long weekend and so far have had a wonderful time. Our first night down here we took the advice of the hotel bartender and stopped in at the Olde Pink House for dinner. To keep it simple, we ate in the downstairs Planter's Tavern instead of the main restaurant. They serve the same menu, just a bit less frufru, and I have to say it was one of the best meals I've had in my life. We all picked something from the appetizer menu rather than going to the full menu. Between the four of us we had crab cakes on fried green tomatoes, shrimp and grits, jumbo scallops, she-crab soup, salad with fried oysters, and real keylime pie with house made real whipped cream. There wasn't a loser in the group - even the mini biscuits and cornbread muffins were perfect. We're going back tonight before trekking out into Haunted Savannah.

Just for the trip, we went down to Best Buy and bought ourselves a Garmin nuvi 255W. We have named her Garminia, and she's proved to be a handy little gal to have around. She got us through detours without breaking a sweat and found us gas stations, CVS, and Starbucks immediately upon request (though I haven't had a chance to stop at Starbucks yet, Vic's coffee on River Street is just as good for a late night latte). We love our little Garminia and hope to take her traveling often.

As a side note of the anime kind, if you don't already own it, go buy Vandread now. Funimation has acquired the license from Geneon and released the whole series in a box set. It's one of the funnest and most underrated shows ever released in R1, wrongly labeled as a harem by a lot of folks even if they've never seen it. There's also a lot of confusion tossed about regarding the couplings in the show, again mostly by those who have never seen it. Ignore these people and go enjoy one of Gonzo's better series. Funi retained the BangZoom! dub, and it's one of their best efforts. I don't typically like dubs, but we've been watching it again recently, this time entirely in English. My only complaint with it is the way they pronounce "Dita." That says a lot right there.