I am back. Italy was beautiful. I ate at my first Michelin-bestarred restaurant, and it was jawdroppingly good; I can only imagine what it's like to hit one of the handful of places the Michelin reviewers think merit three stars. I was hailed on. Unlike one of my friends on the trip, Alitalia did not lose my luggage. I saw some famous (and often very good) art. I got sunburnt, but not badly. I bought a sweater, solely so I can sneeringly announce that I bought it at this super little shop off the Piazza d'Espagne in Roma. I drank a great deal of excellent red wine and ate a great deal of gelato. Everything was very nice.
Of course, my first major outage in three years occured while I was off enjoying myself; my beloved host had to switch ISPs, and I was not around to fiddle with my DNS registry. Sorry to go off the air; it won't happen again, be assured, until the universe realizes that I am again away from computers for an extended period.
Posted by steve at September 29, 2004 03:10 PM