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I'm back in Atlanta, safe and sound as ever. No real attempt at LJ was made over the last four days, needless to say.

A few notes:

1. We have a place to live! It has hardwood floors, two internal staircases, gas heat (separate for each floor), a woodburning fireplace, a balcony, and sharks with frikkin' lasers. Okay, it's damned close to being a perfect house for us. A little pricier than we'd have liked, but we knew that would be an issue going in. We're happy.

2. I ate food. A lot of it. The best was a trip with mgrasso to A Savory Place in Arlington for lunch on Saturday. I had a wonderful Cuban sandwich (the Cuban, btw, is the only sandwich on which it is acceptable to put pickles; any other sandwich containing pickles, including fast food burgers, is an abomination), and a nice cup of sweet potato bisque. mgrasso had jambalaya. I also ate a lovely breakfast with my hosts (Ellen and Mark) on Monday morning at a local Arlington place whose name I can't remember. I had a yummy Irish benedict (eggs benedict with corned beef hash instead of canadian bacon).

The lowlight, food-wise, was dinner with jmspencer and his lovely companion Amanda on Sunday night. The company was wonderful, of course, but our attempts to go to Fire and Ice, Bertucci's, and John Harvard's were all met with ludicrously long waits (it didn't help that Harvard Square's Oktoberfest was that day). So we ended at a greasy spoon at which the food was okay, and the service was awful beyond belief. I wish I could remember the name so I could caution folks to avoid it.

3. I spent hours hanging out at Pandemonium Books, and you have no idea how hard it was not to spend money. I mean, I knew that the new Neil Gaiman and Kage Baker books were out. But I hadn't realized that stephen_dedman's Shadowrun novel was out, or that Diana Wynne-Jones was even working on a new Chrestomanci novel. I easily could have dropped $300 if it weren't for the fact that we're trying to not acquire things before the move. And because we don't have $300 to spare.

4. The MBTA is to MARTA as Hal Jordan is to G'nort. Although G'nort at least tries to be competent.

5. I really like the Delta terminal at Logan. It has a seafood place, Fuddrucker's, and Legal's Test Kitchen. And two Dunkin' Donuts, because Massachusetts state law requires a Dunkin' Donuts every 100 feet.

ETA 1: The restaurant to avoid is The Greenhouse.

ETA 2: The soup I ate was a bisque made from sweet potatoes, not a potato bisque that happens to be sweet.