This coming Saturday night, TFS/LFS is holding their slightly delayed 2008 Holiday dinner event; I get to accompany E. over to Morristown for an evening of dining at Arthur’s Tavern (ok, it’s technically in Morris Plains, but whatever…) So a great big thank you goes out to every person who financed a Toyota or Lexus in 2008 – I will be thinking of you while I enjoy my medium-rare steak and a large glass of Fetzer “Barrel Select” Cabernet Sauvignon. Of course, it was a down year for the auto industry in general and even Toyota brought out the red ink for this past quarter, so this does not quite compare to 2007’s Holiday Fest when we spent the weekend in Mystic, CT and took in some gambling at Mohegan Sun, again courtesy of all of those Toyota and Lexus buyers. Oh well, here’s to better times in 2009.
In the meantime, we’re trying to squeeze in a side-trip to the cinema after dinner, since it’s been like, I don’t know, maybe 5 years since we saw a movie in an actual movie theater alone,just the two of us (I think we saw the first Pirates of the Caribbean by accident, after intending to catch some other movie that was either sold out or we missed the showing, but Johnny Depp made it a pretty serendipitous viewing.) I’m leaning toward Slumdog Millionaire over in Chatham. Anyone have any suggestions?