diptych # 165 ~ the carrot and the stick weekend

punishment / reward ~ Saratoga Springs, NY • click to embiggen

Spent a long weekend (Friday-Sunday, my 7th straight weekend away from home) in Saratoga Springs - just outside the SE border of the Adirondack PARK - where the wife attended a conference / workshop. Going along with the wife, functioning as her arm candy, has both its punishments and rewards as illustrated in the above diptych. It shouldn't take a genius to figure out which is which.

Normally in such cases, I find something interesting to pass the time while she's conferencing her heart out. Golf was on the list but, unfortunately, the time allotted to that activity was spent having new rear brake pads put on the Kizashi.

FYI, stay tuned tomorrow for my picture account of my dinner last Thursday evening with Tsering Phunysok, Thangka artist and personal tailor to the Dali Lama, and together with the personal assistant to the Dali Lama's emissary to North America. Amazing stuff and most certainly more fun than a barrel of monkeys lawyers.