Nautical Expressions

Posted by banane on March 6th, 2006 — in language

Cap’t Engine Cleaner emailed me “break the lead” and in researching nautical expressions trying to figure out what she meant, I got hooked. Now I get to test your knowledge:
match the words to the definitions:
scuttlebutt [...]

Planning Your Weekend in SF, Cover Bands, Scoring Free Newspapers

Posted by banane on March 5th, 2006 — in local color

Weekends
Being a “live-in-SF” bay area person, you meet certain… challenges… in planning your weekend. This is how mine evolved:
– conversation with Mom about going to her house, and parents coming to mine, in a kind of cheap vacation swap. They have a nice pad in Monterey, so we would have both gotten the benefit of [...]

Yank Sing

Posted by banane on March 3rd, 2006 — in local color

Yank Sing
The phone was ringing at the ungodly hour of 9am, then again at 10am, and I was sure it was a crisis in marketing land. But no, it was a friend inviting me to enjoy dim sum! So I hopped on the old bike and arrived there in ten minutes. This is the dim [...]

SF Bike Loop, the Tee Off

Posted by banane on March 1st, 2006 — in fitness, local color

SF Bike Loop, The Tee Off
From 1:00 to 4:00 I was doing the above bike ride, on my crappy old bike. I will do the same route again with my new bike and compare! One problem, of many with crappy old bike, is that I only have three workable gears and they’re all at the [...]

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