I’m visiting old friends, and they’re showing me around their new house in Santa Clara. While we reminisce, her husband starts cleaning the pool. He drags the net, on a long pole, slowly around the surface.
I make some quick remark about how it’s like a zen sand garden. I’m in the sun, shielding my face [...]
Kristin Lavransdatter: The Bridal Wreath
I ended up recommending this as juvenile fiction to a children’s bookseller in Baltimore. I read this at a young age, and remember it as a story of how she transgresses her parents’ desire for an arranged marriage in 1300s norway. Written in the 20s, by a woman who later won [...]
Day 7 on my East Coast journey, I’m recognizing more and more by relief, what defines me as a Westerner. For one, the errant cold breeze that can come by you at any time in San Francisco, and necessitates sweaters be accessible at all times. Second, I just can’t feel right training through 8 states [...]
(sang to the tune of My Little Pony)
I setup two customized ringtones! w00t! I heard a little bird say it at my geekfest at Pilsner Inn the other night, and it led me to do some heavy online research. This thread - not just the post, which I find cryptic, but the entire 30-thread post, [...]
Just finished reading Penelope Trunk’s 9/11 Memoir. I had no idea she was in the heart of it. Reading that reminded me of my experience of the day, when you think of yourself at the same moment, 2000 miles away.
I was on a rare break between West Coast contracts and grounded. The place where I [...]
So I’ve had some bumps with my new iPhone purchase. Namely, either I or some wacko AT&T user interface bug got my phone number wrong. I had to get a new SIM and re-activate. Now it is 100% full working order, and after sitting at Pilsner Inn last night with two other power-users, I have [...]
Took the ferry Friday over to Sausalito. It’s the best $7.50 I’ve spent in a while. If you catch the 5:30 you’ve got great lighting all the way over, and it’s a really short ferry ride (which I think is a good thing.) Then my friend picked me up and we went over to Tink’s [...]
A few months ago I was in a trial, on the jury. I didn’t end up deliberating because of a nasty debilitating cold- just wanted to put those two words in the same sentence! As true stories go, this one was beyond odd. To make this a cohesive story I’ve interpreted events. So it’s quasi-non-fiction, [...]
As I was lying on my back, a little white wine buzz going on, watching little white clouds stream by overhead, and listening to Midsummer Night’s Dream, I decided this was the most ideal holiday ever.
Any holiday where you lie on your back (no innuendo here) repeatedly… two days before I again [...]
Shared an image: Lunch in north beach
Wednesday at 16:33
someone added a few veritical blocks to Russian HIll, I swear
Wednesday at 16:33
Favorited Gillian Welch – Dear Someone
Wednesday at 16:33
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