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Jury Duty & the Social Death that is SOMA
I’m on my third day of the incredibly inefficient system of the jury selection process. I’m at the 6th & Bryant courthouse. Next to my court room, another courtroom has a sign on the door: No drinking. No eating. No reading. No newspapers. No sleeping. No talking. Pretty much sums up my life, and why…
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Whale Watching Video
{vidavee id=”1106″ w=”320″ } I was excited about the whales potentially sailing by, so I ran out to Aquatic Park and took some movies. I thought I saw some whales cresting out near the Coast Guard boat, but the movies don’t do it justice. In fact, I can’t see anything I saw with my naked…
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Sailing to Berkeley
We went out around noon from Sausalito and then berthed in Berkeley. Then, set sail from Berkeley around 10am and met Javier at the dock at Fish! Restaurant, around 2:30PM. Tooled around the harbor there doing wacky crazy heeling, drinking beer & chips, and general crazy stuff. Then docked around 5pm. Cleaned up the boat,…
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Swimming in the Ocean
I just had this gut feeling yesterday morning that I didn’t want to go swimming. I wasn’t sure what it was. One friend got sick and couldn’t go, but before I could cancel it, had a discussion with another friend who was really excited, as it was her first time. So I rallied. We met…
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Playing Pebble Beach & Being a WASC
Walking out of work on Friday my carpool buddies were talking about what they were doing for Mother’s Day: a card, flowers, a phone call, an SMS, etc. My mom wanted to play golf. She’s a good player, same with my dad, and I suck. My dad was in Golfing Army, or that’s how I…
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Not a Yard Sale!!!
I had to interrupt this woman on her cell phone to tell her this wasn’t a yard sale. We were just cleaning. We had a free table, with stuff like… a full cat paraphenalia-scratching post, kitty litter pan, cover & rake- fireplace irons, plastic cups, oh treasures galore. It was like “flip this garage.” The…
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Carpe Diem
I should probably write this on sf-metblogs, but what they hey. Went to Caffe Trieste twice yesterday, during one of the hottest days I’ve ever experienced in SF. Being in North Beach and being hot is no unique thing- but it being hot the entire day, into the night. I had this tiny interchange with…
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Tourette’s
So I had an insanely bad day yesterday- woke up late, to the power out, and my smoke alarm chirping a few feet from my head. Took a shower in the dark, then made coffee via gas stove and filter. Ran to a local cafe to writeup this review of a marketing book. Then sat…
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Stitch in Time
I was taking a fifteen minute break by walking across the street to get a double-latte. So you want to increase your productivity. You take 15 minutes to get some beverage that will make you work twice as hard. Is that better than working for 30 minutes slower, than 15 minutes faster? I’m thinking a…
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The Flow of Stuff
I was cleaning for the cleaner, and noticed a brown paper bag, at the bottom of a pile of bags, in my closet. It contained a few baseball hats, a few CDs, and a very, very small dark blue hoodie. I remember sister #2 (in age order) saying to me- but I couldn’t remember time…