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April 2003

Water

Oh good God. Fortunately, none of the restaurants I frequent have the audacity to ask me “what kind” of water I want with my meal. I’ve also been very good about not patronizing coffee shops which prefer to argue that they don’t have a “large” size rather than just sell me a fucking cup of coffee…

In my annual review at work this week, my boss commented that I seem much less bitter and cynical than I used to lately. Just thought I’d throw that in…

Snow in the Sierra

Going up into the Sierra for the weekend to watch it snow and stuff. Lest anyone get the wrong idea here, though, the closest we’ll be getting to “roughing it” is the fact that we’ll have a VCR but no DVD player…

I do not camp…

OK, Maybe No Snow…

Home again. We didn’t actually see any snow, but there was lots of rain. So we played Monopoly and watched movies and cooked out (there’s something wonderfully unwholesome about cooking out when it’s 25 degrees and pouring down rain outside) and it was a good weekend all in all…

Unrelated (I think): why have I been starving all day?

Updates

I’ve disappeared for so long this time that people are starting to ask if I’m alive or dead. Since convincing them otherwise would require actually answering email (something I seem wholly incapable of doing lately), I’ve decided it’s time to set the record straight here. Today, I feel somewhere in between…

No, don’t worry. There’s nothing wrong. I’ve just been horribly busy this week, commuting to San Mateo by day and working on a major site redesign for a client by night. Both should be done this week — just in time for me to go on jury duty. Woo hoo…

By the way, penis anyone?

By way of updates:

  • Had a brief stop by Berkeley last weekend to hit the assorted used media stores. It’s good to visit Berkeley once in a while; it makes San Francisco seem so — how shall I say it — rational and sensible by comparison. Which ain’t easy. By the way, is there any truth to that rumor that Berkeley is considering setting aside 20% of its street parking for cars which are valued at less than $3500? No, of course not, but you believed it for a second, didn’t you?
  • On Sunday, we watched some of the dismantling of the Central Freeway overpass crossing Market Street. I may drive up and see if it’s completely gone this afternoon. My computer and I need some quality time apart…
  • Self-indulgence dilemma of the week: deciding whether to unwind with a selection from the new Family Guy box set or the recently-acquired New York box set…
  • Mark’s been visiting the parents all weekend, but I have no naughty little secrets to share; I spent the entire weekend curled up with Dreamweaver and ImageReady, and my biggest extravagances were dinner at IHOP with Jamie last night and a trip to Target, where I bought one two-dollar bag of cookies…
  • Things I hate this month: the IRS, the Superior Court of San Francisco, and the Department of Parking and Traffic…
  • Entertaining website of the week: The History of San Francisco Bay Area Freeway Development…
  • The newest beta of Safari is addressing most of my concerns nicely. Of course, all you Windoze sufferers can’t use it. Too bad…

I’ll try to make the updates a little more frequent soon. Or at least a little more entertaining…

Randomly Tuesday

So my jury duty report date is tomorrow, and now I’m pissed because the location has been changed from the Hall of Justice (just around the corner, lunch at home, etc.) to the courthouse in Civic Center (farther than I want to walk but too close to bother taking transit). I imagine that if I make it as far as jury selection, I’ll have some interesting comments about the whole process in a day or two. But I’d rather skip it…

Random:

  • Calling out to me from the fridge: leftover Manwich (actually the lackluster generic version), Olallieberry cheesecake (courtesy of Mark‘s mom and dad), and aerosol whipped cream. No, I’m not pregnant…
  • Just a thought: has anyone ever seen one of those ever so environmentally-correct Keep Tahoe Blue stickers on any vehicle which wasn’t a really huge SUV or monster truck? Just curious…
  • Jeez, is it really only Tuesday?