There are lots of worse things to do than listen to Dvorak symphonies at the volume you get in the front row.

Puppy hangs out with car 1856 at Mkt/New Montgomery...blocked by war protesters. Sure beats the hell out of working.

One of my favorite ex-Ebisu chefs is back working in the City@Miyabi! + Owner of the burrito place next door (opened during the '89 quake) remembers me well. :)

What a pretty view...looking down O'Shaughnessy Canyon through the rain into the brighter sunlight beyond...everything all soft and green with spring (winter?)!

ETA: *shakes head at self* Glen Canyon

Genki crepe with nutella, strawberries and cheesecake. Very yummy! Even if the staff commented on it not being one of my usuals. Oh, soooo good!

That's nice! I come back from a weekend away and the red leafed plums are all in full bloom!

*sigh* This was going to be catchup post of sorts, but I am just wiped, and the sake with dinner didn't help.

'night.

On the Boat, weather very warm, conditions very beautiful, populance very excited, running low on beads, do not want to disappoint, please send resupply!

I wish this was a post of unalloyed joy...but it isn't...while we can start digging the USA out of the hole it has been placed over the last 8 years, I loathe the fact that we, in California, chose to take away people's civil rights and enshrine discrimination in our State Constitution.

I was talking to a passenger a couple days ago, an out gay man, who had been walking a sign around...and he said his parent had been planning on voting for 8. It wasn't until he pointed out that a mere 12 years before he was born, they couldn't legally marry in California, until another activist California court decided on Brown vs. Lippold. My parent married about 15 years after that decision...although they could have married in North Carolina, which only restricted marriages between blacks and whites.

I really wonder how many of the 8 supporters (at least those eligible to vote in CA), this great melting pot of melting pots would have been banned from marriage, or not been born because of the statutes?

Sixty Years Ago, Prop 8 would have said this:

Only marriage between a man and a womanmembers of the same race is valid or recognized in California

No on Prop 8

All else pales in comparison to the current Mount Laundrymore!

Potential loads = 8 excuse me, 9

Planned laundry tonight: 3

Progress (sorted/in wash/in dryer/finished): 9/3/3/3

Maltese Falcon, a sailing yacht.

Done:

Got some image productivity and teasing going.
Got some errands and shopping done
Installed the vent fan in the #1 bathroom
Picked up packages
Carpentry - trim pieces
Pay Bills

Not Done:

Packages to mail - fail...too late
Sort Laundry
Wash Laundry
Trail Report work

Time to go out and get going...a nice brisk walk to get some food and caffeine might get me going...lolling around in front of the computer certainly isn't!

ETA1: It seems to have helped a bit...I pulled my camera out of my backpack!

ETA2: Music for the day appears to be the three Tchaikovsky ballets...Prelude of Swan Lake now.

To Do:

Copy hiking data from altimeter watch
Treat gear for poison oak exposure
Sort dirty clothes
Wash clothes
Download images from camera/recharge batteries/etc.
Update Trail Reports page[1]
Turn the music up higher, open doors and windows and share with neighbors
Drop mail, pick up packagesOops, Columbus Day!
Wash hair
Post some streetcar pics
Garbage
Carpentry-trim pieces
Select/winnow images for contribution to CHAOS slide show
Select/prepare and share Scotchtoberfest teaser pics

[1] I thought I had given this away to someone else, but it seems to not to be happening, so, I'm provisionally taking some of it back. :rolleyes:

Thanks to kristine_smith for the link!

It's good to be back! Vacation too short, but if I have to come to work, it might as well be on a nice day like this!

Things that make me smile: A pickup pulling a Porta-Potty with a long banner of TP waving gracefully in the air behind it.

Installed (almost) some shelving in the refrigerator alcove. The project needs another hour or so to get it to a point where it can be left alone. Yes, it also needs to be disassembled, sanded and painted and reassembled, but I never planned on doing that this weekend. We will now be able to have bread accessible to us and NOT to Lucifer. Also, the tupperware that holds his food will be less accessible to him.

Umm, yeah. On my weekend, anyway.

I went down to the Central California coast to meet a commodorified and hang out...been way too long since we've gotten together.

We saw birds!


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