4/20, Heh heh

I giggled when I realized today's date. Because I have the sense of humor of a 7th-grader. So, do all the pot heads meet up in the Haight for an all-day celebration?

I spent a luxurious day on the couch watching movies and didn't drive anywhere or attend any baby showers in bars or sit in traffic or do anything I didn't want/have to do. I guess that's an appropriate way to celebrate 4/20.

Happy Friday

Sunnyday

On our way to Alameda Point we witnessed this horrific disaster - a massacre of countless, innocent gummy bears who appeared to have been hanging out at a local gas station just before the weather turned fatally warm.

Looks like some tried to escape from what must have been ground zero (a magnifying glass?) but were overtaken by the heat and stopped in their sticky tracks. Devastating. Something you don't get over easily.

We continued on our way to what is still a blissfully empty ghost town to ride our bikes. On my supercool Electra Townie, I was cruising in comfort and style and could have stayed out there all day.

Heading back home, we realized it's only a matter of time before that land is developed and it will be a ghost town no longer. I hope future development stays caught up in red tape for decades.

Puttering Around the House

Wonderfully mellow weekend. No rodent activity and all seems stable for the moment. Watched movies, caught up on sleep, shot photos, read the paper, did crosswords, read magazines, cooked, enjoyed breakfast treats and coffee at Peet's, played with Henry and the cats, and stocked up on stuff from Trader Joe's.

We watched Layer Cake on PPV and it was fantastic, until the very end. I guess on one hand they wanted us to know that crime never pays, or no one ever gets out alive, but on the other hand, it's a crappy way to end a movie after your audience becomes invested in a character. Feels kinda cheap, like the director just wanted to stick it to us - gotcha!

Doing Nothing...

...Has meant doing way more this weekend than I'd planned. Took Ninja to the vet where we had to leave him for 5 hours until he would give up a wee urine sample for testing. Now we're enduring the hissing and aggression as the other cats try to detect that old familiar Ass Monkey smell underneath the scary vet odors.

Then there was weeding, raking, sorting, cooking, driving, shopping, removing the old Dish hardware off the house (worst customer service experiences, ever), and cleaning the backyard - not nearly as much sleeping as I'd planned.

I grabbed some pics off my phone from last week, taken before and while at the conference in Seattle. The 415 flashbacks were everywhere.


The only open (reserved) parking place left that morning at the Bart lot.


A number posted inside the Bart car I was in that afternoon.


The number of a room in the Seattle Library where we attended the conference.
A fun coincidence, but a tad eerie.

Superbore

Another Superbowl has passed quietly into, well, the past. We decided early on that Seattle can't win a Superbowl - they have coffee, gorgeous scenery, and Shmick's happy hour where you can buy shrimp cocktail or the same burger served in the dining room for $8 for just $1.95.

On business trips to Seattle we always made time for Schmick's and would want to order two burgers for $1.95 and throw one of them on the floor - because they're only $1.95. Drinking too much too early in the day can make that seem like a fine idea.

Without a Superbowl win, what else does Pittsburg have? I've never been there, so I don't know, but from all I've seen in the movie All The Right Moves (RIP Chris Penn), it seems like they *need* to win the Superbowl.

But who cares? I just burned three paragraphs on that. Sorry. It must be obvious - I didn't have much going on this weekend, and it was fantastic.

Watched The Upside of Anger on HBO HD. Great movie - probably the best work Kevin Costner's ever done. And there's a dinner table scene that was so good, I yelped when it happened & scared the cat right off my lap.

Took a trip to Target for all the requisite household supplies and later, trimmed my hair. Thought about messing around with highlights, but you can really mess that up, and if you do, your stylist gets to make all sorts of fun of you while charging you a shitload of money to fix it.

So, I should really go now & get back to all the stuff we've got going on right now.