The campground my family built in the 1960s, ran and eventually sold during my childhood started out as a Christmas tree farm planted on old family pasture land. It turned out that not many people were willing to drive out to the middle of absolutely nowhere to buy a Christmas tree, so by the time I was a kid, the thousands of white pines they ( Read more... )

Was that a short year, or is it me? ( Read more... )

- The coolest thing I got for Christmas was the business card of an ER doctor at UCSF. ( Read more... )

Yay! A Christmas thunderstorm! Thanks, God! I didn't recognize the first peal; it's been years since I heard thunder. The sky is all weird looking and neat, too.

Trousers and I went to see a place on Saturday, the first one in this search cycle. Hayes & Baker, said it was a 2bdrm but actually a 3bdrm with an extra storage room, top floor, should be a quiet building. I'd be paying $25 less, he'd be paying $500 less. It's an old place, but was remodeled at some point without much love, so fixtures and doors ( Read more... )

- Nearly done with Xmas shopping. Have been enjoying finding neat things for people. It's nice to have enough money to do that ( Read more... )

Today I did some Fishmas shopping in Union Square and Chinatown. Near Union Square I saw a homeless looking guy leading a dog down the street. On the dog's back, a cat was balanced. On the cat's back, a white rat was balanced. I think he was asking for tips when tourists would photograph them. In Chinatown I walked past an elderly man playing the ( Read more... )

Does a short haircut mean women have gone off sex?

Both great names for bands. Thanks, Iranian morality police ( Read more... )

I spent a couple hours at City College taking the math placement exam and getting matriculated. Shockingly, I scored 90th percentile on basic arithmetic and 50th percentile in elementary algebra. Since I loathed it when I studied it and that was 13 years ago, these seem like pretty good scores. I can register for classes next week, when I will be ( Read more... )