Often, after I drop the kids off at daycare, I take a shortcut by walking across the baseball diamonds at Bushrod Park here in North Oakland ( Read more... )

I just listened to a traffic update on KCBS as research for his novel. That's probably not actually a first - but it seems like it should be.

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This week, Casey and the kids are out of town - they're visiting her family in Connecticut, while I'm stuck here with work and all that. Needless to say, it kinda sucks. Yesterday after work, I decided to distract myself by going into San Francisco and making a trip to Amoeba - which, for non-Bay Areans, is the world's most kick-ass record store - ( Read more... )

You know, it's remarkable how little I say here these days. It's a combination of things, I suppose - I guess I sort of got over the whole idea of sharing everything on the Internet years ago, back in my online journal days. Especially after I met Casey and fell in love. Suddenly my personal life wasn't just mine, so I was less comfortable with ( Read more... )

Right now, there are two Giants games on tv. Today's actual San Francisco Giants game ended a few hours ago, but right now, there's a San Jose Giants game on (the SJ Giants being one of the team's minor league affiliates), and on another channel there's a "classic" Giants-Dodgers game from 1989 ( Read more... )

Yesterday was our fifth wedding anniversary. To celebrate, we went to Chez Panisse, which is one of the most famous and important restaurants in the Bay Area - and it's also just really damn good ( Read more... )

Is the fact that 10,000,000 people are saying some variation of, "maybe someday California will catch up to Iowa ( Read more... )

1) The Great Gatsby - a slim volume featuring cardboard characters, an unconvincing love story, and the barest outlines of a plot. Fitzgerald was pretty good as a stylist, but nowhere near good enough for this book to warrant its reputation ( Read more... )

So, I have cellulitis, a skin infection caused in this case by athlete's foot. I have prescriptions for a ten-day course of antibiotics and tylenol with codeine for the pain, and that should take care of it. The most difficult part is that I'm supposed to avoid walking as much as possible, and I walk 4-5 miles a day on average ( Read more... )