so, in good news, i did not break my foot. i merely sprained it. Wednesday morning i called the advice nurse and got myself an appointment with sport injury at the main kaiser facility in SF. i went in for x-rays and they found nothing fractured or broken. I left with some pain medication, a fancy walking boot and a cane. i took two days off ( Read more... )

After a long hiatus, the klutz has returned. I managed to miss a step in the MUNI station last night and landed on my right foot hard. I hobbled myself home, soaked it in some epsom salt, iced and elevated it, took some ibuprofen. This morning it's still painful and I can't walk on it. I took some of the pain medicine I had leftover from the ( Read more... )

a plug for a high school classmate who is in the Broadway production of HAIR (Tony-award winning, btw). They were on Conan O'Brien on Monday night:

Bryce is the one in the wooly jacket who stands on Conan's desk. :)

I've been totally overdosing on volunteerism the last week or so.  I was out and about this week a lot due to the Convention being in town (+/- 20,000 architects), and volunteered three of the four days during the week at Moscone (mostly hanging at information desks and checking in other volunteers).  Last weekend, Saturday I was in West Oakland at ( Read more... )

I heart Raphael Saadiq. I mean, I liked the music before the show, and hadn't been to a live music concert in roughly forever, so I decided that even though I should be minding my spending, that I needed to go. I was gonna go even if no one else wanted to go; fortunately, Louise kept me company. We met for dinner beforehand -- tried a Korean ( Read more... )

You Are FAQ


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You Are Peanut Butter Sandwiches / Do-si-dos


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I had a hard day before I got to work this morning:

I slipped on the sidewalk going down the hill at Fillmore & Haight. Scraped up my knee under my pants, which I didn't realize until later. Fortunately, the pants were fine. Had I torn them, I would have gone home. OW.

Walking up the escalator out of the MUNI station, I stubbed my toe on the ( Read more... )

• I was amused by a reprint of a 1984 Mac ad on a CNET blog today. My cubemate remarked on how we used to boot computers off a floppy drive, specifically a 3-1/2 floppy disc. I asked if he had ever used one of the 5-1/4 inch diskettes... which led me to comment on learning computers with a Commodore 64, which he had never heard of. Am I old?
  
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