I've been to alot of cities, but San Francisco is the finest, I think. I love the houses and the cablecars and the hills. We were able to hang out at Fisherman's Wharf and Pier 39 a bit, (with the sea lions) go up Coit Tower, (and see a hummingbird) tour around on the MUNI, go to Castro Street, (there is a big rainbow flag at the Harvey Milk ( Read more... )

I see ( Read more... )

Obama!

Obama!

We're back from San Francisco. My favorite city in the world. But, it's nice to be home. I'm going to Oregon on Wednesday. Another cross-country trip.

Hillary finally concedes. Was that a concession? In other news, the New England Patriots have finally conceded the Super Bowl to the New York Giants.

Happy 125th birthday to the Brooklyn Bridge, (1883-2008) !

We're off to the West Coast! I'll be offline all week! See ya!

Ami and I went to her cousins' graduation party yesterday. I was the only non-Italian there. I haven't seen that much food since...

(Ponder)

I've never seen that much food.

We're going to San Francisco tomorrow!

Yesterday evening we went to Chittenango (near Syracuse) to attend the first night of the "Ozfest" which commemorates the fact that L. Frank Baum, the author of the Wizard of Oz books was born there in 1856. The sidewalks through the small downtown are painted yellow, several businesses have names like "The Emerald City Cafe" and there are ( Read more... )

Ami and I walk in to the doctor's office for her appointment and the nurse asks about me, "Oh is that your dad?"

O.O

(I'm 41 and she's 26)

Eighty-nine years and six months after the armistice of November 11th, 1918, the last World War I veteran of Austria-Hungary has died in Germany. Franz Kunstler, 107, was born in the Kingdom of Hungary, (in a part of eastern Hungary now in Romania) which was part of the Hapsburg's Austrian Empire. He was in an artillery unit that saw action on ( Read more... )

I saw the new Indiana Jones movie, and thought the concept was kind of interesting but was annoyed that the Russians were turned into the cartoonish villains of the week, (what's next? Arabs? Somebody needed to replace the Nazis). Also, why is it that anyone with even a hint of pigment in their skin is turned into an ultra-violent, primitive, ( Read more... )