Some very good friends of ours stayed with us over the past week. They enjoy shopping in antique stores and thrift stores and so do we, so that's what we did. Personally I prefer thrift store shopping because items are much less likely to be priced according to their actual value. I can never afford things in real antique stores ( Read more... )

When one moves into a neighborhood of friendly and generous old folk one inherits a certain responsibility to help them out when they need it ( Read more... )

I went to BevMo on my lunch break to buy some white wine, rye whisky, bitters, and Kahlua. Heading towards the checkout I passed the soda shelves and noticed something called Manhattan Special, an espresso coffee soda. "That looks like a tasty and refreshing beverage" I thought, and placed a bottle in my shopping basket. I paid for my purchases, ( Read more... )

Wife and I were at the Jack London Square farmers' market on Sunday and noticed that both Dirty Girl Produce and Happy Boy Farms had stalls, and we thought they ought to be right next to each other. It would be funnier.

We've been married for five years today, and it gets better all the time. Speaking of which it's late and I ought to get to bed.

Alright, over a month ago I said I was "more likely" to get back to LJ now that it's easier on my BlackBerry ( Read more... )

I got up early(ish) this morning and tried to remember the phrase "early to bed, early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise" but what I got first was "early to rise, early to bed, makes a man healthy, wealthy and dead". Not that either of those is necessarily true ( Read more... )

I seem to only get chance to check livejournal every two or three weeks or so and then, of course, I don't have time to read back through everything that happened since last time I logged on, even though it appears that the number of active members is a tiny fraction of what it was when I checked in almost daily ( Read more... )

I love my son more than I could ever have imagined loving anyone ( Read more... )

Yes indeed, Thrash Metal was alive and well in Oakland tonight at Slaughter by the Water. Unfortunately yours truly wasn't feeling too good and couldn't enjoy it to the fullest, which was a shame because it's the first time in ages I've got out to a metal gig. There will be other gigs. I stayed long enough to see Zombie Holocaust because I know ( Read more... )

Thankfully Vaughan slept well last night, but he's an early riser. Then he takes a lot of naps, as babies do ( Read more... )