Single Speed Stella

It's totally true that when you get pregnant, people are gonna start telling you what you should do or shouldn't do and basically tell you all the horrible, crazy, doom and gloom stories about babies and childbirth and how they heard about all these foods and products and practices that will MAKE YOUR KID RETARDED or some other travesty....

STFU hippies

I can't think of one single thing that hippies approve of. Even the air is bad for me. If I followed every edict laid out, I would live in a mud hut in some remote village and eat only roots that I dug from the ground with my own hands. If I hear the word 'organic' one more time I will go bat-shit.

The human civilization has spent CENTURIES studying and learning and developing - and I, for one, really dig the fact that we have, oh, running water, toilets, hospitals, doctors, scientists, and have eradicated things like the plague, found vaccines for lots of other icky stuff, and have a plentiful supply of food, clothing, and MacBooks. So, no, I don't want to 'get back to nature' and stop wearing makeup, shaving my legs, and start hugging trees and paying a ton of money for 'organic' food. I like hot showers, shaving, cosmetics (thank you Sephora!), soap, perfume, and eyeliner. My womb-critter is pretty active, and from what i've been told, really, really healthy. I know this because, thank you science, I saw him on an ultrasound. I had my blood tested to make sure there was no funky genetic things or virus things floating around, and I have a network of doctors to call on if I have any questions or concerns. It's pretty great. I like knowing that when he's born a whole cadre of doctors, who have dedicated their lives to studying and knowing this stuff, will be there.

All i'm saying, really, is thanks for your kind concern. Your worldview is probably pretty awesome from the place you stand, and I bet you wake up everyday feeling just fantastic. And that's great. I'm really stoked that you're happy and healthy. (I totally am, no joke.) I'm gonna feel just fine when I touch up my roots to appease my vanity tonight, and i'm really going to enjoy my latte in the morning. When i'm working on my fancy MacBook at work, i'm gonna be stoked that I cleaned the desk with Lysol and there's air conditioning. Also, the kid has a fondness for cookies and Starbucks pastries. I'll feel pretty great about that, too.

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It makes me happy....

I take the cue from
Certain people I know
I use the cue
And then I
Hand it on to you

And when I swing it
So, it catches his eye ...
(Weren't you there ?
- You'd have died !)

I trust the views of
Certain people I know
They look at Danger
And they
LAUGH THEIR HEADS OFF

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I swear I was meant to be a cloistered nun...sans the nun part.

I love the holidays, but i hate the noise factor. In general, I love love love quiet, peaceful, and calm. It's why i'll never live in a city and don't go to a lot of parties...it drives me nuts! The more people talking at once, and the more background noise (like TV's and radios and whatever) the more wound up I get. Even something as mundane as talking on a phone drives me nuts...

My husband is the opposite, he loves noise and excitement and parties and all that stuff...I guess we balance out that way. For Christmas, he's getting me a set of really good headphones to wear at work...i'm such a dork that I listen to ambient sounds, you know, so I can feel like i'm coding and/or designing in a rainforest. Because, yeah...that's where computer stuff gets done. The rainforest.

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Please, please , please vote today, if you haven't already. Unless you're voting Republican. You have a free pass to stay home and do stuff. I'm just sayin'. I'd like our economy back and no more war, that's all.

Snark aside, GO VOTE!!!

please.

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And it does feel like autumn, which is a-ok because though I love summer, autumn is the prettiest time of year here in good 'ol California...

Autumn also means school time, i'm taking a couple of classes to I can kick more ass and take more names in the workplace. So, if I disappear from the blogosphere for a few days at a time, i'm probably really busy sleeping...

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I spent the last hour at work thinking about this burrito I wanted to make, and how great it would be, especially with the orange sauce I bought at La Vic, but it wasn't that great, really. I ended up throwing half of it away in dismay.

The week is already half over, it's a Wednesday and it's also my ma's birthday...i'm taking her out for an early dinner tonight, because, really, I have no idea what else to get her. And who doesn't like a quiet dinner? I can't think of a one...mostly because i'm far too lazy...

My laziness has been getting worse in the evenings...usually, i'm a cleaning machine, or a crazy-i'm-making-wacky-art-machine...and now, well..now i'm just a lounge-around-and-be-lazy-machine.

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Now, there are prolly a ton of 15 year olds shaking their heads and saying, "Well, duhv's...old people are so slow..."
But whatever,

Yes, that bastion of teenage sluttery, Wet Seal, has the jeans that rival the ones I found in Scotland. While others' may say, "You can get skinny jeans all over , these are $25 . So there.

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...into signing up for a fundraiser golf tournament. As in, i'll be playing 18 holes of golf. Now, I spent a summer working as a beer-slinger at a golf course, and there's some things I learned from it;

• Golf really isn't my thing
• Golf is expensive
• Some people actually take it pretty seriously

Golf courses also usually have dress codes, and so i'll also probably have to get a polo shirt. Sigh.

This morning Nate and I are on our way to the driving range, yes....to hit golf balls...a happy Sunday morning to ya!

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...looks like they have inhabitants that understand how I feel in the trailer park...

We are truly one, oh yes indeed...

Whatever you do today, it's FRIDAY! Make it rad!...

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...or, should say, my weekends;

Yesterday was a whole lotta good-times-fun-times, and like all good-times-fun-times, I pay for it the day after. BUT, the party is not ending today, oh no...we've got stuff planned for the morning, and this evening...this evening is -

MASTERS OF METAL!!!

It's going to be like eating a whole mess of Frito Pies and washing them down with Pabst...cheesy and bad for you, but oh-so-delicious! Yep, i'm buying a T-shirt.

Whatever your plan is today, make it a good one...It's beautiful days outside, go out, have a beer (or wine, if you're classy) and take a gander at the landscape...

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Are the best, ever! Saturdays are rad no matter what, but then knowing that you have a three day weekend - that makes it all the more rad!!

Sleevage gets to happen today, Indian food happens, all around radness will happen today...

Depending on how the day goes, I may try to swing by Fry's, or somewhere comparable, and find a new camera...

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My camera is totally busted. I actually didn't break it, per se, it has just reached the end of a long and illustrious life...i'm pretty bummed, 'cos now i'm camera-less, but i guess it's a chance to get a new, exciting one....

So, it's Monday - time to rock...new week, new seat, new stuff on my list of stuff to do!

And, oh yeah, I just bought the tickets....!

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I am a true champion. Yesterday, I thought, "maybe I should just go into work...i'm jet-lagged, but it's not all that bad...i'll just take a little nap first..."

So, I fell asleep at 2 pm and woke up at 6 am today. That's 16 hours of glorious, wonderful sleep.

I have pictures and stories aplenty about Scotland, but i've been checking my work emails, and my now flattened bank account, and need to get my nose to the grindstone...

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No pictures this time around, i'm finally back from Scotland and i'm BEAT.

Being a Californian through and through...being a SILICON VALLEY Californian, that is, I just assume that there will be free WiFi and Interweb and doodads wherever I go. Not true, as I found out. My intent had been to be online whilst in Scotland...yeah. Didn't happen.

I'm SO HAPPY to be back, so happy...I hella heart the Bay Area y'all...now, it's time to sleep....

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Today I will be on a plane all day. Literally, all day. I won't be officially off a plane until 2:35pm tomorrow....

My entire Tuesday, and half of Wednesday, will be either in an airport or on a plane.

I used to be terrified of flying, but now I see it as one, big, boring sit-fest with no fresh air, cramped bathrooms, an shitty food.

My biggest fear now is a delayed or cancelled flight, airports are not the most interesting places to be for hours on end....

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...usually has a WAY better time than the company who doesn't. We had our second outing to one of the more flavorful semi-dive bars, The Sports Page, and it was good times...despite the phone call where my husband said, "I'll be home a little late, i'm at the emergency room..." !!!????!!?!

Nate and the hand grinder had a little argument, and the hand grinder gave him a little love-bite on his knuckle - he's totes fine, he got to get those crazy liquid stitches...

It's another glorious Saturday, and I am doing laundry and getting stuff cleaned up for our trip. I don't like the art of traveling, but then the memories always end up being worth it...

Other than that, I plan on having a rockin' Saturday indeed!

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...of a boozy hipster lifestyle. Unfortunately, my liver, my wallet, and my concentration are less enamored of it, so it's the regular 'ol for me.

I'm trying to get stuff together for the trip to Scotland, and I keep running into the 'ol electrical flummox...while some people would see this as a change to 'unplug' for awhile, I really get a little bit freaked out by the idea of no computer or no iPod for any amount of days, and so i'm scrambling to find plug converter doohickeys and my cords and other assorted gadgetry...

I get very flustered when my normal routine gets fussed with (don't believe me? Look at how neurotic I got when had to answer phones for one week) and planning for a trip is no different. I'm getting all kinds of rankled up....

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Last night I felt like I lived in the ghetto. Actually, I should say, it truly has become the epitome of living in the stereotype of a trailer park...last night, there were hooligans, hobos, and drama queens in a non-stop rotation through the gate....

There was weed-smokin', liquor drinking, music playing, car doors slamming, and general tomfoolery all around. I feel like I should call the police, but the Mt. View cops have other things to do than run hoodlums off a dead end street next to a trailer park,

On a happier note, I don't have to answer the phone, thank jeebus, so maybe now my skin will clear up and I can get down to the business of gettin' some serious work done!

Even the phones are happy i'm not answering them.

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Saturday was jam-packed to the gills, and my Friday night was eventful enough that I didn't wake up until laaaate on Saturday, and had to get movin' and shakin'....

We had a couple of different agendas for Saturday, the first was up to the city to spend some time in the Mission district, there was some music to be picked up, and fences to photograph,

Then, it was a quick shot over to Berkeley, where we met up with Chip for some fat eats at Ben&Nicks...

The boys took off on their bikes and I had sleevage madness applied by Jason at FTW...

The night ended with a Mediterranean feast at La Mediterain (or however it's spelled) on Ashby, and then home for sleep, rest, and relaxation....

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We went to University Chicken last night, and we saw the challenge taken..the 911 challenge. Normally I would scoff at such challenges, but i've eaten their "Global Thermo Nuclear" wings, and they had me hurting for four days, and that was one wing. Here's what it looked like....

Yes, that kid will be hurting today....but he's young, they bounce.

It's Wednesday, and i'm beat. As usual, because I have to answer the phone this week, i'm sharing my misery. You can tell me to suck it up, to put on my big -girl panties, to quit bitchin' and moaning and hootin' and hollerin', but i'll just continue to share the love...

I like to think that Rob Zombie will lead the support group that i'll need to attend when this week is done...

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I get this giddy feeling of "Oh good! He's leaving leaving, maybe his job here is done, perhaps I don't have to see his twitchy fingers and shifty ways, oh joy!"

But I know, deep down, I can hope all I want, the hobo is here to stay. Sigh. At least until the fence gets built...

I made it through Monday, day one of five where I do the phone-answering thing...Now, you may ask, "what is so bad about answering a phone? Everyone does it, everyone has to do it, suck it up, sissy..."

Okay, look, when the phone rings, here's what I imagine is calling me...

Scary enough, right? Ugh.

Structure, I like the structure of my day...it's why I seriously love my cubicle. There are people who fight the cubicles, but for many years, i've fought to get back to the cubicle. I feel like a content little gopher in my cubicle...I can just work and work and work and be content...except for the phones! Drat!

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Not a single witticism or scathing observation. I'm even bored with bitching about the hobo.

It's like, a case of the "Thursdays"....

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I got a couple-few emails from some worried souls...I call it the after-the-party-paranoia (Hey man, don't worry, i've done it too!)...I was too vague...

Teenage Love Triangles. Amaze,astound, and confuse me. (By teenage, we'll go into the early 20's.) Look, i'm old I forget the intensity of said relationships...I also think that there comes a point where my gracious and loving host's home was sorely disrespected and their hospitality trod all over as a result of said triangle. I think that should be less vague.

Aliens, I tell you...teenagers are aliens

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Bad fences let the trailer park meth-heads go in and out and in and out and in and out of the gate over and over and over and over - twenty four hours a day- to go buy Gatorade at the 7-Eleven and open and close the same car door over and over and over and over...hobo boy and his lady friend now have a NEW friend and they were in and out and in and out and in and out and back and forth from their cars and talking to a cat at 2 am, and then slamming a car door at 3 am, and then buying Gatorade at 8 am and now they're going in and out and in and out and in and out of the gate over and over and over and over.

Irritating to read, right? More irritating in person - over and over and over and over. Dooder has had a F**king kayak strapped to the top of his car for two weeks, not on a rack, just tied to the top of the car denting the roof and scratching the paint, and he doesn't go anywhere, just in and out and in and out and in and out of the gate over and over and over and over.

The manager has told me that we'll be getting a brand, new, shiny fence with NO GATE soon, THANK YE GODS!!! It can't happen soon enough. I'm positive that the tweekers don't have enough strength or motivation to jump the fence. Plus, it would be really hard to do that with a huge bag full of Gatorade...

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It has to have been someone who never has to wear them. Lord knows i've been through all kinds of phases during my life, and working in offices has lent itself to many a high-heels wearing phase, but they have never been comfortable. Ever.

As i've gotten older and settled in my ways, i've made some important decisions, and one of them is that there is no way i'll wear high heels again if it is humanly possible to avoid doing so. Flats work just fine in dressy situations. With heels, there's the uncomfortable part, and then there's the limited mobility part. I like thinking i'll be able to, you know, beat up a ninja if one ever tried to attack me...I couldn't do that in heels. I'm just not that talented.

This is more my fashion template, but, you know, as a girl

And those that know me, know that the Pabst Tall-Boy usually is one of my weekend accoutrements, and not even in a deliberate ironic way, but a serious I-really-dig-Pabst-and-a-Tallboy-is-a-Dollar way.

Plus, you know, if you dig the Pabst Tallboys as I do (or Budweiser, or whatever your beer-in-a-can-du-jour is) then you know that heels and drunken revelry don't mix...it's hard enough to stumble around without them - why make life more difficult?

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hence, I stay out of the kitchen...mostly. Except for snacks.

Why no post on Sunday, you may ask? (...or, you know, not...) - Well, my Saturday was craptacular - consisting of dehydration, a fever, my car that never gets driven breaking down and all other sorts of tomfoolery...luckily I woke up refreshed and ready to attack Monday with fervor...

I loved the three day weekend...even though, by today, it appears my house needs more cleaning...though I had three days to do so! Well, I guess that's why Monday is a new beginning...

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I had such a party-Sunday that I was feeling the effects all day...

First, there was the unexpected joy of seeing the raddest. store. ever.

Cheese 'n stuff. 'nuff said.

Then getting wrapped up like a roast pig.....

Then topping it off with a dinner at University Chicken.

You don't get to have weekends like this all the time, you gotta just jump in with both feet...

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..then the beer and endorphins wore off...uncomfortableness ensued, but that's okay....Jason did a super-fantastic job on the outlines, and at the end of the month I go back for round two...sleevage madness indeed!

That pretty much took up my entire day, and i'm too pooped and sore to type anymore...

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Is best exemplified by Freddie Mercury. Srsly.

"...Don't stop me now I'm having such a good time
I'm having a ball don't stop me now
If you wanna have a good time just give me a call
Don't stop me now ('Cause I'm having a good time)
Don't stop me now (Yes I'm having a good time)
I don't want to stop at all..."

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Yep, California is officially on fire. Google maps was kind enough to let us know exactly where in case we weren't bummed enough...

I really wanted to go camping soon, too. Now, not so much...

Tomorrow i'm finally getting my sleeve sleevafied...it's been in a state of half-done-ness for awhile, so i'm looking forward to, well...moving forward with it...

There are often people who are shocked! and appalled! by tattoos in general, and it's my belief they're really into it but don't wanna admit it...they own a whole closet full of this mess at home;

They also drink near-beer and grape juice at parties.

I've got a whole lot of cleaning, errand running, bike building, and bike riding to cram into the day...so i'm off to it...

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Or, I should say 'hobo', singular. Dooder has decided to take up residence in his car at the end of the street, taking advantage of the dead-endage...and the first week, it was like..."meh...he'll move along soon enough" and then the second week passed, and now, week three, and he's taken to talking on his cell phone next to his car at 2 am, wandering the trailer park, getting free coffee from the rec room, doing everything but paying rent. Le sigh.

Now, don't get me wrong, in the Silicon Valley there's prolly a ton of folks in the same unfortunuate sitch...but first, he kinda creeps me out. He's not a lovable tramp, a la Charlie Chaplin,

or rad, like El Duderino..

I kinda want to say chav-like, but I don't really know anything about him except that he should make up with his wife/girlfriend/boyfriend/room-mate or whatever and go sleep in a proper bed. Sleeping in a car on a dead-end street next to a trailer-park is just unsavory. Especially when one is disturbing the sleep of said trailer park residents....

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After a triple digit weekend...awkward...

There's a line in "Best in Show" that kinda sums up how i've been feeling lately...

"...we love the outdoors, and talking and not talking. We could not talk or talk forever and still find things to not talk about."

When I did paint, my favorite thing about it was the not taking and the just doing of it...I'm a believer in the whole 'actions speak louder than words'...

OH!! And quick interruption, as i'm writing this, two office ladies are standing behind a Lexus SUV at the dead end street that abuts our house, in their heels and office clothes, smoking a fat joint and chatting...the Silicon Valley. They probably rolled over from Microsoft to hang out by the trailer park and get lit. There's so much I could say about this scene, but talking isn't as good as not talking sometimes...actions > words...

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...and it gets all better when you go home and turn it up to 11 and get rad.

...a chicken fried steak eatin' sunovofabitch....

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...good times!...

Wednesday was a middle of the week day through and through...it didn't help that drunk people decided that 2 am was a good time to stand next to our house and pontificate in REALLY LOUD VOICES, and...yeah. Not a lot of sleep.

Today i'm focusing on...drawers.

My regular routine has been out of whack for the last two weeks, but i'm so close to ultimate organization...when I come home from work...the drawers in the house WILL BE TACKLED!!!

(the below picture, btw, is not any drawer at my haus, but rather, what I fear a drawer can potentially become...)

SHUDDER

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You know how they do on Sesame Street..can you tell me how to get there, indeed!

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If it's Saturday, and you're in front of a computer, and it's daylight...these glorious woods exist at Big Basin right now...you should go see them or something similar...and in real life, not a computer monitor!

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Know what today is!? RADNESS! It is Friday my friends, ahhh yes! The day before the weekend, and all is well...

Superstitious folk don't like when it's Friday the 13th, but I say 'tis a glorious day!

You know why? Starting on Saturday, i'll have three days of being here and looking at these wonderful things, eating at fancy places, and all around radness!!!

Ahhhhh! Heavenly! This is definitely the weekend I cast my penny pinching ways aside!

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So Saturday evening, I didn't make it to San Francisco, I made it upstairs and went to sleep...sleep is a wonderful thing, and after spending all day running around to finish projects, I just like to sleep....

Cari did an amazing job with my mess of hair, as always, i'm putting in my endorsement for Faux in downtown Campbell...

It may not be everyone's cup of tea, but then, that's the beauty of Democracy...

We did take a walk around the neighborhood, there was a concert on Saturday afternoon, and it's always good times to see what shenanigans the young hooligans are getting into around here...I also noticed that concerts=litter, or more precisely, the beer cans that live in the wild venture into the domain of the people and allow themselves to be tamed, thus causing their untimely death and their carcasses to be strewn about the streets...

Not even blended, iced, coffee drinks were safe....

At least it had the dignity to be thrown aside while still upright...

After witnessing all that, I just had to go home and rest, really, it was simply too much....okay, so i'm full of it...I really just wanted to sit down, read a book, and go to sleep early....

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Know what Fridays are? What I like to call a 'lil slice 'o Heaven is what!

Not that every day of the week is not bad-ass in its' own way...like yesterday, when my hubby made dinner...

I realize that when I tell people that I have the worst.eating.habits.ever they may not at first believe me....

However, I do not lie when I say that this is my everyday fare...

As summer is here (so they say) i've kicked up my cleaning a couple few notches, and am always surprised at what I unearth...and it got me thinking about collections. I mean, when people have a tendency to hoard stuff...it kinda freaks me out..to me, people can call it 'collecting' but I think it's clutter...

But you know, to each their own...it's just on my mind because i'm bummed at how much crap I keep finding hen I clean, it's like, I get rid of some stuff, and then I find stuff...more succinctly, life is too complicated in other areas, so I like to keep my living space simple!

ANYWAY, whatever! Enough of this rambling nonsense!! It's FRIDAY!!! Rad!

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One of the things around Mountain View that pulls me into its' irresistible vortex are the 'Google Bikes'. Like Amsterdam, Google has a network of what I like to term 'shareware' bicycles on its' campus.

I always notice the bikes being used by the everyday folk, especially on castro street, sometimes even *gasp!* locked to a fence near the CalTrain station, and i've always wondered how the everyday mortals acquire these bikes...

I think I saw the answer yesterday...

Black Market Google Bike Pile!!! Rad in one way, but overwhelmingly frightening in another...'specially when you get glared down by three big guys in an unmarked truck... I definitely hightailed it from said parking lot. Also, most of the bikes looked kinda mangled, so it could have been Google Bike Rx for all I know...except for it wasn't anywhere near the campus, and it's more fun to imagine I unearthed a clandestine something or other....

On a totally different note, for all my talk of disliking of consumer goods and what-not, I do have a not-so-secret penchant for hoodies...zip-hoodies specifically, because they comprise most of my wardrobe and i'm always cold. While in SF the other day, I was trying to find another of my old hoodies which had 'disappeared' a few years back, and was, arguably, my favorite;

The original Frisco Choppers rad graphic....

Alas, it was not to be. First, they changed their name to 'California Choppers' and second, they changed their design...i'm bummed on both accounts...

As always, lets end on the good foot...can I just say...hell YEAH!!

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Sunday was San Francisco day - more specifically it was Zeitgeist and their bloody mary Sunday morning special day, as well as a wander around aimlessly in the SOMA district day...in short a perfect day!

I don't love it enough to smooch a random storefront window, but I appreciate those who do....

Around the corner from Zeitgeist is the amazingly huge armory building...

Folsom is way colorful....

And other random radness...

It was a beautiful, beautiful day...the point is, really, that there's so much around the Bay Area that's just...rad. I know there are people getting bummed about "it's too expensive to do this, I can't afford that..." But walking and looking and enjoying are all free, and at Zeitgeist the drinks are cheap...

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Weekends are rad, and my weekends always start on Friday night...my Friday started getting rad at about lunchtime, when I indulged in something from 7-11 other than a pre-made sammich...

Bean and Cheese goodness for $1.98? Yes please!!

The evening found us at University Chicken, (formerly Cluck-U Chicken), where I had the chicken strips at "Traditional Death" as opposed to "Global Thermo Nuclear" hot - but even with a $5 Pabst to wash it down, it was still too spicy - i'm getting old...I got no sleep Friday night...(that, and the chicken itself was cold and the beer was flat) However, the evening was saved by the skinny kid who put Slayer on the jukebox and proceeded to ignore his girlfriend whilst playing the air guitar. Unfortunately, I was too much in awe to get a picture...

Saturday's are adventure days, and what I love best is to find the trails and hidden-away bits of nature the Bay Area likes to hide...our chosen adventure was smack dab in downtown Campbell, the Los Gatos trail...

We traversed for a good hour and a half...that trail goes on and on, and it's an interesting juxtaposition of walking along and at some points having the freeway and the cars rushing past you...

Those cars reminded of the sad state of affairs...I haven't put gas in my car for three weeks, and I experienced some sticker shock...

You've GOT to be kidding...luckily, I was just passing by, and not buying that day...hopefully I won't be putting gas in my car for a long time to come....

It's good to know there are people out there who believe as I do....

Saturday evening found me visiting the parent's house....

You know you've got the best mom in the world when she indulges your penchant for pre-made sammiches and classes it up with an ice cold martini.

Heading back home, I was reminded of why I love the Bay Area...

Mountain View is definitely my favorite place to call home. We'll see what Sunday brings...

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You know how you can have a rad day, and then there's just one thing that happens that bums you out? My day (yesterday) started rad as always, with a tasty breakfast provided by the local 7-11...

So, we have a fence that divides our place of living from a side street - the same street that I commute down, that also leads to a Starbucks and a movie theatre - a popular fence with a door in it that has been locked and unlocked, hopped and abused, until finally one intrepid person took the lock out at 1 am on a Wednesday. To keep the fence from swinging open in the wind, a latch was put at the top on the opposite side - meaning all one has to do is reach up and flip the latch. It worked for many weeks, but there's always that ONE dork who can't understand WHY the gate doesn't open...so they just KEEP PULLING....

Until they happily break the fence and keep walking...which totally bummed me out....

See, for two years, we have heard all manner of fence hopping and shenanigans at 3 or 4 in the morning, as a result of said fence being locked or unaccessible, so i'm fairly certain that over the summer, management will "fix" the fence, and said shenanigans will resume, leading to a loss of peaceful sleep. Poor, sad fence...

I didn't let the broken fence keep me down for too long, I had enough minutes to create an amazing gourmet dinner, which totally got rid of the bummer-ness of the desecrated fence...

And to top it off, I got some new kicks, so I went to bed a happy camper. I HATE spending money, but a new pair of sneakers once a year isn't too extravagant, and my feet are an important part of my daily transport..

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I was supposed to be in four different places at the same time this weekend...but I didn't end up at any of them. On Saturday there was a party, but we went by and there were no lights on...an open door and no lights. So we went out to dinner and roamed around. On Sunday, I found out in the morning that we had a BBQ to attend, and so I went - which means the three other places I was supposed to be, I was not at...but I made some new friends irregardless...

the BBQ;

Perl; the code dog

Today was all about Stella and Beretta (Stella's partner in crime...) and this is why I ride everywhere when there are errands to run. In a car, you miss all the little things...the details, the people who are out for strolls in your neighborhood, the squirrels doing their thing... and in my neighborhood, just how much of Mt. View Google really owns....

the Ride;

Srsly, good times all around...

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