Goooooooooooood Morning Saaaan Francisco!
So here I am in the most beautiful city in the Country.. more probably the world. We are having a MAJOR family fete today in Golden Gate Park. Mark Twain did NOT say the coldest winter he spent was a summer in San Francisco but as I sit here in Greg's Office at 7:30am PST it is cold and foggy out. I LOVE IT!
For those of you who are not in the know I used to live less than a 1/4 mile from this very spot on the other side of Golden Gate Park from Greg's place.
So Alex and I warped out of Albany at 3pm yesterday after spending the am at my office. I got a quick haircut from my stylist Dee and did the bank deposit. We got through checkin and security with no problem and ended up in the very front of the "A" line for getting on the plane. (If you have flown SouthWest you know what I mean by this.)
Landed safely in Las Vegas at 8pm est and then sat almost 3 hrs for our late connection to Oakland. Were in the very front of the A line AGAIN for the Oakland leg and ALex was out like a light 5 min after takeoff!
Greg and Geoff picked us up from the Aeroport (sic). Dropped Alex off at MW's and saw Andrew for a bit. Slept at Gregs great pad in the Pacific District.
Today we are having an all California Relative birthday party for Sebastian (aged one - see blog of 7/22). It is assured to be a great photo op for all involved and colder than a ........ you fill in the blank. For my California Readers please don't be alarmed that you were not contacted about this impromptu visit. The family scheduling was very tight and time was really only for family. Fiendeye, B-water and V-Kitty I especially owe you a visit in the future!
The daily read
Picked up the latest Economist in the Las Vegas airport. My subscription has run out and I'm a bit short the $110 that my renewal costs. The world is a mess! Wow. Now I didn't need the Economist to tell me this of course, but they do the details SO well! I always find something funny though in the Economist to convince me that certain parts of the world are quite mad. This week was the article regarding France. Apparently in France you need only work three months of the year as a performing artist to qualify for a full one years of unemployment. Now I'm not picking on France mind you but really that is socialism at its most silly.
I've linked the articles you can read online without a subscription:
So what else can I tell you about going on that you may have missed in Time (written for 11th grade reading level) or Newsweek (written for 5th grade reading level). An interesting editorial cautions us not to write off John Kerry for the Democratic Nomination due to his "top down" of influence gathering. Apparently things are not going well for the "democratic" government of Hong Kong. European population growth is actually negative which bodes very poorly for their State Pension Programs in the future. And most British are still cheesed off at Tony and Dubyea for misleading them about Saddam.
Have a great weekend.
Quote(s) of the day:
I have not lost my mind - it's backed up on disk somewhere.
-- Unknown
It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick
society.
--Krishnamurti
So here I am in the most beautiful city in the Country.. more probably the world. We are having a MAJOR family fete today in Golden Gate Park. Mark Twain did NOT say the coldest winter he spent was a summer in San Francisco but as I sit here in Greg's Office at 7:30am PST it is cold and foggy out. I LOVE IT!
For those of you who are not in the know I used to live less than a 1/4 mile from this very spot on the other side of Golden Gate Park from Greg's place.
So Alex and I warped out of Albany at 3pm yesterday after spending the am at my office. I got a quick haircut from my stylist Dee and did the bank deposit. We got through checkin and security with no problem and ended up in the very front of the "A" line for getting on the plane. (If you have flown SouthWest you know what I mean by this.)
Landed safely in Las Vegas at 8pm est and then sat almost 3 hrs for our late connection to Oakland. Were in the very front of the A line AGAIN for the Oakland leg and ALex was out like a light 5 min after takeoff!
Greg and Geoff picked us up from the Aeroport (sic). Dropped Alex off at MW's and saw Andrew for a bit. Slept at Gregs great pad in the Pacific District.
Today we are having an all California Relative birthday party for Sebastian (aged one - see blog of 7/22). It is assured to be a great photo op for all involved and colder than a ........ you fill in the blank. For my California Readers please don't be alarmed that you were not contacted about this impromptu visit. The family scheduling was very tight and time was really only for family. Fiendeye, B-water and V-Kitty I especially owe you a visit in the future!
The daily read
Picked up the latest Economist in the Las Vegas airport. My subscription has run out and I'm a bit short the $110 that my renewal costs. The world is a mess! Wow. Now I didn't need the Economist to tell me this of course, but they do the details SO well! I always find something funny though in the Economist to convince me that certain parts of the world are quite mad. This week was the article regarding France. Apparently in France you need only work three months of the year as a performing artist to qualify for a full one years of unemployment. Now I'm not picking on France mind you but really that is socialism at its most silly.
I've linked the articles you can read online without a subscription:
So what else can I tell you about going on that you may have missed in Time (written for 11th grade reading level) or Newsweek (written for 5th grade reading level). An interesting editorial cautions us not to write off John Kerry for the Democratic Nomination due to his "top down" of influence gathering. Apparently things are not going well for the "democratic" government of Hong Kong. European population growth is actually negative which bodes very poorly for their State Pension Programs in the future. And most British are still cheesed off at Tony and Dubyea for misleading them about Saddam.
Have a great weekend.
Quote(s) of the day:
I have not lost my mind - it's backed up on disk somewhere.
-- Unknown
It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick
society.
--Krishnamurti
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