Weekend
Friday I was all jazzed for the weekend and got home in the evening with a huge list of things that I wanted to get done. I figured I'd start right away so my Saturday would be more relaxed. So of course I got home, put clothes in the washer, fixed dinner and took a "nap" that put me out until 8AM the next morning... which did mean I was able to get some stuff done before brunch on Saturday at least :)
I met up with
clockworkbuddha and
sinmix at Kate's Kitchen in Lower Haight, a place I sorta avoided for years since there was always a line. Back in my Haight St. days we would leave one person in line at the late great Spaghetti Western while the rest of us popped over to the late not-quite-as-great-but-still-fondly-remembered Horseshoe Cafe. This wasn't feasible at Kate's so eventually it faded from my list of places to brunch at. Now that I've finally made it in to Kate's a few times I understand why there's always a line. Good food, fresh and interesting ingredients and huuuuuge portions. Frighteningly huge in some cases. But tasty.
After breakfast we had planned to see Stardust before heading down the San Carlos for
trinsf's party. However the showtimes were all inconveniently times so we wandered to the Mission to window shop. The best part of the excursion was when
sinmix noticed the window display of Five and Diamond had a mannequin wearing an aviator cap and goggles. We went in and found that among other cool items there was a whole line of clothes from a local designer that were all tres Steampunk, the label name is Steam Trunk and it's all gorgeous. After oohing and aahing and mentally spending our next paychecks (and the ones after that) we oohed and aahed a bit more at Paxton Gate and 826 Valencia (which I'd never actually been in) before hitting Borderlands. I only bought one book but made up for it by badgering
clockworkbuddha into a purchase. M. Christian was doing a reading when we arrived, and I managed to hear enough to add his book The Very Bloody Mary's to my to-be-reviewed for the column list since it's set in the city and even mentioned the avenues. Alan revealed that the slow process of getting the cafe built is still underway and sounded quite optimistic. Ripley ignored us. Eventually we made it down to San Carlos and meet up with
punkrockgrrrl and had a good time drinking mojitos and sangria and creating our own skewers to grill... creativity+fire is always a good idea.
Sunday I woke up late and realized I'd never taken the clothes out of the washer. The rest of the day kinda followed that pattern and I was fairly discombobulated for most of the day, but I did manage to get a lot of stuff done including finally finishing the two pieces of art I wanted to do for the cocktail issue of the Drink Tank. One came out almost exactly the way I had visualized it and the other almost entirely unlike I had planned, but I'm pretty happy with both so that's ok.
Now it's Monday and something on the work website kinda went kablooey, so there's triple the number of support emails :P
I met up with
clockworkbuddha and
sinmix at Kate's Kitchen in Lower Haight, a place I sorta avoided for years since there was always a line. Back in my Haight St. days we would leave one person in line at the late great Spaghetti Western while the rest of us popped over to the late not-quite-as-great-but-still-fondly-remembered Horseshoe Cafe. This wasn't feasible at Kate's so eventually it faded from my list of places to brunch at. Now that I've finally made it in to Kate's a few times I understand why there's always a line. Good food, fresh and interesting ingredients and huuuuuge portions. Frighteningly huge in some cases. But tasty.
After breakfast we had planned to see Stardust before heading down the San Carlos for
trinsf's party. However the showtimes were all inconveniently times so we wandered to the Mission to window shop. The best part of the excursion was when
sinmix noticed the window display of Five and Diamond had a mannequin wearing an aviator cap and goggles. We went in and found that among other cool items there was a whole line of clothes from a local designer that were all tres Steampunk, the label name is Steam Trunk and it's all gorgeous. After oohing and aahing and mentally spending our next paychecks (and the ones after that) we oohed and aahed a bit more at Paxton Gate and 826 Valencia (which I'd never actually been in) before hitting Borderlands. I only bought one book but made up for it by badgering
clockworkbuddha into a purchase. M. Christian was doing a reading when we arrived, and I managed to hear enough to add his book The Very Bloody Mary's to my to-be-reviewed for the column list since it's set in the city and even mentioned the avenues. Alan revealed that the slow process of getting the cafe built is still underway and sounded quite optimistic. Ripley ignored us. Eventually we made it down to San Carlos and meet up with
punkrockgrrrl and had a good time drinking mojitos and sangria and creating our own skewers to grill... creativity+fire is always a good idea.
Sunday I woke up late and realized I'd never taken the clothes out of the washer. The rest of the day kinda followed that pattern and I was fairly discombobulated for most of the day, but I did manage to get a lot of stuff done including finally finishing the two pieces of art I wanted to do for the cocktail issue of the Drink Tank. One came out almost exactly the way I had visualized it and the other almost entirely unlike I had planned, but I'm pretty happy with both so that's ok.
Now it's Monday and something on the work website kinda went kablooey, so there's triple the number of support emails :P