It was my 45th birthday today, and my health obligingly cooperated with our plans, which were fairly extensive, though not rigorously scheduled.

We started out by taking BART to Glen Park station (in San Francisco), where we bought fancy-dancy sandwiches at a snooty little store called Canyon Market on our walk over to Glen Canyon Park. We walked ( Read more... )

Longish bike ride today (almost 20 miles). We (S and I) biked to Rockridge BART, took BART to Lafayette, had lunch at the Baja Fresh there (since there are none close to our house these days and we miss their food), then headed out onto the trails. First, Lafayette streets, then the off-road Lafayette-Moraga Trail (busy with many of our fellow non- ( Read more... )

Shannon and I biked down to the (sorta) new Berkeley Bowl this evening, primarily because (1) I wanted to check out the store's "British food" section and (2) Shannon wanted to have a look at the nearby bike trails, which have been recently under construction. Despite the morning's drizzling rain, this evening it was lovely, sunny weather for a ( Read more... )

Yesterday, while having a pill thrust into her mouth (unfortunately not down her throat, though that was accomplished eventually), Cobweb bit my left index fingertip in some magical way that was excruciating. Some of the worst pain I've ever experienced. Shannon and I assume she must have hit a nerve or something, because it really hurt more than ( Read more... )

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Hella cold today. Well, not by *other* people's standards, perhaps, but definitely by ours. There was a low of 38 degrees (Fahrenheit). I've been bundled up even inside the house, and I wore my warm wool coat when I went out. When walking with friends outside, I was surprised that so people were wishing they had gloves, even one guy from the East ( Read more... )