A wonderful end to our Valentine's weekend today. Shannon and I biked about 12 miles round-trip up to the southern edge of Richmond / northern edge of El Cerrito and had lunch at Carrow's. We were able to bike most of the way along the off-street Ohlone Greenway, which had been under construction for about 2 years, and so it was lovely to be able ( Read more... )

I've been having increasingly frequent (and increasingly severe) nausea again the last 2 or 3 weeks. I've also been feeling exhausted with increasing frequency and severity ( Read more... )

Tonight Shannon and I went to dinner at Angeline's (a cozy New Orleans-style restaurant in downtown Berkeley), which is where we've gone for Valentine's Day a few times before (e.g., in 2009). We shared an order of their excellent salty/sweet/spicy hush puppies w/honey butter (this appetizer is one of my favorite foods on the planet, and I'd been ( Read more... )