First off, I would like to tip my proverbial hat to all the fine folks who joined us for our winter warmies pajama party this weekend - thanks for making it a fabulous night all around. We ended up with a respectable crowd of 22 and got to see many lovely faces that we had been missing for a while. Robes and PJs were sported by nearly all, and we ( Read more... )

I sure could have used a post-Sunday Sunday today. The lazy-day-at-home kind that serves as a cushion between active weekend fun and dutiful return to the workweek. Because this weekend was one of those filled with good company and simple pleasures that one could wax poetic and get preemptively nostalgic about.

( You can read my ode to prime produce and simple summer Saturdays behind the cut if you enjoy daydreaming about that sort of thing... or you can skip straight to the part where I black out! )

Ay, it's been a busy couple of weeks. My class work has gotten rather more substantial and was compounded by my putting it off all week-before-last in order to do a massive edit-rewrite of a company white paper for my dad. Then last weekend was a non-stop trip up north for lil' sis-in-law's graduation, which I spent bifurcated between joining the ( Read more... )

This weekend was quite pleasant, even despite my great stairmaster disappointment and the intrusion of rain into what I was hoping would be a sunny Saturday romping in the grass. The get-together I had planned for the day was supposed to be a croquette picnic at the park. I knew before hand from the forecasts that it would probably be rained out, ( Read more... )

I neglected to post last week despite many goings on ( Read more... )

This past week was both full and mellow. Monday night was out to Sushi for birthday dinner, followed by relaxed evening in. Tuesday was the real highlight of the week - we got to go see Stephen Hawking himself give a lecture on the Origin of the Universe at Berkeley. Anne had given us tickets to it for Christmas (thanks a million, sweets!) so I'd ( Read more... )

Hit the city Friday night to hear Dutch DJ team Mark Norman spin an Alibi party at 1015 Folsom. Rio and I met up there with my little broheimer and a Gaggle of Germans that he had in tow from IBM. The crowd was a little on the sparse side for an international DJ event so they crammed everyone into the upstairs room instead of opening up the larger ( Read more... )

Rio and I had a fabulous time this weekend hosting the first of our monthly 'Second Saturday' parties. We ended up having a good group of 13 over at our place for an evening of food, drink, and games ( Read more... )

Friday night was a blast. We went to hear Kyau & Albert spin an Alibi party at 1015 Folsom. I hadn't heard of the top-ranked pair of German DJs before this, but my fabulous turn-table-toting brother (who is my trusty club-scene-connection) tipped us off to how good they are so we knew they were't to be missed. Their set rocked some serious ass and ( Read more... )