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It's been a while, hasn't it?
I started work two weeks ago tomorrow. I'm enjoying it, a lot. It's in Livermore, but I'll be traveling around the Bay Area a lot - last time I worked there, I put 31,000 miles per year on my car. I'm not on LJ (or g-blog, or most of my other internet timewasters) while I'm at work, so I won't be posting so much anymore.
Memorial Day weekend, Deborah and I went to Santa Cruz and Carmel on a day trip sunday. Pacific Avenue doesn't allow dogs anymore, since I guess it's easier to ban dogs than to enforce no-loitering or no-begging laws. There was a surfing competition happening, and we watched surfers riding the one-foot waves.
Carmel was lovely. Carmel is a doggy paradise - most of the shops in the "downtown" have water bowls set out in front, and the beach either allows dogs off-leash, or doesn't enforce a leash law. Maybe because rich people are more likely to clean up after their dogs than poor people? Carmel is full of rich people shopping. It's where money with taste goes to shop - there are probably a hundred art galleries, and some don't have anything less than a few thousand dollars, including some gorgeous neo-impressionist paintings of late-Victorian balls and original sculpture by Dr. Seuss. Most of the people walking around appeared to be very used to having money, but not terribly obnoxious about it. The town is very pretty, and the beach was lovely. And had a little more surf than Santa Cruz - about 3-foot waves.
Deborah has some answers about the tax implications of our plans for the future, so now we're moving forward with the working towards living together plan.
I went to the Valhalla Renaissance Faire this past weekend. It's on Lake Tahoe, amidst a pine forest. It's gorgeous, though the new management hadn't gotten everything up and running smoothly. Early on Saturday, due to not being properly stretched or hydrated for the altitude, I pulled a muscle. No more dancing for me that day, or sunday. Had some EMT attention, iced it for a while, was wrapped in ACE bandage all day and evening. Less walking than normal, too. I found that I was ok (bearable pain saturday, mild pain sunday, mild ache today) if I either pointed my toe or kept my foot at a right angle to my shin. If I bent it upwards - the way it does when you're pushing off in a step, it hurts. Saturday, I got a walking stick (free, from fallen cut branches at campsite), but abandoned it soon enough, as it was more annoying than walking without one. Sunday, I didn't dress in costume, and wandered around Faire with my camera until about 3, whence I returned home.
I'll be at the Plough tonight, but not dancing, and not staying that long.
I started work two weeks ago tomorrow. I'm enjoying it, a lot. It's in Livermore, but I'll be traveling around the Bay Area a lot - last time I worked there, I put 31,000 miles per year on my car. I'm not on LJ (or g-blog, or most of my other internet timewasters) while I'm at work, so I won't be posting so much anymore.
Memorial Day weekend, Deborah and I went to Santa Cruz and Carmel on a day trip sunday. Pacific Avenue doesn't allow dogs anymore, since I guess it's easier to ban dogs than to enforce no-loitering or no-begging laws. There was a surfing competition happening, and we watched surfers riding the one-foot waves.
Carmel was lovely. Carmel is a doggy paradise - most of the shops in the "downtown" have water bowls set out in front, and the beach either allows dogs off-leash, or doesn't enforce a leash law. Maybe because rich people are more likely to clean up after their dogs than poor people? Carmel is full of rich people shopping. It's where money with taste goes to shop - there are probably a hundred art galleries, and some don't have anything less than a few thousand dollars, including some gorgeous neo-impressionist paintings of late-Victorian balls and original sculpture by Dr. Seuss. Most of the people walking around appeared to be very used to having money, but not terribly obnoxious about it. The town is very pretty, and the beach was lovely. And had a little more surf than Santa Cruz - about 3-foot waves.
Deborah has some answers about the tax implications of our plans for the future, so now we're moving forward with the working towards living together plan.
I went to the Valhalla Renaissance Faire this past weekend. It's on Lake Tahoe, amidst a pine forest. It's gorgeous, though the new management hadn't gotten everything up and running smoothly. Early on Saturday, due to not being properly stretched or hydrated for the altitude, I pulled a muscle. No more dancing for me that day, or sunday. Had some EMT attention, iced it for a while, was wrapped in ACE bandage all day and evening. Less walking than normal, too. I found that I was ok (bearable pain saturday, mild pain sunday, mild ache today) if I either pointed my toe or kept my foot at a right angle to my shin. If I bent it upwards - the way it does when you're pushing off in a step, it hurts. Saturday, I got a walking stick (free, from fallen cut branches at campsite), but abandoned it soon enough, as it was more annoying than walking without one. Sunday, I didn't dress in costume, and wandered around Faire with my camera until about 3, whence I returned home.
I'll be at the Plough tonight, but not dancing, and not staying that long.