I'd attended college football games before, including several at Chapel Hill (so a vaguely major program), but yesterday we went to our first pro game, the Giants at the 49ers. I decided at the beginning of the season to start following football a lot more closely this year, and my teams being the 49ers and the Steelers (in that order) it's been a ( Read more... )

My life mutates and evolves, its vines clinging to the clay, cutting grooves in no particular pattern but gradually giving me form. Watching its progress is curious; are those tendrils so unlike the roots of these trees? Well, anyway ( Read more... )

We went east for the holidays this year, which means Jersey City, for Cat's parents, and Virginia Beach, for mine. For the first time since we've been engaged, we actually had significantly different travel plans, primarily because my parents have a new longhair cat which leaves enough fur behind it (†) that they were specifically warning Cat away ( Read more... )

Cat and I have vowed never to travel significantly over Thanksgiving ever again, so we hosted Thanksgiving this year. After inviting most of the people we know in California, we ended up with six people: platypuslord, buoren, moonndragn, Zoe (Kevin's flatmate ( Read more... )

Prolonged periods have passed since I previously posted. Are past pains present palliatives? It is possible. So suddenly I speak.I have been at work ( Read more... )

A few things have happened recently which are worth noting here ( Read more... )

A desperate life, as told by a Russian phrasebook.

I suppose this sort of thing is what twitter is for.

Overnight flights are not so terrible if you divorce yourself from all hope of fulfilling sleep. Had a notable if not deep conversation with The Woman From The Window Seat, a tech writer with family in Elisabeth. Shared the plane with Ali. Will crash somewhere in WEH in short order.

Yesterday I went sailing on the Bay ( Read more... )

Cat and I have successfully relabeled ourselves as San Franciscans; specifically, we are nobs; in finer detail, we are at: 1650 California St. #24
San Francisco, CA 94109
Fortunately, this is a block away from an Apple coach-route, where operators stand poised to whisk me to the bleak desolation of Cupertino. Unfortunately, that requires 75 ( Read more... )