The weather in San Francisco has been absolutely stunning for the past couple of weeks. If you don’t live in the city, allow me to explain how incredibly rare this is. Our summers consist of fair mornings that give way to windy and foggy afternoons, usually with an afternoon high in the low-60′s or high-50′s. [...]
Without doubt, I am no uber-geek, but I know enough to get by at most San Francisco cocktail parties. I do about 95% of my own IT, and run a pretty tight ship when it comes to security on our home network. So when my Internet connection simply disappeared last week, I assumed it was [...]
Spotted on a gate around the corner from our house: Two funny things about this: 1) I don’t think they even have a dog, 2) That German Shepard moves pretty fast for such visible hip dysplasia.
PG&E crews have been tearing up the streets in our ‘hood for a good five or six months now. Seems there was this federal grant that PG&E was sitting on, and even though they declared bankruptcy, the fed insisted that the work get done or the money get returned. It has been great for Ryder, [...]
Today being Monday, it was Toyota Prius day in the parking lot of Whole Foods SoMa. Tuesday is Mini Cooper Day, Wednesday is BMW day, and the rest of the week is a mish-mash. On the way in we spotted a black Prius with the following license plate: There is discussion in our house as [...]
Driving home from today’s family adventure, I spotted a neighbor’s car with the vanity plate: “VEGAS 71.” My first, and best guess, is it is the city and year they were born in. Which immediately led me to wonder just how much action I’d get if I drove around San Francisco with the city and [...]
1/23/07: Post 1.017 It must have been the way we were dressed, and the fact that all three of us got out of our car and made our way over the garage attendant. It was a nice day, and Michele was looking cute – dressed for the weather – Ryder looked dapper as ever, and [...]
8/29/06: Post 1.010 How I interact with my entertainment is an extremely personal, deep-rooted relationship. My television viewing habits are ingrained, dating back to the formative “on the couch in Tahoe” years of my early twenties. When one lives in a house of nine other testoserone-driven males one quickly learns how to “drive” the viewing [...]
8/19/06: Post 1.008 I am the Information Technology department in our household. For the most part, it’s a pretty simple gig. The hours are good, the pay is below average, but my job security is pretty tight. I’m not extremely savvy in the ways of engineering, but I know enough to get by. I’ve always [...]
8/13/06: Post 1.007 It has been an insanely crazy, busy week, and I got completely, regrettably sidetracked from all that I was going to write about. Every time something good would happen, I’d get slammed a little too hard to write about it. For example, on Thursday we visited Rebecca Beeson’s studios South of Market [...]