Category: Life

Clearly »

I’m never going to finish writing up the San Francisco trip. As usually, I started off all gang busters and then fell off the radar.
Suffice to say that the rest of the trip was as fun and packed as the first two days. On Elizabeth’s suggestion I did spend my morning coffee time at Grace [...]

San Francisco–Day 2 »

This morning dawned early for me, what with the time change and the early bedtime yesterday. I woke up initially at 5:30 and by 7 I gave up and headed outside to find some coffee and a place to people watch.
Remembering something I’d read in a guide book I headed up to North Beach and [...]

San Francisco–Day 1 »

By the numbers:
Hours of sleep on Friday night: 0
Arrived at CMH: 4
Departed: 6
Arrived at hotel: 10:30
Cost of room service lunch of desperation: $68
Hours of nap: 4
Monks/Friars seen: 1
Semi-Touristy things Accomplished: 3
Maps in my pocket: 3
Chinese Restaurant Flyers in my pocket: 3
We just really couldn’t sleep Friday night. Mostly it was excitement and anxiety about early [...]

Bye bye Blizzard »

The snow, which was really pretty wonderful on Saturday, is now melting away. The main roads are almost clear apart from the big heaping mounds of sludge off to the sides, and I’m not sure yet but I think I may actually be able to get the garbage can out to the side of the [...]

The Alleged Blizzard of ‘08 »

From my Yahoo Weather thingy:
…WINTER STORM WARNING NOW IN EFFECT UNTIL 4 PM EST SATURDAY…
SNOW WILL CONTINUE TO OVERSPREAD THE REGION LATE THIS MORNING AND
THIS AFTERNOON…WITH THREE TO FOUR INCHES POSSIBLE BY THIS
EVENING. THE SNOW WILL BECOME HEAVIER TONIGHT…AND LAST THROUGH
SATURDAY AFTERNOON. FOUR TO FIVE INCHES OF SNOW IS EXPECTED
TONIGHT…WITH AN ADDITIONAL FOUR TO SIX [...]