2006-10-30 
 

vacation admission

Okay, I admit it. I meant to update this site every day last week.

Didn't happen.

I did get a lot done with bills, doctors and house stuff.

And more importantly, caught up on many of the programs Mr. TiVo had recorded for us.

And had five martinis in a row without worrying about having to be anywhere the next day. mmmmm...olives.

And slept in late...sooooo late.

And ate whenever, whatever and wherever we wanted.

And spend too much money at IKEA buying little things we've meant to pick up for ages...and then had a romantic dinner in the cafe. mmmmm...meatballs Even had a view of the Golden Gate bridge and the sunset...under an overpass sure, but I believe you can find romance in any location if you concentrate on your partner instead of your surroundings.

Oh, and I spent a ridiculous amount of time towards the end of the week playing the demo for Lego Star Wars 2 (The Original Trilogy).

And of course, we went on our annual pumpkin trek to Half Moon Bay....followed by the traditional meal of Hawaiian food. mmmmm....chicken katsu curry

G with the perfect pumpkin

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2006-10-25 
 

another day, another doctor

Ah, the medical mystery that is mike.

So, met two new doctors today over at the UCSF Clinic I was referred to. They were both quite nice, but gave a different spin to the whole Mikey's Mouth growth thing than I got from the ENT. These new folk say it needs to be watched, but there's no sense in lasering it out unless it's bothering me. I'm going to give a call to the ENT and see what he says to that, but I think I'll let it wait until Monday...after I see the new Dermatologist.

After all, I am supposed to be on vacation this week and I'm tired of the red tape used by the insurance company. It has a particularly nasty stickiness that attaches to ones frontal lobes and acts as a temporary lobotomy if you don't remove it quickly. None of the administrative staff in any of these offices wants to deal with it, so it's mostly left up to me and my brains been feeling numb. Time to let it recover a bit before getting wrapped up again.

Thanks Aetna! Love you too! (and your imprecise In-Network system)

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* posted by me at 4:13 PM

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2006-10-24 
 

monkey on my blog

Scroll down to the bottom of this page to meet Max. I was going to place him directly into this entry, but thought about how lonely he'd get after being shifted into the archives.

I should probably think about an overhaul of this splash page, but I'm pretty content with the way things are and know that the next step may be a doozy if I decide to switch interfaces here behind the curtain.

We'll see. Until then, go meet Max, and don't be afraid to give him a banana. He's a good little monkey and never bites.

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* posted by me at 4:37 PM

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2006-10-22 
 

book meme 2

Found this meme on Yaniblog and couldn't resist. Books, books, books! Love 'em.

Instructions: Bold the ones you've read, italicize the ones you might read, cross out the ones you won't, underline the ones on your book shelf, and place parentheses around the ones you've never even heard of.

Note: I loosely interpretted bookshelf to mean both the ones I have here in SF as well as the ones left back east with Mom and Dad. (I've slowly been carting them across the country, but there's miles to go on that project. I may end up carting the SF books back before all of the Weymouth books make it here.)


The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger
The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy - Douglas Adams
The Great Gatsby - F.Scott Fitzgerald
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
The Time Traveler's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince - J. K. Rowling
Life of Pi - Yann Martel
Animal Farm: A Fairy Story - George Orwell
Catch-22 - Joseph Heller
The Hobbit - J. R. R. Tolkien
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
Lord of the Flies - William Golding
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
1984 - George Orwell
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban - J. K. Rowling
One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
Slaughterhouse 5 - Kurt Vonnegut
Angels and Demons - Dan Brown
Fight Club - Chuck Palahniuk
Neuromancer - William Gibson
Cryptonomicon - Neal Stephenson
The Secret History - Donna Tartt
A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe - C. S. Lewis
Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides
(Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell)
The Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
Good Omens - Terry Pratchett, Neil Gaiman
(Atonement - Ian McEwan)
(The Shadow Of The Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon)
The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemingway
The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
Dune - Frank Herbert

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* posted by me at 4:30 PM

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2006-10-19 
 

read it out loud

In my family we have a tradition of reading cards aloud in front of everyone. Everything from the funny ones that have you laughing too hard to finish, to the ones that leave you teary eyed with joy...and struggling to get through the last lines before you lose it alltogether. Got a card the other day that falls into the latter camp. While typing it out isn't quite the same, I feel like shouting this from the rooftops. Ah hem.

To Our Children
Believe forever in your love and your love will be forever beautiful.

On your anniversary we just wanted you to know you're a special part of our family's happiness, and a very special part of our lives always.
Happy Anniversary with Love,
Mom and Dad.

Not only am I with the most wonderful man in the universe, I also have wonderful parents. That's all, just feeling blessed and wanted to share.

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* posted by me at 7:24 PM

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2006-10-14 
 

it's not a tumah!

Haven't posted this week due to much craziness at work and a lot of trying not to think about getting back my biopsy results from last week.

So, found out from the doctor yesterday that the freaky thing in my mouth isn't cancerous, or even life threatening at all. Frustrating thing is that I had to be the one to hunt him down for the test results on Friday instead of them calling me to let me know they'd actually come in Thursday. I'm due for a followup, because even though it's not life threatening, it's gotta get lasered away. Ouch.

I hope they give me some good drugs to recover on.

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* posted by me at 7:43 PM

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2006-10-06 
 

holy fountain batman!

Went out to Pleasanton today in order to pick up a cargo box for the roof of our car.

I've said it many times before, but it bears repeating: craigslist rocks!

Anyway, saw this along the way and had to share. The sun wasn't in the ideal spot for photos, but these two should give you a general idea of what it looks like.





It's a holey fountain!

So sorry, but I live for a bad pun.

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* posted by me at 7:21 PM

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2006-10-01 
 

csf 33

Decided to venture out into the 33rd annual Castro Street Fair. Quite glad that I did. It's been a long time since I stood so close to a stage and just listened to good, loud music.

Finding Mercury was playing...and yes, that's a rather old gentleman in a black jockstrap grooving along to the beat up there in front.



Love those white socks!

No other pictures. I spent most of my wandering just enjoying being in the middle of a crowd and sipping on a beer. A bit odd being there all alone, but G wasn't up for it today and my other Castro friends all seemed to have fled the 'hood. That being said, it's good for my shy self to get out there once in a while and remember that I can still face the world on my own.

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* posted by me at 8:21 PM

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