Saturday, October 21, 2006
What Im watching
From the classic BBC show Chef!
"Runny mayonaisse??!!! Anyone who makes rrrrrrrunny mayonnaise should be tortured slowly IN FRONT OF A WARMLY APPLAUDING AUDIENCE!!"
Friday, October 20, 2006
Picking up souvenirs
Doc (aka my old online pal dividedsouls) picking up San Francisco souvenirs before heading back for Vegas..
the commuter car
Take the cable cars before 8 am, theyre primarily used by people who use it for its intended purpose - to get you around this hilly city quickly.
By 9am, the cable cars are slow and crowded with the tourist trade til 11pm.
Hopefully, I wont jinx it but...
The plan was to take the summer off, then return to my old profession after. It didnt work out exactly as I planned.
Thats where my head battled with my gut. My head told me to go to Plan B and C, things were getting bad. My gut told me everything is gonna work out.
Over the years, listening to my gut has gotten me through, to the point I trust it implicitly. The only thing I dont trust it anymore is with relationships. Thoroughly unreliable there.
But as i was torn between abandoning the Plan and persevering, my instinct has been cheerfully optimistic.
And as Clint will tell you, every time i started moaning about how my gut was leading me down the garden path, things kept happening that was proving my gut has reasons to be so damned optimistic.
Enough good things are starting to finally happen where i am already making plans even tho nothing is for sure yet.
But my gut is still optimistic.
Aright, let us see how things work out.
The plan was to take the summer off, then return to my old profession after. It didnt work out exactly as I planned.
Thats where my head battled with my gut. My head told me to go to Plan B and C, things were getting bad. My gut told me everything is gonna work out.
Over the years, listening to my gut has gotten me through, to the point I trust it implicitly. The only thing I dont trust it anymore is with relationships. Thoroughly unreliable there.
But as i was torn between abandoning the Plan and persevering, my instinct has been cheerfully optimistic.
And as Clint will tell you, every time i started moaning about how my gut was leading me down the garden path, things kept happening that was proving my gut has reasons to be so damned optimistic.
Enough good things are starting to finally happen where i am already making plans even tho nothing is for sure yet.
But my gut is still optimistic.
Aright, let us see how things work out.
Thursday, October 19, 2006
Spider of Lombard Street
California is a spider's paradise. They dont mention that in the movies and tourist guides.
Parrots of Telegraph Hill
By Lombard Street
Technically, red-headed parakeets from Peru
www.markbittner.net/parrot_pages/faq/FAQ.html
Joe
(Taken by Doc Holly's son Spud)
Me and the Drake Hotel Manager Drew on the 21st floor above Union Square.
a simply glorious day
The true San Francisco summer is a few weeks in October when the weather is simply glorious between the summer fog and winter rains. This is what the natives wait all year for.
Wednesday, October 18, 2006
Contradictory, but right on time.
Today's horrorscope:
Yesterday, i got a sharp dose of reality from a tactfully blunt Englishman - refreshing in California's passive-aggressive environment.
Now, I have to buy myself some time and do something about it.
Still, I have a tendency to overthink things so at this moment, Im going to take the advice of this...
Just to clear my head.
Today's horrorscope:
Quickie: The visions in your life are giving you a glimpse of the truth of accurate reality.
Overview: The details are what end up making the whole. Yours, more than any other sign, knows that paying attention to the minutiae can make or break the final result. Thank goodness you're on the case right now!
Yesterday, i got a sharp dose of reality from a tactfully blunt Englishman - refreshing in California's passive-aggressive environment.
Now, I have to buy myself some time and do something about it.
Still, I have a tendency to overthink things so at this moment, Im going to take the advice of this...
VIRGO . Like the popular Gnarls Barkley song "Crazy," today is your day to be carefree and out of touch -- not because you don't know enough, but because you know too much.
Just to clear my head.
Tuesday, October 17, 2006
Im still trying to find a good punch line
The question in Californa is:
"Is this a joke? Do I take this seriously?"
The answer is always yes and yes.
Monday, October 16, 2006
Aloha Festival SF 2006
The mom's shirt reads "Sorry, don't speak spanish - Im Hawaiian".
With variations ("Im Samoan" etc) - it's a popular shirt in California.
Moving on
I had a weird dream earlier. It had me moving somewhere, packed up and having a goodbye meal (and goodbye sex) with an ex before I jumped on a plane.
What made it weird was the incongruity of the people involved. The ex is half a continent away, and - I thought - safely forgotten. And where the hell was I moving.
Clint tried to talk some sense into me:
mcclint: you were leaving the bay area?
JPennant: yeah
mcclint: hahah what have you been smoking?
JPennant: and why the hell am i dreaming about someone i havent seen in years
mcclint: nothing wrong with that
JPennant: thought id resolved all that
mcclint: memories are memories.
mcclint: if your dream world includes the bicycle you rode when you were 7 years old and a stranger on the bus you saw on 2 occasions outside the bus.... it doesn't mean squat
JPennant: is my subconscious leaking?
JPennant: :-)
mcclint: your brain is just trying to create some nighttime entertainment for ya
For me, It's rarely that simple.
For me, even random dreams arent random.
I'll figure it out.
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Ive been thinking recently about moving, leaving the bay area - stopped only because I'd like to keep the place as a home base, somewhere to come back to wherever I go.
That may not be realistic, paying rent in two places. All I REALLY need is a PO Box.
Everything i'd really want to take with me, can be packed into a backpack at this point, dont need everything.
Why hang onto a life I dont need?
--------
Checked into the ex's life, just to see. Eh, only mildly interesting, nothing to do with me.
Yup, ive moved on.
I had a weird dream earlier. It had me moving somewhere, packed up and having a goodbye meal (and goodbye sex) with an ex before I jumped on a plane.
What made it weird was the incongruity of the people involved. The ex is half a continent away, and - I thought - safely forgotten. And where the hell was I moving.
Clint tried to talk some sense into me:
mcclint: you were leaving the bay area?
JPennant: yeah
mcclint: hahah what have you been smoking?
JPennant: and why the hell am i dreaming about someone i havent seen in years
mcclint: nothing wrong with that
JPennant: thought id resolved all that
mcclint: memories are memories.
mcclint: if your dream world includes the bicycle you rode when you were 7 years old and a stranger on the bus you saw on 2 occasions outside the bus.... it doesn't mean squat
JPennant: is my subconscious leaking?
JPennant: :-)
mcclint: your brain is just trying to create some nighttime entertainment for ya
For me, It's rarely that simple.
For me, even random dreams arent random.
I'll figure it out.
-------
Ive been thinking recently about moving, leaving the bay area - stopped only because I'd like to keep the place as a home base, somewhere to come back to wherever I go.
That may not be realistic, paying rent in two places. All I REALLY need is a PO Box.
Everything i'd really want to take with me, can be packed into a backpack at this point, dont need everything.
Why hang onto a life I dont need?
--------
Checked into the ex's life, just to see. Eh, only mildly interesting, nothing to do with me.
Yup, ive moved on.
Sunday, October 15, 2006
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