SwimFinsSF

British slang

I’m one of these odd balls that has to have the radio or tv or some type of noise going while I work… Don’t know why – just makes it easier to keep my butt planted and makign progress. Today’s selection is ‘Beautiful Thing‘ – great movie and the music is good to hum along to as I work. Anyway – caught a line with the term ‘slag’ in it and realized I didn’t know what it meant.. Could figure it out based on context but wanted to be sure… well thanks to google I found this – and now I know along with alot of other fun terms…

The Best of British
The American’s guide to speaking British

MAN I love the web! 🙂

YES – I’m alive

Just a quick note to say yes – I AM Alive… but work has been SO CRAZY BUSY that when i’m not working or spending time with Kevin i’m lying on my back staring at the ceiling and going ‘bu bu bu bu bu’…. (Go see Overboard with Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russell and you’ll know what I mean). They did take our division to see the new Matrix movie (Matrix Revolutions) friday morning which was nice of them. I thought it was better than the 2nd one but still only marginal. Effects were pretty kick ass and the plot as slightly better than 2 (but not as good as 1) but the writing was AWFUL… No… REALLY AWFUL.. I was laughing hysterically during a couple of what were supposed to be touching scenes because of the writing…

Weekend was mellow but worked casually most of it. Watched Finding Nemo friday night while Kevin was out getting drunk with his co-workers and sunday we spent most of the day running errands and shopping.

Aside from that not much to report – I’ll try to come up with something clever later… or just do my friday five and other blog exercises for fun (feels like I haven’t been doing my homework! 😉 )

happy Monday! 🙂

Oh… And i wanna see this movie, and this one, and this one – but definitely NOT this one (not a big fan of this kind of movie)…

What the… ;-)

Ever see something on the net and wonder why someone would possibly spend their time creating something you’ve found? Check this out which I created via Mirror Sytes by just tacking ‘.mirror.sytes.org’ onto the end of the host part of my URL. Kinda interesting I guess but it begs the question WHY?

Anyway… Just silly! 🙂

We survived

Well… It looks like we’ve survived the mayhem of last night just fine… I was actually kinda flipped out last night (ask kevin) because EVERYONE that was taking MUNI to get to the festivities last night had to walk right by our house so there was a CRAZY stream of loud traffic passing our house all night… But it actually stayed fairly well under control and the news paper this morning said it was actually MUCH better behaved than it was last year. Kevin and I are about to duck out for breakfast and survey the area to see if there was any major damage – but out the front window all I see is a gorgeous sunny day and wet streets from overnight rain! 🙂

Oh… and in the mean time? here are some fun pictures from last night… The mustard bottle is my sister (from Colorado). The two guys and the baby are our friends Patrick and Chuck and their baby Nathan, and the big crew was from Matt’s birthday dinner last night (Matt, Brian, Britton, Kevin, Nathan, and me on my Knees)! Woo hoo! 🙂

Update: Just got back from breakfast and the castro looks none the worse for the wear.. Lots of beer bottles and trash in places that the street sweepers couldn’t reach – but all in all it looks pretty good

San Francisco Halloween

Uggg… This is SUCH an Odd Halloween… Kinda fits the mood actually… The sun is setting as we speak and it really is kind of a spookey evening. Its has been overcast and rainy all day and as the sun sets the dark grey billowey rain clouds are broken up enough to glow orange as the sun goes down. And the darker it gets the more the orange turns to purple and grey. Bikes and cars are riding by outside the window and there is a damp chill in the air. Little kids are starting to appear in their costumes as more grown up ghosts and goblins pass on the streets. I kid you not. And the neighborhood is bustling. For those of you who haven’t experienced Halloween in San Francisco its quite an experience… I’m not saying its a good thing – or a bad thing… Just odd.. Hundreds of thousands of people decend on the castro in costume. IT can be kind of fun but its also a bit intimidating… There are so many people its pretty hard to move and some times hard to breathe.. And now that i’m a home owner in the neighborhood I’m not super thrilled about the prospect.. The city is running it this year and is trying to take control of it but I”m not sure how well that will work – its always been kind of out of control. My inclination is to sit on the porch in a rocking chair with a shotgun and a jug of moonshine and protect the homestead.. Instead i’m gonna just take it in stride. See how it goes… Could be fun…

Anyway… Happy Halloween…

Oh.. and wish Matt a happy birthday! 🙂

Picture Walk Follow up

So Randy posted the pictures that everyone took from our picture walk that we went on a few weeks ago… Man – some people took some GORGEOUS pictures… If you feel like it check ’em out! 🙂

Randy’s Picture Walk 2 Page