Send me or link me to your favorite maps, fiction or non-fiction!
I decided I want to create a movie-poster size map. It’s a long-term project, I expect it to take a long time. Anyway, I’m looking for as much inspiration as I can get, so if you have a favorite map, please let me know about it!
My custom 80’s pandora station played When You Were Young by The Killers and Hungry Like The Wolf – I wonder if someone has a station full of exclusively Rock Band songs?
Remember how I posted quite some time ago about how I kinda enjoy when older waitresses call me “honey” or “sweetie”? How it’s kinda like a natural affectation they get for being a waitress for a number of years?
Someone called me honey earlier today, and I kinda wanted to throw them down a well (go get Timmy!). I don’t know what it was for sure, but I think I just detected the difference between “Everyone is honey” and the sweetly pejorative “honey”.
Lucy has something delicious marinating, I can’t wait to nom!
Re: E3 – I cannot remember the last time I was excited over so many games in one season. Seriously.
I’m taking a quick moment at a terminal in our timeshare “hotel” to keep my peeps up to date on our awesome honeymoon adventure.
Jer picked us up right on time (after a confusion over AM and PM, whoops!) and the flight was uneventful – we even had a seat between/next to us for stretching out. Our stop in Denver had us moving midway up, and the final leg was even quieter. Lucy started to reach her “okay, enough” about 20 minutes before we landed, which is overall pretty okay.
After landing in San Jose, we waited for the bus that’d take us to the train that’d bring us to San Francisco along with a couple, Matt and Lauren, who were on the same long flight as we were. They were funny and kind, and we chatted it up the whole way in. This was a great way to start our trip – pretty much everyone in and around SF has been engaging and happy to chat.
One taxi ride later, and we reached Powell Place, at the top of the tallest hill in Nob Hill. A cute old french bulldog greeted me by gently but incessently licking my exposed ankle for the entire sign-in time.
Our room is pretty awesome – there is very little climate control here (open or close a window) and no screens, because there are barely any pest insects. We have a giant fan above the bed, which is totally awesome for breeze and a bit of noise. Fridge, stove, microwave, dishes, TV, pretty much whatever we need. Sporadic internet – no warcraft for us! Haha, I didn’t bring my laptop, anyway.
We bought a week Muni pass, and have been up and down this hill a dozen times. Chuck and Erica Firment were wonderful hosts on our first evening, taking us out to the Marin Headlands, with these incredible foggy cliffs – the photos don’t do it justice. This was right by a military installation, where by coincidence we saw the Nike Missile guard raise and lower the (decommissioned) weapon. We hit up the beach, and had fabulous chinese and japanese food on the northern end of town.
We also met up with Jeska, Brad and Stephanie at a bar up there, and it was awesome to catch up. Later in the week, we met up with I Love Bees folk (HMRPita and Ariock) for some mega Rock Band battles and pizza! If it works out, we might see Joy later this week, which means we’ve seen a lot of the folks I know out here – mostly Michigan expatriates.
Anyway, we’ve also hit up Noisebridge, one of the first hackerspaces in the U.S., and I sat in on another soldering class by Mitch Altman (creator of the TV-B-Gone remote). He inspired me to pick up a Boarduino kit to solder when I get home – I’ll need the help of my i3Detroit friends to make sure it works and find something to do with it!
We visited Fisherman’s Wharf and the Ferry building, and bought some art for ourselves and family from a very cool street vendor group. We saw some acrobatic performers and excellent street musicians, and we made it to the only In n Out in the area! My cheeseburger was delicious, thank you.
We also made it to 826 Valencia (the Pirate Store) and Good Vibrations, and a dozen cool stores with a lot of personality. We went to the California Academy of Sciences and went through the Extreme Mammals exhibit and a super-cool planetarium – the largest in the world, apparently. Whoopi Goldberg was the narrator, which was … weird, but cool.
We’ve eaten mexican, we’ve had crepes, we had italian, and we’re having brazilian tonight. We saw Henry Rollins (3 hours of nonstop spoken word, the man is a machine and will be on tour until the day he dies) and we’re seeing Wicked tomorrow. We’ve ridden every form of public transportation and we’re probably going to visit Alcatraz later.
Today, until dinner, we’re just going to chill in our room (which is being cleaned while I write this, while lucy chats up the manager about dogs and iPads) and read our tons of books.
This whole trip, just like our wedding, wouldn’t be nearly as gratifying without the people, even if we did the same things. Between the strangers who’ve engaged us (like the couple at the ticket booth when we bought our half-price tickets in the morning) and the old friends we’re catching up with, it has been wonderful, amazing and a beautiful experience.
Lucy and I are terribly happy with our experience, and each other. The day we get home, we get our bedroom furniture, and then we have to tally up the damages, haha, and figure out what we’re going to do with the rest of our summer. With all this behind us (awesome as it has been), we’ll get a chance to hang out with our local friends, together, and go home together, and I totally can’t wait.
ADVENTURE!
Trying out the ljbeetle app on my Cliq!
So far our trip has been a blast – friendly people the whole way here. We met another couple also on vacation, they’re headed nearly the same place. We’ll check in, partake in delicious food (chinatown?) And have drinks with some friends.
More later!
PS glad i brought shorts despite everyone talking about the chill – i was a Michigan winter baby!
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We’ve been very busy, but not too busy to laugh with Lucy’s sisters, have delicious PF Chang lettuce wraps, talk and laugh with my mom, aunt and cousins, and finish writing our vows.
So I guess this shindig is really happening. :)
Heading off to the hotel this afternoon, next time LJ sees me, I’ll be a married man. ;)
At the very last instant, I decided to set up a video booth with my flip camera, haha. Perhaps someone should have reminded me that I’m going to be too busy getting married to man that! ;D
I am happy.
Cheers, all. :)
Someone on my RSS shared a fascinating blog entry about slut-shaming, and her personal experience with it.
I really wanted to copy this quote somewhere I could look at it again and think on it, so you are the lucky recipient:
See, the thing is this: when people try to make you feel bad about something that you didn’t do to them, when people try to make you feel bad about behavior that has nothing to do with them, when people try to make you feel bad about behavior that never hurt anyone else, those people are showing you who they are. And who they are is small, petty, frightened, angry and threatened.
I think it goes without saying, but I’m pretty relieved not to experience this very often in my daily life – and I sincerely hope that I am past those days, myself.
