Stuff

We had a nice old evening round Joop’s last night. Barbecue, guitar, office gossip, fine wines and house prices. Anyroad, went to town this morning to pick up tickets for star wars and sell some books and the streets were deserted ‘cos there was to be some parade or other. I wished I had my real camera with me, but I took a few snaps with me PDA. Sudarat and friends are coming round any second and I’m in charge of rice. Oh, the responsibility. Might manage some proper blogging tomorrow. Feels like it’s been a while and I think we have some dates for the next few months’ plans… The Gaytán-Fisher World Tour 2005-2006 should be passing through: L.A., Zummerzet, London, Brissle, Bournemouth, Oakland, Seattle, Portland, Vancouver, Zummerzet again, L.A., Nevada, Guadalajara… anyroad, as i said last time, still have to buy the tickets. The selling everything we own has so far netted: $15 for a guitar, and $27.50 for some books. Hoping to get a fair bit more and buy a superlight notepad/lappy for freelance webdesigning and suchlike. Blogging from the beach…

In exactly one month we’ll be leaving our house and heading off on the road again. L.A. first, for a week, then back to blighty, then CA, then UK, then MX… and we haven’t even bought our tickets yet. Maybe this will be the weekend when everything starts to happen. There’s going to be bargains aplenty on craigslist.org. Books, electronics, CDs, everything must go… Would anyone like to bunnysit for an indefinite period of time? Bunnycam optional. Buyer collects.

10 working days left till I’m outta here. They’re getting their money’s worth in the meantime, mind. I thought I was busy before… anyroad, I’m putting the comments back on to see if they get spammed again after 2 weeks absence, we’ll see.

…Medibot

Not pictured: how I feel this morning…

Party chez nous tomorrow evening at 8. Tell your friends…

Sita and I took Atticus’s on his daily constitutional yesterday up by Davenport. I’d been there before a few months ago and took some pictures, anyroad, thought it’d be a nice place to show Sita. Also Tanya mentioned that her friend had seen dozens of whales in Santa Cruz last week and so I thought it’d be a good place to look for them. It was fairly overgrown but we pushed our way through the grass and got to the edge of the cliff and watched two whales who were chillin’ in the water. It was not easy to photo them, as evidenced above, but they were impressive and huge. Surfacing every few minutes and blowing water around. And we didn’t have to get on a boat or nowt. So that was grand. My first whales. My leg started itching after 10 minutes or so, and I removed an engorged tick from me. If blogging stops in a few days, that’ll be the Lyme’s disease. But that was nothing to poor little Atticus who had tons of the buggers in his fur. We spend 15 minutes picking them off him, took him to the dog park by way of a reward. Went home barbied steak and asparagus, got through fair amount of wine, downloaded some 80s choons in time for next Friday’s shindig, watched some Firefly episodes with Mya and Liz, removed more ticks and crashed at 1ish.
I still have some PDA photos from the week to upload, those’ll be the dental ones and a few of Thursday’s walk round Seacliff.

Sita and I just read through together (a beautiful experience) Jesse’s 100 things list. It’s fantastic. Amongst many other things, I learnt that he doesn’t stink. So all that time, it was me…
Inspiring.

I liked this but not the airline itself.

Goodbye Adrian Flook, hello Jeremy Browne (Lib Dem). Hope my proxy vote helped…

Sorry folks, i’ve taken the comment thing off of the site as it got well and truly spammed apart. Once I figure out how to filter it they’ll be back.
Am off for a run now, believe it or not… Just a little excess rage to work off. On June 4th check back here for an MP3 that has to be heard to be believed. If your interest is piqued, email me and I’ll send you the link…

rating kittens and competitively rearranging letters. Also put a few pix up from travels round San Jose’s Cinco de Mayo celebration and orchids on flickr. Rum old day at work. Much of a mixedness, swings and psychopaths and all that. Spend 75 minutes being worked on by dentists. Managed to fit a game of scrabble in on the palm, take some photos of my x-rays and my increasingly expensive mouth. They’ll be posted soon enough… If that doesn’t tempt you back i don’t what will. Cheersy.

Annotated photo montage of breaking down in Berkeley.

No bloody wifi in the hotel. 10 bucks for 15 minutes or summink, but i sneaked into the business lounge to check my hotmail and suchlike. Lots to say, but little time and certain contractual obligations prevent me. Till June 3rd… Car broke down good and proper yesterday. Missed a v. important meeting and got towed by two different tow truck people. Today, one new alternator and $429 later, it’s all back to normal. Anyroad, hopefully shall sleep tonight. I’m off to the reception for earplugs and to settle in to me hotel room. 48 hrs to the weekend…

Went to visit me cousin Ian in Millbrae. He and Yuri had a baby, William James, in December and this was the first time we’d seen him in person. He was defying all stereotypes by being quiet, smiley and pretty interactive in general. Click on the photo for more poses. It’ll still be a few years yet before sita and I move babywards… you heard it here first.
The car had its brake and battery lights lit on the dashboard on the way home and at one point the electrics cut out, so we stopped in saratoga where they checked the brake fluid and changed the battery. The lights stayed on all the while. It’s behaving fine apart from that… ‘ll have to phone click and clack next saturday.
Today was a marathon washing day and then went exploring Pogonip park with Anarchist/Asparagus/Antichrist/Atticus . There’re a few photos here. I’m feeling distictly brain dead at the minute. Time to watch some telly and fold some clothes. Feels like a very english evening. I half expect songs of praise and last of the summer wine to be on when I reach for the remote.

One Flickr Pro account won by the Sociomolology/Contractor tag-team from Virginia and their assorted pets.
Vive le weekend!