42 Dreams of Arizona Bay

I’ve lived here for three years now, and am starting my fourth winter season.
I’m always surprised and then depressed by how early it gets dark here in the middle of winter. It is 4:47 as I write this sentence, and while it’s not entirely dark, it would be more than dark enough for headlights.
I don’t [...]

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It’s just another day. I’ve been sick. So sick that I didn’t got to work on Sunday and went home early last night.
Yesterday I had a lovely meal of ravioli and garlic bread, topped off by chocolate cake and chocolate gelato. It all tasted good but it’s hard to properly appreciate and taste when you [...]

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… or iRegret
The feeling you get the morning after you download 19 songs from iTunes at 1 in the morning while in a freezing cold stupor because you haven’t turned on the heat.
It’s a little fuzzy why you bought Van Halen “Jump” (memories of jumping in a neighbor’s tool shed to this song), and now [...]

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Last weekend in San Francisco, in Oakland, in Berkeley …
On a street corner, while it was raining in North Beach
“Let’s pretend we’re in Paris again. Let’s pretend …”
In City Lights Books
“I had to spend all damned day at the VA hospital with my dad.”
On BART
“Can you imagine?”
“She’s pocketing the money.”
“It’s like going to church”
At the [...]

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What is it about dishes that right after you’ve dirtied them, they look easily taken care of? And then they transform, overnight, into some great guilt monster?
I have no excuse. I wanted to watch back-to-back episodes of Star Trek (the original) last night. I got up long enough to make lemon blueberry cheesecake bars, which [...]

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This is Jordan the Bathrobe Guy, I think.

I was sorely disappointed to learn that he had never read Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy and therefore, did not know the question to the answer of 42. Or anything like.
Anyway, I had my camera out for Halloween and snapped this as he was talking to some undoubtedly [...]

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