August, 2008 Archive

Boat Blogging

Wednesday, August 13th, 2008

I’m currently in the San Francisco Bay on a fishing boat. I just caught a halibut and now I’m celebrating with a cold beer.
Life is good.
PS - here’s a picture of my dad, my father-in-law and San Quentin.

Apparitions at the Albany Waterfront

Monday, August 4th, 2008

I visited the Albany Waterfront park for the first time on Saturday. Odd place. It’s a small peninsula sticking out into the bay that’s crisscrossed by walking paths in various states of repair.
It feels like a former industrial area—maybe a port or warehouse district, I’m unsure of the history— gone wild. There is a sort [...]