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 [...]
We went here today.
First a walk on the beach…
…then a bath.
the bagels were good
As you may or may not know, in January we moved out of San Francisco and bought a house in Albany, California—a small town carved out of the north end of Berkeley in the East Bay. (Translation for the New Yorkers: it’s sort of like going from Manhattan to Brooklyn—maybe Park Slope or Cobble Hill.) [...]
So, it’s the Sunday after Thanksgiving and I’m in Arkansas with the family. Me, Katy, Mom and Dad are at a department store in Little Rock. Katy has just finished shopping for a dress (very nice…) to wear to her office Christmas party and we’re all goofing off in the random-gadget area of the [...]
Of course as soon as I decide to get back into the blogosphere I get swamped with work. Currently I’m about 171 pages into a specification document for an online “Global ACH application” and it’s only half done. (What can I say? I’m glad I get paid by the hour. It’s a living.)
“That’s no excuse,” [...]
I took some unexpected time off from blogging because of the event described in my last post. After my uncle passed away I felt I had to write something about it. How could I talk about snowboarding or a good movie or our trip to Costa Rica without first addressing this Big Thing? So, I [...]
My uncle Ronnie (known in our family as “Bubby” or to his friends as “Ron”) died in his home on Tuesday, January 17th, 2006. He was fifty-five years old. (Some of the lakehouse veterans may remember my uncle as that quiet guy that used to fish off the boat dock.)
I’ve spent a long time struggling [...]