Out the door, down the stairs, across some parking, through a gate, along a rocky beach to a big rock.
In 482 steps, I can be sitting on this giant rock watching and listening to the waves lap the shore.
(sigh)
Nice.
We had a blast at the Asha Stanford Holi 2009! Thanks so much to John for letting us know and Heidi (Mary's cousin and fabulous Stanford Frosh) for playing too!
COLORful Flickr set here.
We capped off the Indian day with a massive Indian buffet dinner at Bombay Garden. Yum!
The birds outside are chirping away and we are surrounded in green.
We are off to Palo Alto to enjoy Holi the Indian festival of color. We are going to celebrate the coming season with splashing colors and Indian food. What a wonderful way to commemorate the passage of the cold, dark, freezing, dreary winters here in the Bay Area. Finally, we can get back to the months of no rain (phew ... wink)
This is a shot standing on our front porch this morning. I'm sitting here now, drinking a beer watching/listening to birds. I just identified a white-tailed kite earlier this evening and we watched it hover for prey.
Things are going nicely. Work is good. The planning program continues to rise at a near neck-snapping speed. I daily change my perspective on the futures of both advertising and education; they both have not been nearly as responsible as they should have been these past 50 years, but both will experience dramatic rebirths. This summer there is going to be a lot of planning going on in this city (including the major planning conference) and for our planning department.
Today, I gave my heart some much needed time @ 150+bpm. I still freak about having a grandfather whose heart decided to quit before making it 50 years (even considering the handful!) I know I should take better care of it. Hopefully these pools and exercise room will help.
We are trying to plan the summer. Sam will be doing some pretty cool camps. I Flickred one day when we visited an open house at a ranch camp. He is also looking at a kayak camp + others. I am looking at visiting Anthony, Jeanette and Lucas in May. Possibly Lucas' first MLB game and my first MLB game in Atlanta! We are starting to play around with the idea of doing a driving/camping vacation in Northern California in August: Humboldt, Redwoods and Lassen Volcanic. Plus I've got to go see these guys at least once!
I am reading some great stuff lately. My current active books are Local, Pistol, Your Brain on Cubs, Designful Company, Usagi Yojimbo and World War Z.
The cats are alive and still fat.
The new apartment is so lovely, but we still need stuff on the walls. We are thinking we may buy some student artwork when Spring Show hits.
Tomorrow we are going to get colored. Sunday Mary and Sam will go river-rafting while I chill and prep for the coming week.
OK, time to go make some food. I just wanted to give an update to the people who follow my life here. Like Mary, I've been doing too much Facebook and not enough blogging. I won't say I'll be better, because I haven't a clue. But laptop wireless computers on the front deck looking over a bird sanctuary bodes well for blogging time.
Mary and I are about to take of for a lovely evening ... enjoy some of the music we'll be enjoying soon at: http://brettdennen.net/
So, this is the kind of silly situation that they show in a Dyson ad and you go "When the frick am I ever going to need to do that?!"
I must admit, I love our Dyson.
And I love having a storage loft!
Hey everyone. I just wanted to write a quick note about the new place.
It is fabulous. We all really like it. The "living space" is so much better/bigger. The high ceilings give more space than you realize. The morning views of the bird sanctuary are pretty ideal, especially in all this rain: lots of green and lots of flowers.
I've got to give a shout out to my students Apo, Gavin and Martin for helping in the move. We couldn't have done it without them. Many, many thanks!
So, I've been pretty drained by it all, but I am starting to catch-up. I should be in full story-telling mode this weekend.
