dreaming of lunch...
mebbe there's hope in my cheap-eats bereft work hood. will report when can.
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update 12/3/07:

thanks to a cancelled lunch meeting, we got to go check out the roach coach of our dreams! food was cheap, plentiful enough (free egg rolls were a nice touch) and ok. not stupendous. but ok. definitely a nice change from our standard fare around here, but not for the picky folks out there, ok?

extra random slightly dorky bit, turns out that the owner (per website: Julia Yoon, BBQ Princess of Yoon, from the Province of Yummii) went to high school not far from where i went. small world. but not really. we are still in california, eh?
Labels: bay area, foodie

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:: Friday, November 23, 2007 ::

doodles

dusted off the tablet (in the process of setting up my new computer :-)), and had a ball doodling all night...

and not sure when they'll start voting, but i've entered into a monster (grrrawwwr!) contest on facebook. if i can upgrade my tablet...i'll give away my old one! so vote for me! :-)

toki monster

revenge of the washing machine

bunny landing

self eater

not bunny

Labels: art, doodle

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:: Monday, November 19, 2007 ::

home wrestling
thanks to miz ky and nars, we got hooked up with a washer/dryer for the very pake price of FREE. well. almost hooked up. but at that price, you can't really expect installation, eh? (not complaining, mind you, just setting you up for my shaggy dog story...)

first, getting the dang things. i love my stinky truck. i love it. despite the cap and the wheel wells, we were able to get both machines in my truck. meaning one trip to sf (sorry, we didn't return for dinner, but i was stuck on the couch with ice on my old, ailing back).

then the unconscious trip to home despot. (really, i unconsciously ended up there. no, i probably shouldn't have been driving, but sy can't drive stick.) so instead of going straight home, i ended up at home despot. and blamed sy for sleeping (if she'd been awake, we wouldn't have strayed! really!...i know, poor miz sy. she does put up with a lot)

after losing time in h.d. for awhile, we finally headed home, where we had to unload and move the machines into the house. luckily we have a fairly easy back door into the mudroom/laundry room. unfortunately, it was about half an inch too narrow for the machines. so we removed the door, and voila! machines in. well, not voila, but lucky that miz sy understood hinge mechanics and stopped me from taking apart the whole doorframe to get the door off (there's a coupla little pins that hold it all together! who knew?...not me, obviously). and then, voila, after quite a bit of lifting, wiggling, and one wrenched back (mine), machines were in.

and at last, after wrestling with the dryer vent tube thingie, and this and that kinda stuff, they were ready to plug and play. (sy took that opportunity to sagely remark, "maybe we should have tested them before moving them in." to which, i not-so-sagely responded "doh!")

which leaves us almost, but not-quite hooked up: a plug that doesn't match the outlet (but it's very very close), and a spillpipe thingie that's just a little too narrow and has a little bit of a crack (oops). so it's back to the hardware store, and more tinkering. so the suspense continues. but hey, it was free! (thanks ky and nars! we really appreciate it!)

couple extra things:

the dosage on the packets of ibuprofen are per pill, not per packet. that means i've had double what i thought i had...oops. and i can still feel the pain...double oops.

back pain is great for my posture. anytime i slump, it hurts!

ok, that wasn't much of a shaggy dog story. no punchline. but i do need chips...

Labels: bay area, belly palace, go stay come, homey

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:: Wednesday, November 14, 2007 ::

Oil spillage
This from sf surfrider:
If people see oil in the water, they should call (985) 781-0804.
If people see oiled wildlife, they should call (877) 823-6926. The animals will be picked up and taken to a facility to be cared for.
Labels: bay area, heartbreak

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new gmail. feh.
take me back.

admittedly, i'm not bleeding/cutting edge. my preference is to be within view of all the ~~fools~~ folks ~~crazy~~ hardy enough to be early adopters, but far enough that i can safely avoid the abyss.

but the @#$!%! new version of gmail [note: not worthy of linkage, if you're in the us, you know where to find it] just swallowed a couple of my drafts. completely. so the content has evaporated into the ether. i know. i know. free email. good reminder. but also, switch your language option, say to english (uk), and you can be rid of the new version till they fix it and do a more complete roll it out.

[thanks to google operating system for the fix!]
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:: Saturday, November 03, 2007 ::

belly palace
the movers are due in less than 8 hours, and i'm on the couch taking a geekin-out break. the dogs are snoring on the couch next to me, and sy's sneezing in the next room (also geekin-out, methinks).

tomorrow (today!) begins our life at belly palace (belle was a little too precious/disney/french for us). i can't wait, and at the same time, i can't believe this chaos will ever end. packing has exacerbated my control-freak issues (full-blown disorder, more like). and i'm unhappy to say that things are not in the state that i'd like them to be (listed, numbered, properly ordered and arranged...really, that's how i usually move!). and try as i might, i can't put it all on sy. i just didn't set aside enough time for this move. but the shiny lesson in the cloudy bit is that i just need to let go. and we're coming back to clean tomorrow, so we'll be ok.

tonight (last night, sorry, this is getting confusing. blame it on the...waitaminit, where'd i leave my coffee...?!?). hm...oh right. but so tonight, we stopped by the house and dropped off some stuff, checked the mail. brought in the trash. boring, right? nope. it made my night. we met our neighbor, her grandkids (happily squealing up and down the block), and best of all, her gorgeous lovey pitty, destiny.

and i'm much too tired to be coherent, much less bring this all together (i'll edit this later. promise). but there's something in there about belly palace, home, and destiny...
Labels: bay area, belly palace, change, go stay come, homey

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