Out around July 24th

Several birthday celebrations for Kate Drane + A great run to Crissy Field Warming Hut + Isolani goodness in Berkeley= A Great weekend


Board Game Night at Just Awesome.







Golden Gate views from Crissy Field.



Baby Luca


Skeeball and beers at Buckshot (Kate's birthday part deux)

Le Beau

This is my market up the street. I love it.

A letter to Meghan

So I hope Meghan doesn't read this because it is basically part of a letter that I wrote to her. I couldn't believe a Bed, Bath, Beyond Catalogue... It involved an electrical outlet talking in "teen/littlest homies talk" and flirting with the real life models in the catalogue. Then, they were selling something called a booty pop. Check it out:

Image from Thursday

I've passed a homeless man who sleeps on my corner in a black sleeping bag many times; usually, he is completely covered by the sleeping bag and his head is pointing downhill next to a USPS mailbox.

The other day, though, he was sitting up in his sleeping bag and leaning against the mailbox. He had a bunch of 1/2 smoked cigarettes piled on his bag (saving for later?), and he was reading a paperback. Even though this man was probably in his 70s, I had a flashback of seeing smelly Outward Bound boys sitting up in their sleeping bags on their solo times.

As I got closer, I could see what he was reading:

The Notebook, by Nicolas Sparks.

San Francisco Running

It's been chilly in San Francisco this week. So much so that this was my requisite outfit for a run yesterday...

New Buddy

This is the new dog in the Sycle office. His name is Buddy and he belongs to the new guy, Tom.

Photo a day recap

I'm going to ditch the photo a day blog... and return to my good ol' Optimist. So here's a recap from the last couple of months of summertime in San Francisco (and a little Asheville from earlier). A bit of repeating, but I'd like to document it here.