May 31

• The last day of May has come. Today's WSJ has already started the hurricane season hype (along with everyone else) and are predicting this year to be equally high risk and the northeast US should brace itself. Call me crazy, but I don't remember really having to deal with hurricane reporting until at least late summer. Is all this hype really necessary to rile up everyone again? Maybe it is a wake up call. Speaking of which, I suppose Al Gore's movie An Inconvenient Truth, which opens on Friday June 2nd at the Embaracdero Theatre in San Francisco, is good timing.
• It's no page 6, but the NY Post (and many other sources) are rumoring MSN to buy ebay? Hmm, that would be a big ripple.
  

May 26 - Memorial Day weekend

• I have a record breaking 3 bbq's to attend over the weekend. Lots of braised meats! One is in Mills' Valley, one in Golden Gate Park, and another at Fort Mason for YHI. It should be a fun weekend, and the forecast is sun and more sun.
• My favorite neighborhood bar, 21st ammendment, has a summery wheat beer called Watermelon Wheat. Last night I was there briefly and I must say, it's very tasty.
• The SF Carnival parade & festival is happening this weekend in the mission. I am closeby so I hope to check it out on a non-bbq day.
  

May 25 - Great reason to love SF

Where else can you literally run into a migrating pack/school/herd of sea lions and their fiesty pups? This time of year they are on their migration track and during mating season. I jog down to see these friendly rolly-polly's down at Fisherman's Wharf and they are so cute. Always a top moment of the day. They even have their own webcam (left hand margin).

A bit more on these beautiful lions

These guys are so popular!
Photo courtesy of Wikipedia.

May 21 - Bay To Breakers

• Today was the infamous Bay to Breakers 12k in San Francisco. Luckily, I live a few blocks from the starting line so I rolled out of bed and proceeded to my mark. No amount of good night sleep could prepare me for the way to many naked men I saw (waaaay too many- I think the ratio of naked men to women was about 20:1) and yes they DID race in ruff tough and in the buff. It was a fun race, and made my flight from Boston just to be part of the mayhem worthwhile. Some photos from the event are here courtesy of the SF Chronicle.
  

May 10

• Greetings from NYC. I’m here this week for work.  It's good to be back, but do I feel weird staying in a hotel.  Not to mention that for a good few years, I'd only go to this hotel because it was my gym! (it's a gym and hotel - oh yes and there's a few bars too!)
• I have lots of people to greet and meet - nothing planned of course but I can't believe how it creeps up on you.  This week is packed with dinners, lunches, and breakfast, all fit inbetween the busy work schedule.
• Being back in NYC, I was reminded that besides the people, the best thing about Manhattan is Central Park.  In spring it's green oasis are warmly welcomed in the midst of the concrete jungle.