Sep 15

• Checking out some SF hot spots tonight:
• Dragon Bar - on broadway and Kearny
• Bambhudda Lounge - the funky hotel bar that is a bit LA, a bit Soho Grand, and all San Francisco where I get to idolize the DJ. One can only aspire...
  

Sep 14

• Exciting times are upon us! I have to say I'm enjoying reading up on everyone's pastimes in other blogs. Several of my co-workers run at least one of many blogs (sorry I do work in technology), and it is a great way to see the world through someone else's voice for a change.
• One thing I've recently caught on to in San Francisco is the really bad TV I'm offered on basic cable. I don't watch a lot of TV as it is, but when I do, I find it's split between the following:
• K-RON (or as I like to say "kron")
• Cable 36 - Tyra Banks - more on this below
• National Geographic Channel
• CNN/HNN
• Comedy Central

At this point I hope you're asking yourself why I have decided to tune into Tyra Banks. Since the show is on every other hour here in San Francisco, how can I not watch it? If you must know, she does have some pretty edgy and controversial topics that, as a talk show host, push the envelope. This week for example, there was an interesting segment on racism (which race has it worst via focus groups), and Internet porn predators (they exposed some sicko on her show who decided it was ok to be perverse in front of a self-proclaimed 14 year old girl - gross). I'm glad Tyra moved on from the catwalk to raise the Jerry-Springer bar.

Maybe one of these days I'll have to get TiVo.

Sep 6 - Falling Forward

It's been a whirlwind couple of weeks here in SF. In between a few trips to LA and excursions around SF for work, I spent Labor Day with some good friends who visited from Seattle - fellow NY transplants Aaron and Joanne Kaufman.  We headed to Arnold, CA for the long weekend.  Arnold is about 3 hours due east of San Francisco, smack in the middle of a mining and logger paradise.  At least it was 100 years ago, anyway.  We even got to check out the Logger Jamboree. It was a first for all of us.  On Monday, we were treated to a single-engine plane ride back in The Red Baron.  Conditions were perfect.  We skimmed over the flat California piedmont, the Navy "mothball fleet", the Golden Gate, and even my downtown apartment building.  We didn't see any traffic until we were right outside SF airport.  Compared to the giant landing jets, we were a mere spec of the size.  It was my first weekend away in quite a while.  A welcome, refreshing break.

Otherwise, I am looking forward to my Central Europe trip which is rapidly approaching.  Two weeks from tomorrow I check out for the Berlin marathon.  Training is going well.  I have one more 20 miler to do this weekend, and then it's kick back time more or less.  I've also got to dust off that dirndl, as the uniform will be required once again in Bavaria.  We haven't made too much movement on the Croatia front, but it's still in the gameplan, and hopefully will come together shortly as some NY friends are planning that leg.