June 30

Some fun sites for today I've recently discovered:
Don't eat the gummy bear soap!
http://www.iliketotallyloveit.com/

If dog's had party fouls they'd be something like this http://faildogs.com

June 26 - Humpack Whale Spotting in Monterrey Bay last week

Photo by Amy Campbell








2 Weekends ago some friends and I rented a 46 Ft Beneteau sailboat in Santa Cruz. We had a GPS with us so we mapped out our farthest point. What was a big surprise were all the Humpack whales we saw. The calm bay allowed us not only to hear the whales surface, but we smelled their lovely breaths and saw a few even breech. It was surreal and spectacular.
Out on a rented 46" Beneteau, we wound up seeing close to 100 whales.
Our coordinates:
36.8676,-122.0618 - Google Maps

My Photos (no whales but plenty of group shots):

2008-06 Monterey Sail

June 24- RIP Steve

Over the weekend a friend was hit and killed on Route 1 just North of Ano Nuevo State Park, in San Mateo County. I hadn't seen him for 6 years, but I always wanted to get in touch with him since we'd both moved to San Francisco. Steve and I went to the same college at different times, and majored in something completely different than what we managed to pull off in our professional lives (he english, me geography).

Needless to say I'm a bit shaken up over all of it. Steve is the 2nd person I know who was killed unsuspectingly by a drunk driver. Ironically, another friend named Steve was killed back in 1998 in my hometown driving home at 9am from a meeting on a rural road, by a drunk driver. He was 26 years old. My friend was 30. Way too soon to leave us.

I keep thinking about Steve's voice. I sat within earshot of him and always heard him on the phone speaking to customers. His voice was so calming and soothing. If I were a disgruntled angry customer, I'm sure I would feel better in some way after speaking to him. It sounds so hokey, but his voice was calming to me. Steve, you will be sorely missed.

• http://stevewolkoff.wordpress.com/

June 18

A fellow x-NYC'er is packing up and heading west to San Francisco. Another San Francisco recruit! I put my friend Maria on a plane today after a 2 day visit. She is returning in July to take up residency in our wonderful city. Here's a pic of us from a while back at Fordham homecoming 2006 - her undergrad my grad alma mater. Did I mention she's single? Takers? Takers?

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• Tomorrow I'm off to Seattle for a few days. Work and then catching up with some good friends who are married and also Starbuckers (what do you call someone who works for Starbucks who isn't a barista?).
  

June 6th

• I love maps. I love maps with useful things like homicides in San Francisco. Useful in the house hunting process!
  
• I'm feeling very sporty today. I'm off to my sprint triathlon tomorrow, then volunteering at Escape from Alcatraz triathlon along the bike route in Golden Gate Park on Sunday. Feeling very sporty since I got fit for my new bike today
  

June 5

Blog This:Google’s turf expands 42.2 acres | Between the Lines | ZDNet.com\
Only 5.2m in rent - what a steal!

June 4 - Obama in the house

• I admit I voted for Hillary in the primary. I, like many other voters, became Obama supports over the last few months. It's been a wild primary, and I'm glad to see it winding down at least on the primary side. Go Obama go!
• This weekend is my first (sprint) triathlon in almost 2 years. I have 3 lined up this summer. I feel ready and am excited to finally swim in the bay. Anyone near McNears Beach at San Pablo Bay on Saturday eve, feel free to stop by.
• I Sex and The City'd it up last night, at the Westfield theater with almost 10 other lady friends. I had heard mixed reviews about it, but it was a fun watch, although a bit on the lengthy side. Sort of like a mega-episode of 2.5 hours. I laughed a lot, and even had a few flashbacks to my NYC days. Particularly the one where I didn't know which way Manhattan was on a dark, rainy, late night out on the Manhattan bridge, in a cab. After the movie got out all I wanted to do was drink a tasty cosmo and call my NY girlfriends that I always miss.