Pouring, deluging rains this evening, and the pyrotechnics to go with it. Bicycled down to the Art Museum to hear John Kerry speak, then bicycled home through air so humid it felt kinda, you know, dirty. Went to grab dinner at Lee How Fook’s and bring it back, and only just got back before the [...]
Stepping off the plane and onto the jetway, he always takes a long, deliberate breath during the first step, the one onto the very end of the levered ramp, so that he can feel it reverberate a little, and see the gap between the accordion-folded plastic and the plane. One long inhalation has always told [...]
This morning, I lived in a biggish city near the ocean, with long sloping green hills overlooking it. (San Francisco?) Partly as an experiment and partly out of boredom, I started playacting that I was mentally ill (but in a funny, charismatic way) and predicting the end of the world in song, and generally being [...]
I’m sitting in my office after my early morning conference call with India, futzing a little with Audacity and wondering whether to go back to bed or go for a bike ride. It’s a clear day outside; the sky is brilliantly blue, and two yards away from me, it appears to be raining. Here: clear. [...]
Kate and I had a little snarly moment, just a little bolus of stress over how much we have to get done in the next 18 days. I went out for a quick half hour bike ride, from our place down to the boathouses and back, along Kelly Drive. Felt good, though I’m clearly not [...]