photo by Mark Finnern.
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Its been a while since I've been able to get to a computer or the internet (this is normally a good thing, though the widthdrawal symptons do start kicking in hard after a while).

This lapse of digital-void-time-wasting has been due in part, as usual, to sporadic travel. First to the city, San Fran, only 30 minutes away from my current residence.

Friday night The Random Englishman and I watched the latest Coen brothers' movie (The Ladykillers), drank a bunch of good beer in the theater, saw the most beautiful [woman of ill repute] in the world on 5th street (the street of man, hmm), and grabbed a few bottles of wine and hiked up the lovely Bernal Heights. Though the city is pretty in the morning (which it wasn't) as you can see from the borrowed photo above, it is SPEC-TACULAR at night. The fog creeping over the city, the innumberable lights... Bernal heights is postioned such that you can have a 360-degree view of nearly the entire city, all within the space of a 5-minute walk around the summit (while being blasted by enough cell phone towers to make you glow for weeks).

After three or four hours of sleep, I woke up two hours later than i was supposed to, and drove to Sacramento and pickedup a old-friend who was traveling down through California.

Then, after 20+ hours awake, 11+ of that being on the road, and a nice long visit at LuluCarpenter's (coffee shop) in Santa Cruz with HeraclitusChanging, I found myself back in Southern California, just for a few days i promise. I'm sure I'm leaving out something, but there you have it.