Journals : 2005 : April
1 April 2005 | Link this
Apparently, Mark and I were both mentioned Wednesday in the Fresno Bee's weblog, which is sort of cool, especially since it's the first time in recent memory that anyone's paid attention to somthing of mine other than this site...
BTW, is the pope dead yet? There hasn't been an update on the news in the past eight seconds or so, and I was getting a little antsy...
10 April 2005 | Link this
Shaver Lake. Yes, there was that much snow left, even this late in the season. In fact, it was snowing as we drove into town...
24 April 2005 | Link this
A very quick trip to North Carolina, where we obtained an apartment and this lovely license plate...
25 April 2005 | Link this
An apartment has been rented. The DMV has been notified. Banking relationships have been estabished. And my mom is putting aside little household items she finds on sale...
We'll be living less than a mile from a K&W Cafeteria very soon...
28 April 2005 | Link this
It may be a record: I was able to get from my apartment South of Market to a doctor's appointment in Pacific Heights, to the Financial District to do some banking and pick up a prescription, and back home all in two hours and five minutes this morning, using transit for every leg of the journey. And there was even a transfer involved...
If it were this easy to get around the city all the time, maybe it wouldn't suck quite so much to live here...
28 April 2005 Later | Link this
Can someone offer a suggestion as to why Republican legislators, most of whom would not sit still for increased government regulation of any other business or industry, are so hog wild over a bill to require mandatory drug testing of professional athletes, not to mention mandatory disciplinary procedures for these private sector employees?
Oh wait. We’re talking about the same Republican party that wants to free all citizens from unnescessary government intrusion into their lives. Except, of course, when the intrusion involves mandating to whom one may be legally married. Or what one might watch on TV or listen on the radio. Or whether one may or may not make one's own decision about bearing children...
Yes, there are also numerous Democrats supporting this moronic piece of legislation as well, and God knows the left is no stranger to inconsistency and hypocrisy, but in this instance, the Dems at least come off merely as garden variety idiots. The Republican supporters, on the other hand, look like hypocrites AND idiots...
Of course, as my hubby suggested, taxpayers are expected to support and subsidize so much of professional sports already that it might not be such a stretch to view it as a quasi-government institution subject to the whims of Congress...
29 April 2005 Even later | Link this
Forgot to link this the other day. Gave me such a chuckle that I'm amazed it appeared in the Chron...
29 April 2005 Still Later | Link this
I'm never exactly sure what I was thinking and feeling prior to the other major moves of my life, maybe because I was too busy actually moving, or preparing to move. I definitely wasn't being a particularly active journal-keeper during those times. I'm going to try to do better this time around.
Leaving San Francisco: the first in what may or may not be a relatively introspective (or maybe just rambling and pointless) series of essays on my departure from Sodom by the Bay...
30 April 2005 | Link this
Yes, now that you mention it, I DO realize that it's April instead of August, thanks...