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Le Trip So Far
2009-07-13 03:00Mostly too busy to spend much time online. I keep up with webcomics, NY Times headlines, and sort-of-Facebook. And coordination e-mail. RPG.net is just piling up unread.
Trip went fine. Food options on Delta 5 hour flight were free drink and peanuts or cookies, and various sandwiches or snack boxes for sale. I had my pita and hummus instead. I also ran into Sara and Heather from the LARP in the Cinci airport, on their way back to Bton from Wales. That was unexpected!
I got to experience the SFO BART, which didn't exist when I left. They need more of a people mover to get you to the people mover (AirTrain) that gets you to BART, but otherwise, sweeeet. Though my first BART car still had that... smell. I got homesick at various sights.
Hanging out with Blake and his girlfriend has been cool. I miss people here.
I've had okay dim sum in Chinatown, been scared away by lines at the California Academy of Science, and enjoyed the de Young art museum (new building) despite their searching my backpack (totally ineffectively) and making me carry it in my hands (so not packed for that.) I found a really need glassworks room, and some nice landscapes. The Conservatory of Flowers is open at long last, but closed by the time I realized that, and not open Monday, and my weekend was booked. Sadface. 5 bus to the beach, and a short hike up to Point Lobos, where I saw a pelican really up close. Musee Mecanique has moved to Pier 45, apparently. Then I went 'home' and got taken to my first south Indian restaurant, featuring dosas. Not bad.
I've borrowed Joseph Stiglitz's Globalization and its Discontents, which has been pretty good reading. Short version: the IMF sucks. World Bank is okay, be better if it didn't listen to the uninformed anti-Keynesian market fundamentalism of the IMF. Which is sadly funny, since Keynes established the IMF, or at least the idea (I forget; something key.)
I also bought the worst Odwalla OJ ever from Safeway. Totally mediocre.
That was Friday. Saturday was the 'new' Ferry Building Farmers' Market, with like a dozen+ named varieties of peaches, and lots of heirloom tomatoes I haven't even sampled yet, and general hugeness. My honey date source wasn't there, though. Then I saw Rainbow Food for the first time. At least some gluten-free stuff there, I noted in passing. Then down south for the G&S party. The girls said they didn't remember me from Christmas but we fell into old patterns soon enough, so I wonder. Saw various old Techers, enjoyed the really good butter and bread and blackberries I'd bought at the Market. Visit was a bit short if I'd flown out only for that, fortunately they're the catalyst, not the sole reason.
Today I saw an old family friend -- and at Peet's had the WORST SENCHA EVER -- and my other half-sister, and that set of niblings, first time in 8 years. That was fun, and we ate at a pretty good Thai restaurant, and introduced them to fish cakes. A word game, Quiddler, broke some of the stranger-tension before dinner.
Tomorrow (Monday), maybe the CAS again? A shoe store, because my sandals are disintegrating? Dim sum dinner with whoever makes it? Then something in Portland, and who knows what in LA.
Today's Girl Genius: I did't expect ANY of that. *head explodes*
Trip went fine. Food options on Delta 5 hour flight were free drink and peanuts or cookies, and various sandwiches or snack boxes for sale. I had my pita and hummus instead. I also ran into Sara and Heather from the LARP in the Cinci airport, on their way back to Bton from Wales. That was unexpected!
I got to experience the SFO BART, which didn't exist when I left. They need more of a people mover to get you to the people mover (AirTrain) that gets you to BART, but otherwise, sweeeet. Though my first BART car still had that... smell. I got homesick at various sights.
Hanging out with Blake and his girlfriend has been cool. I miss people here.
I've had okay dim sum in Chinatown, been scared away by lines at the California Academy of Science, and enjoyed the de Young art museum (new building) despite their searching my backpack (totally ineffectively) and making me carry it in my hands (so not packed for that.) I found a really need glassworks room, and some nice landscapes. The Conservatory of Flowers is open at long last, but closed by the time I realized that, and not open Monday, and my weekend was booked. Sadface. 5 bus to the beach, and a short hike up to Point Lobos, where I saw a pelican really up close. Musee Mecanique has moved to Pier 45, apparently. Then I went 'home' and got taken to my first south Indian restaurant, featuring dosas. Not bad.
I've borrowed Joseph Stiglitz's Globalization and its Discontents, which has been pretty good reading. Short version: the IMF sucks. World Bank is okay, be better if it didn't listen to the uninformed anti-Keynesian market fundamentalism of the IMF. Which is sadly funny, since Keynes established the IMF, or at least the idea (I forget; something key.)
I also bought the worst Odwalla OJ ever from Safeway. Totally mediocre.
That was Friday. Saturday was the 'new' Ferry Building Farmers' Market, with like a dozen+ named varieties of peaches, and lots of heirloom tomatoes I haven't even sampled yet, and general hugeness. My honey date source wasn't there, though. Then I saw Rainbow Food for the first time. At least some gluten-free stuff there, I noted in passing. Then down south for the G&S party. The girls said they didn't remember me from Christmas but we fell into old patterns soon enough, so I wonder. Saw various old Techers, enjoyed the really good butter and bread and blackberries I'd bought at the Market. Visit was a bit short if I'd flown out only for that, fortunately they're the catalyst, not the sole reason.
Today I saw an old family friend -- and at Peet's had the WORST SENCHA EVER -- and my other half-sister, and that set of niblings, first time in 8 years. That was fun, and we ate at a pretty good Thai restaurant, and introduced them to fish cakes. A word game, Quiddler, broke some of the stranger-tension before dinner.
Tomorrow (Monday), maybe the CAS again? A shoe store, because my sandals are disintegrating? Dim sum dinner with whoever makes it? Then something in Portland, and who knows what in LA.
Today's Girl Genius: I did't expect ANY of that. *head explodes*