Monday, September 7, 2009
A Day in the Life of a Kid in Marin
Today's Labor Day activities included: skateboarding at the coolest skate park ever; batting cages for the Boy; soccer fest at the local recreation center; swimming at the local pool; playing at an area park and dinner at PF Changs. These kids are so damn lucky and still they find something to complain about. I never complained about a thing when I was a kid - right dad? That's a rhetorical question by the way. No answr necessary. In other news today is my 13th wedding anniversary. Big ups to the Wife for putting up with me for this long. Seriously. I don't know how she does it. But she's a great Wife and a better mother and I love her more than anything. Happy anniversary Wife!
Sunday, September 6, 2009
Go Little Boy, Go
We did a family 5k this morning in San Francisco. It was a flat but windy course and the Little Boy showed great determination. His goal was to be his previous best of 31 and he did that and more with a time of 28:40 and a win in his age group. He's definitely a runner though he doesnt quite know it yet. His sister had a tougher go of it but still finished in 35 minutes. Not too bad for a 7 year old. I'm proud of them both for just making it to the starting line. Same goes for the Wife.
Friday, September 4, 2009
Bond. James Bond.
I'm at dinner with two fifth grade boys both of whom are going through a huge James Bond phase. They just posed to me one of life's most critical questions: what is your favorite James Bond movie? And who's the best Bond? After some introspection I've decided my favorite is The Man with The Golden Gun. And Sean Connery. Definitely Sean Connery. Your opinions on this matter would be greatly appreciated by the Boys.
Cascade Trail: A Pictorial
Ran the Cascade Trail today with the wife. The hardest part is running the three sets of Dipsea Steps, which is the equivalent of climbing a 50 story building. After the steps it levels off and is pretty much flat, though in certain areas it's somewhat technical. It's one of my favorite forest trails and is stunningly beautiful.
Thursday, September 3, 2009
Shameless Plug
A shameless plug to remind you all to please check out www.techdork.com. We have a good number of posts and have had some good feedback but we are kind of lacking a bit on the traffic department. Not that it matters, really. Its been a fun exercise thus far and it's good for me to start critically thinking and articulating my thoughts on a range of issues that are tangentially related to work.
Speaking of work, rough week. That's all I will say on that. As you all know, I never write about work on this site and don't intend to start, but I will say this: it's been a doozie of a few weeks. The Wife and I are going to break away next weekend to go to Las Vegas for a few days of R&R. While I'd frankly rather go somewhere a bit more relaxing, I will also take what I can get.
What else is new? Let's see. I got the new Jay-Z album from one of my friends and thus far, it's pretty good. And I am getting deeper into my new book, The Girl Who Played with Fire and that is also good. And I'm looking down the barrel at a long weekend and that too, my friends, is good. Think I will kick it off in a few moments with a Macallan 12, neat. That's scotch talk for all you non-drinkers.
Speaking of work, rough week. That's all I will say on that. As you all know, I never write about work on this site and don't intend to start, but I will say this: it's been a doozie of a few weeks. The Wife and I are going to break away next weekend to go to Las Vegas for a few days of R&R. While I'd frankly rather go somewhere a bit more relaxing, I will also take what I can get.
What else is new? Let's see. I got the new Jay-Z album from one of my friends and thus far, it's pretty good. And I am getting deeper into my new book, The Girl Who Played with Fire and that is also good. And I'm looking down the barrel at a long weekend and that too, my friends, is good. Think I will kick it off in a few moments with a Macallan 12, neat. That's scotch talk for all you non-drinkers.
Tuesday, September 1, 2009
Sweet Home Chicago
At the airport getting set to return back home to SF from a whirlwind two days. I love Chicago -- as you all know it wil always be the hometown for my two kids -- but something is seriously amiss with the weather. Chicago winters you all probably know about, but summer's are generally fantastic. So good, that they almost make putting up with winter a worthwhile endeavour. And usually late August is peak season; solid 80's and hot.
But not this time. I went running this am and the weather was decidedly San Francisco-like. As in high 50's, low 60's. IT didn't get a whole heck of a lot warmer througout the day either. And that ain't right. My boy Dave tells me the water temperature this weekend for the Chicago triathlon was in the high 50's. It is usually in the 70's. So anyway -- I am not sure exactly what is going on -- perhaps it's a meteorological anomaly -- but just between you and I, I'm kind of glad I got out of dodge when I did four years ago.
Said with respect of course.
But not this time. I went running this am and the weather was decidedly San Francisco-like. As in high 50's, low 60's. IT didn't get a whole heck of a lot warmer througout the day either. And that ain't right. My boy Dave tells me the water temperature this weekend for the Chicago triathlon was in the high 50's. It is usually in the 70's. So anyway -- I am not sure exactly what is going on -- perhaps it's a meteorological anomaly -- but just between you and I, I'm kind of glad I got out of dodge when I did four years ago.
Said with respect of course.
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