I made brownies tonight. I’m taking them with us to Pablo and Lisa’s tomorrow for a cookout. Today I finished watching the first DVD of the Julia Child collection. The second half of the DVD’s episodes are in color, and from 1970, meaning Julia has aged nine years. Man she was just so wonderful. I […]

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So yesterday we went sailing with Pablo and Lisa. They have this 28-foot sailboat at the Berkeley Marina. That size is about right for five people, four sitting in the stern and one in the cabin. We anticipated a nice sail and sunny weather. Well, it was sunny! The thing about the bay area is […]

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I watched episode one (“The Potato Show”) of Julia Child’s first cooking show, The French Chef, last night. I Netflixed the whole series. It was originally taped in black and white (such a poor medium for a food show!). It was so incredibly charming. There were numerous technical issues — the show was filmed “live” […]

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People are starting to leave the office already. Get a head start on the 3-day weekend I suppose. I’m hoping I get to go in 15 minutes, we’ll see. It’s sunny outside but from my window to the west I can see the giant bank of fog still sleeping on my neighborhood.

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Here is Bobby Kielty, who plays baseball for the Oakland A’s. He’s been hitting a lot of doubles lately and his batting average is near .300. photo by Barry Zito His hair is a bit bigger than that now.

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Front-page headline of the Chronicle today: PRESIDENT URGES AMERICANS TO REMEMBER 9-11. Man, I had TOTALLY forgotten about that! Wow. It just slipped my mind. Silly me! That was the thing with the airplanes and the uh… World Trade Towers, right? Thanks Mr. Bush! I think we would have all forgotten about that day, if […]

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Again very foggy and dreary this morning. Ah, summer. The trains were all stacked up as usual. So one passed, already full, at my stop. I got on the next one and got a seat. The only reason I sat down (I usually opt to stand) is because I brought my footstool to work with […]

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I fell asleep last night listening to 1510AM, which is a radio station I wish I had discovered much, much earlier as they are about to go off the air on Thursday night. They’ll be replaced by KPIG, a station broadcasting from Santa Cruz, which apparently plays a mix of reggae, Hawaiian, zydeco, blues, and […]

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Yesterday I didn’t do much, just a few house chores, a walk to Cole Valley hardware, made dinner, waited for Brian to get home from work. Then we watched “Rabbit-Proof Fence,” which was a very good movie that has now entered the very small and private club known as “movies that have made Jane cry.” […]

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Congratulations to my man on his awesome raise and promotion. YOU WIN, BUDDY!! You’re the winner! My boss is sitting in the cube next to mine fretting about how she can’t buy a house and the real estate market and how this one house is $750,000 and so on. Which is just stupid. I read […]

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