This is funny. You can retire to New York City when… 1. You say “the city” and expect everyone to know you mean Manhattan. 2. You can get into a four-hour argument about how to get from Columbus Circle to…
Archives for October 2010
I Heart the Situation
Immediately after last Saturday’s World Series game, we rushed to the Jug Shop in Russian Hill on Polk Street where Mike “The Situation” Sorrentino was signing $27 bottles of Devotion vodka. I have the biggest crush on this reality TV…
SF Giants World Series 2010
It’s been a wild ride indeed. Me, Dean, and Rob watched the game in front of City Hall. Gavin had promised a setup like the World Cup. Bullshit. There were two mega-screens for the world cup games. But for the…
Non-Stop Schedule and Some Thoughts on Loyalty
There has been so much going on with my family’s funeral, the World Series, Halloween, and the election tomorrow that I haven’t had a chance to chillax. Plus a recruiter contacted me for a position that I’d be interested in,…
No Need to Translate
I rode in a van with my parents and other family members to my great-uncle’s funeral. Everyone spoke in our native language, Ilocano. I thought it was so fascinating to understand everything they were saying–even though I’m no longer surrounded…
A Life of Honor
I took Friday off to attend my great-uncle’s funeral in Seaside yesterday. What an honorable man. It’s so strange to grow up with someone and not realize how accomplished he is until his death. First of all, the 93-year-old man…
World Series in San Francisco!
I really didn’t think we were going to stomp on the Rangers the way we did last night. Incroyable! It’s Giants madness all over Northern California. I’m so locked into watching these games that my productivity has gone out the…
Baseball and Religion
By the time we finished my caesar salad and Dean’s seafood linguini for a very late lunch borderline dinner, it was already 4:30pm—first pitch for Game 6 of the NLCS. We’d gotten carried away wine tasting and I hadn’t allotted…
Dress Up
I think San Francisco is the #1 city for getting dolled up on more occasions than any other place. There are all the Halloween parties. There’s the Bay to Breakers–should you choose to be clothed. There’s the Castro on any…
Charming Carmel Valley
Let me emphasize that Carmel Valley is NOT Carmel. They’re adjacent towns, but separate and completely different in character. Carmel is overrun with tourists. It’s the kind of place that has a ton of galleries selling shitty, exorbitantly-priced artwork. I…