Oct - 18th
Blogging Live from the Apple Store
Posted at 6:43 pm | Filed Under Uncategorized
I am here at the Emeryville Apple Store trying to determine if the backlit keyboard is worth $300 (plus a little faster processor and a little more storage). I don't see that MacBook on display here, but I guess I can figure out its worth on the MacBook Pro. I have already gotten used to [...]
Sep - 15th
Blogging Live from New Orleans
Posted at 9:51 pm | Filed Under Travels
At first I thought New Orleans, or New New Orleans, whatever, was a lot like Saint Louis, but I was greatly mistaken. I foolishly made my way to the waterfront, and just like Saint Louis, there really is none, except for a walkway (which was nice, although nothing special), but what more could you ask [...]
Apr - 26th
Blogging Live from the Apple Store
Posted at 4:50 pm | Filed Under Uncategorized
I am at the Apple Store in Emeryville while my wife does some weekend shopping. This is officially the first day of summer in the Bay Area -- eighty degrees and sunny; the grasses are now becoming a burnt brown, and will be a major fire hazard later in the year.
I am considering -- I [...]
Mar - 26th
Blogging Live from the Hilton Ballpark
Posted at 10:22 am | Filed Under Uncategorized
There seems to be a distinct baseball theme to this hotel. The internet costs $10 here each day, but it is free in the lobby. Some more thoughts of the greatest city in the Midwest, after Chicago...
I had a local pale ale -- Schlafly -- and it was very good. Well, more than one. Great [...]
Mar - 24th
Blogging Live from St. Louis
Posted at 9:08 pm | Filed Under Uncategorized
Paying for internet access is so primitive. I mean, what is this, 2002? Saint Louis, from my initial perspective, complete with San Francisco liberal elitist bias, is classic mid-west, blue-collar. A lot of open space.
The downtown is up and coming, and the new ballpark is gorgeous (it is right across the street from my hotel). [...]
Mar - 17th
Blogging Live from a Public Library
Posted at 5:57 pm | Filed Under Uncategorized
I am here at my local public library, and I'm using the internet. Better yet, I am blogging from my local public library. Why? I am not so sure, but it mostly has to do with the fact that I have time to kill.
Well, there you have it, the great blogging experiment has now concluded.
Until [...]
Oct - 27th
Blogging Live from the Apple Store
Posted at 12:18 pm | Filed Under Uncategorized
Every few months, or in my case, once a year, it is time to do some shopping. And starting a new job always requires a new shirt or two. I am here with the wife in Emeryville, home of Pixar, and the greatest outdoor shopping experience in the East Bay. I'll admit that I'm an [...]
Oct - 9th
Blogging Live from Hercules
Posted at 10:19 pm | Filed Under Uncategorized
When I do go out of town for a certain period of time, away for some reason or another, away from my computer or the internet, in general, I wonder how much I am going to miss and the political goings-on that I will not be able to blog about as a result. But then [...]
Oct - 7th
Blogging Live from Doylestown
Posted at 6:48 am | Filed Under Uncategorized
My older (and only) brother got married last night at a bed & breakfast in eastern Pennsylvania, outside of Philadelphia. I served as his best man and I believe I performed well in my duties. The evening was unseasonably warm, and the dance floor, which took place in a barn, served as a convectional oven [...]
Oct - 4th
Blogging Live from Ewing
Posted at 11:05 am | Filed Under Uncategorized
We have returned to the gentle state of New Jersey from Annapolis, which was very nice, but warm and moist, although the local news reported it as being "dry."
A few more thoughts...
- People on the east coast must not have received the memo: smoking is not cool.
- Access to the waterfront on the Atlantic is [...]
Oct - 2nd
Blogging Live from Yonkers
Posted at 4:29 pm | Filed Under Uncategorized
We drove back from Boston this afternoon, stopping at my younger sister's place in Stamford, Connecticut, and now we are at my older sister's new place in Yonkers, New York.
A few thoughts on the trip so far...
- It is cliche for a high school girl to be a witch in Salem, not for Halloween, but [...]
Sep - 30th
Blogging Live from Newtown
Posted at 7:41 am | Filed Under Uncategorized
I have been outside of Philadelphia the last two days living it up with my brother, a week before his wedding. (The Oxford dictionary defines wedding as the act of removing weeds from one's garden.)
My wife and I depart for Boston tomorrow. I'll be driving a Mazda. There's a first time for everything.
Blog later.
Aug - 22nd
Blogging Live from San Francisco
Posted at 5:47 pm | Filed Under A's Superfan Network
I'm in San Francisco for a classic Cubs-Giants game. Barry Bonds will not be going for the record, but the A's Superfan Network will be podcasting on the road. And there'll be drinking. Game-time: 7:15pm.
Jul - 8th
Blogging Live from Glen Park
Posted at 5:17 pm | Filed Under Uncategorized
I am here in a southern neighborhood in the city and county of San Francisco, at a good friend's house, for a dinner party to sample the wine and beer for their coming wedding. I'll be in the wedding party as a groom's man, my first opportunity to do so. (I will be the [...]
Jul - 4th
Blogging Live from Stanfurd
Posted at 12:19 pm | Filed Under Uncategorized
Here I am on the fourth of July, the fifth day from the second-to-last day in the month of June, at Leland Stanfurd Community College with the in-laws, as my lovely sister-in-law (Edyta) plans to apply to the graduate school of business. I, of course, am more of a Berkeley person, but hell, it's just [...]
Jun - 11th
Blogging Live from San Francisco
Posted at 5:50 pm | Filed Under Uncategorized
I'm here at a friend's business office, a stop along the way to tonight's San Francisco Giants / Toronto Blue Jays game, a classic in the making. As they say in San Francisco, "whenever the Giants face off against the Blue Jays, it is always a good one."
I'm the guest (again) of Tour for the [...]
Apr - 20th
Blogging Live from Philadelphia
Posted at 10:30 am | Filed Under Uncategorized
I have set up squatter's rights at my wife's younger sister's chic condo here in City Center Philadelphia. We took a train in from Trenton this afternoon and following a short few-blocks walk, we landed here at the Ellington. The room-with-a-view offers the Wii as entertainment. I took a shot at Wii tennis, then golf, [...]
Apr - 19th
Blogging Live from Newtown
Posted at 2:59 pm | Filed Under Uncategorized
I'm here in Newtown, Pennsylvania, where my brother lives, following a red-eye flight from SFO to Newark, and then a ride into Princeton for lunch (where my brother works) and the city next door to which my wife's parents live, my in-laws. My wife and I will be attending a wedding in Philadelphia this weekend, [...]
Sep - 14th
Blogging Live from Philadelphia
Posted at 2:34 pm | Filed Under Uncategorized
Borrowing my sister-to-be's laptop while staying here at the Marriott (high-speed internet access included with stay) has allowed me to catch up on a few things -- my dwindling checking account, my ever-increasing credit limit, and a few other odds-and-ends.
My fiancee (I will only be able to say that for one more day) and I [...]