So, these are a couple months old at this point. It was Cynthia’s 70th birthday. We celebrated over a long weekend in Estes Park, Colorado, staying in a house up on the hill. It was really a beautiful place and my inherited family is really good company. Since this is a photo heavy post, I’m gonna let the captions tell the story
The view from the house we were staying in. Not too shabby. 
This is the view from our private balcony. 
The deck, replete with celebrating relatives. From top right: Marilyn, Stan, Sarah, Lisa, Richard, and facing away from camera: Sally, Sophia, and Diana. 
Marilyn and Richard. That’s not cool-aid in those cups. 
70 years strong. 
And then, later in the night, a herd of elk wandered by. 
Day 2: Walking to lunch in town. 
I really didn’t get tired of this view at all. 
I think this was also day 2. We drove up into the park (Rocky Mountain National Park), and went on a little hike. When the hike starts at 12000 feet, it’s no small feat to get to the top. 
Getting Down is the easy part, they said. 
Then we went for another hike, this on blessedly flat and only at about 8000 feet. 
With a bonus: gorgeous mountain lake. 
Perfect for photo ops. 
Our last day we went to New Belgium before heading to the airport, and they had what may be the best custom bicycle ever. 
Semi-gratuitous plane window picture 
And a bridge, out over the delta.
Posted on 2016-11-01T11:02:18Z GMT
It’s been a busy month or two. There have now been 3(?) dinner clubs. I’ve taken trips to Colorado, Mono Lake, and now I’m in NYC. I’ve written a big part of a two-day curriculum in Elixir, and I’m teaching it in two weeks. I started building a laptop when mine was down for two weeks. I did another version of the watch, this time with expansion headers instead of any of the other things I’ve been worried about including.
All that to say, I’ve been doing a ton more than I used to, mostly thanks to my use of calendaring, but also due to an unhealthy lack of sleep that I need to work on for the next little bit, if I’m to survive the winter. I may not be on the social media as much. I posted some things yesterday, but largely ignored email and notifications, and it was not a bad way to get through the day. Since facebook is pushing people to messenger to get their messages, I may deactivate mine again soon. Winter hibernation, at least.
The pictures: these are random as hell, but, one of the best things to happen to me recently was reconnecting with a friend from college, Christine (2nd image). We had lunch at Drake’s, downtown Oakland, where they have a pretty good nitro cold brew. I can also confidently report that she is a pretty rad person.
Up next: a bunch of pictures of my in-laws, and also beautiful Colorado.
Posted on 2016-11-01T10:13:24Z GMT
So, this may be the last of the random posts. I started using my calendar , so I’ve been doing a lot more sort of structured activities; show up, do something, take some pictures, and go home. Usually with drinking. It would be thoroughly impossible to get done all the stuff I’ve done in the past month without it. A toolbox for my time, wherein I get organized and can do more. And ignore it when I need to.
The photos: starting with a lunch walk int and out of North Beach (where we sometimes go for pizza). Hipshot and then not. That last one, the “I want to believe in myself” patch, I want that patch. Then, a woman walking away from the montgomery bart, walking in front of the waste ground that used to be a parking lot. It may be again, some day. Then there are the photos of Adam’s birthday, him and Annie and then Adam and a friend in the second frame. And then a wall of flowers that I found somewhere. Some day, I’ll figure out how to make captions work here, and all of these little descriptions will just go next to the photos. until that day.
Posted on 2016-09-15T20:17:46Z GMT
