I don't know why I did it. I wasn't hungry. All the trays of tasty finger foods were long since devoured. Except for a few stray pieces of cheese, some tortilla chip crumbs, and a couple big green slices of melon. Unusually attractive sweaty green melon.... Baking for hours in the late afternoon sun. I couldn't resist. How could anyone? ...Especially bacteria and other nasty things. It would seem they got to it before I did...... And I haven't been the same since.

One of the very few things I miss about St. Louis is summer thunderstorms... Sheets and sheets of rain with house rattling thunder claps and giant bolts of lightning ripping through the clouds.

You don't get that much around here -- At least not the thunder and lightning part. Maybe you'll get one or two good loud booms with an all day storm. There's almost never lightning.

...Except for last night. Apparently there's been some sort of "monsoonal air" moving through the bay area; causing a big storm around midnight. It was too far away to hear any thunder, but our third floor bedroom window provided an excellent view of the lightning. It was amazingly consistent.... Striking every two or three minutes... Always within the same few areas. The majority were smaller contained vertical strikes, but every five or so would be of the giant, horizontal, fingering off in every direction type. We must have laid there watching it for a good half an hour.

When I moved, I sent out an email to all sorts of people with my new address and phone number. Some people received it... Some people didn't. ...I'm not sure why.

If you think you should have received it, please let me know.

"No, I don't think that flash mobs as they currently happen are a big deal. As I see it, they are a result off the same urge that led kids to hold raves in the 90's: the urge to connect with people in real space and real time."

Douglas Rushkoff

Is there anything harder to install, than Macromedia demo software?

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I'm running into a few problems with my new blog template (such as it's not all here... and archives are a little funny for months that only have a handfull of entries)... but it's much too nice of a day to sit inside fixing them. Please tread lightly... maybe until the rainy season starts.

Lane's been here for less than a month and it might as well have been forever. We're still getting settled and adjusted and accustomed, but it never feels forced.

Every now and again I catch a glimpse of my life before -- By myself and living back at 2500 Sutter. It's seems so incredibly far away. ...Distant and small and cramped. Good times were had (some of the best), but it was reaching the end of a line.

It feels good to begin a new one, holding hands.

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