It’s just before 10 am on the Pacific here in San Francisco, and while home is a mere 3,000 miles away now in Arlington, a new tradition born during my time on the east coast as perversed itself here on the opposite coastline. While this morning, I opened presents from my family and from “santa”, [...]
I had real sourdough for the first time in God knows how long yesterday. It was amazing. I went with my parents to perhaps the most amazing grocery store I’ve ever seen in my life called Draegers. Think of it as a regular supermarket combined with a Whole Foods combined with a Beverages and More [...]
A couple of notes from Friday, December 14, 2007 in Washington, DC: – After lunch, I was off to a meeting with another association in Washington, DC that was dealing with the sub-prime lending crisis. On my way there, I spotted CBS News’ Bob Schieffer at the corner of I and 17th Northwest. After spotting [...]
Today in Washington: – I was delayed for lunch by the penguin, better known as Dick Cheney. His damn motorcade was blazing up 17th St. past I St. at Farragut Square. I turned to Melissa and said, “I wonder what jackass we’re letting through this time”…. sure enough, the penguin was in the backseat leaning [...]