My blog posts on the heat are topped by a Jon Carroll column. I don’t mind when he does it better; I’m just glad I get to read him. He’s right on, once again. Another “he” who done good: my boss wrote a song that’s worth checking out. You may recall from earlier posts that […]
…two cats and a dog all do their dead-horse impressions within feet of each other in what they’ve decided is the coolest room in the house. …your black lab is too tired to get up and ask for a bite of your hot dog. …your cat decides that the granite countertop is a good place […]
It’s been wicked hot here since Friday. Usually on the few days a year that this area gets hot, we get coastal fog by nightfall to cool it all back down again, and those days are usually at least in August if not September or October. July in SF is famously the coldest winter Mark […]
Sorry about that broken link to the Deck: Before and After, Jr. photo collection. It’s fixed now. It’s bloody hot here–too hot to think clearly or accomplish anything. I need to cobble together some kind of swamp-cooler for the baking kitties.
After Jon and George and Russ and the guys finished my kitchen, way back in the fall of 2004, George tore out the rotten, ugly, hideous, cheap-ass deck-facsimile that had been his route for supply-hauling and so on for the five months he’d been slaving on my kitchen, and he built me a beautiful redwood […]
V got a shiny new silver baby!
I moved my blog to blogspot, because I was fed up with all the glitches and gotchas of trying to keep this thing together on my comcast homepage. A URL that’s easier to remember is a nice bonus for the switch: http://erinvang.blogspot.com/. (Don’t click that; you’re already here.) Here are feed options, for those who […]
Victoria and I were having martinis (Beefeater, of course), and fortunately I happened to have my camera within arm’s reach when Gjetost the Cheese Kitty started trying to finish my martini. I think she was after the olive more than the remaining gin vapors, but you never know. And because I can, here’s a video […]
My site-traffic widget reports that my readership is smallish but much larger than I’d expect, which is to say greater than the six readers or so that could be accounted for by my family, and there’s even a fair amount of return traffic from people who live places where I don’t know people, so some […]
My airline kharma has been interesting lately. I passed the 50K butt miles mark sometime in May, meaning I’ve already passed my usual annual mileage, so my upgrade status is coming along nicely. For many of my recent segments endured during nine consecutive weeks of business travel, I’ve been getting upgraded to business a lot. […]