Long Time No Blog

I often find that if I take a couple of weeks off from blogging I come back to it with a renewed interest. As soon as I start feeling like it's a chore I take some time off, and I've always found myself coming back. Part of it is the self-reverential component, but it's also great to have a journal that I can look back on. When I go back and read my postings over the years, it brings up a lot of memories that I might otherwise have forgotten.

Fiona and I have decided to stay in San Francisco for a while. We're both really enjoying this city, and we've already made a lot of good friends. This place is so vibrant and full of cool stuff to do, it's hard to imagine wanting to live anywhere else right now. Last night I went to see a movie with my buddy Skylar that I don't think I could have caught anywhere else (except maybe NYC). It was a BBC-style documentary based from the assumption that the South won the civil war and slavery is still legal in America. Skylar's gets his think on over at his blog (if you look real hard there's a photo of Fiona and I on the right side of the page).

A few weeks ago we moved into a new apartment with college basketball superstar Joe Kirchofer:

Joe is an outstanding young man, who is very competitive and has a great court presence and attitude ... A natural shot blocker, a great rebounder and an excellent scorer ... Can face up and shoot the ball up to 17 feet ... He is also good with his back to the basket, and handles the ball well for a player his size ... But more importantly, Joe is a great young man ... One in a million.

That picture looks like it was taken right after Joe found out he'd been drafted by the Knicks. In everyday life he's a little more expressive than that. There are a lot of nice things about living with a dude who's 6'9". For one, he keeps all his food on the top shelves of the cabinets, so the low shelves are free for us shrimps. The down side is that we can't steal his food unless we jump, and sometimes not even then.

We're also living with a guy named John, but he hasn't moved in yet so I don't have much to say about that. For what is worth this is where we live.

Slowly but surely we're accruing furniture. We've had a couple of big adventures at Carl's place that have resulted in a lot of goodies. He's given us a printer, a scanner, a desk, a bunch of deadly knives, and a Jack LaLanne Deluxe Juicer. Man, is that thing awesome. I've been juicing everything, and there's no sign of stopping. There are so many juiceable things in this world - I can't believe I've been living in the dark for so long.

The biggest score to date though is our amazing bed. Two weeks ago Fiona went down to work from Premal's house in Palo Alto on a Saturday, and while she was out I scored off craigslist. I got a queen-sized box spring, mattress, bed frame, brass headboard, down comforter, two sets of Pottery Barn sheets, a down mattress pad, a nice blanket and four big squishy pillows for 50 bucks!!.

I set it all up before she got home and she nearly crapped her pants when she walked into our bedroom. It was quite a change from the air mattress we'd been borrowing from Skylar.

So yeah, things are going well. We've got a bed, a juicer, work that's worth our time and a couple of cool new friends. You can't ask for much more than that.

Posted by flow Frazao on March 23, 2006 at 01:11 PM in Me | Permalink