unethical blogger

Quite the mixed bag today has been, I went to court (more on that later), I signed a lease (more on that later too), and I worked from home. Since ET and I are leaving this apartment soon, the management company has been showing the apartment during the day. Not a big deal, strangers walk around the apartment, all the windows are opened, all the lights are turned on, doors are opened and closed and if you're lucky enough to be around, you get to field questions.

About an hour or two after the showing of the apartment was over, ET looks up from the couch and asks "Where's Buddy" (a.k.a. Fatso). After looking in all of the usual hiding places, she grabs a can of food and taps the lid and listens. A faint meowing is heard. She opens the closet door and taps the lid again. Meow, meow, meow. I think to myself "no way in hell is that cat in the closet, so I hold the can out the window and tap, tap, tap. Meows are coming from outside of the bathroom window. Our bathroom window opens onto this tiny area between two buildings, and is rarely opened because the view sucks, and we don't stink up our bathroom too much.

Not entirely sure where the cat is, I go to the other side of this little area, in the buildings stairwell and open the window, climb out, and poke around for Fatso, a.k.a Buddy, a.k.a Missing Kitty #1. I can't see Fatso at all but I can hear him. I tapped on the hood for the ventilation shaft and I hear meowing. I tap again, meowing. Reaching my hand around under the hood, I hear more meowing but I don't feel anything.

Thanks to a flashlight and mirror loaned from a friendly neighbor, who's more earthquake prepared than ET and I, I was able to look down the ventilation shaft.

A few weekends ago ET and I had some engagement photos taken, I'm told this is normal, by the husband-and-wife team from Tibidabo Photography, Bob and Becky. The duo met us at one of my favorite spots in San Francisco: Duboce Ave and Buena Vista Ave East after which we ran around in Buena Vista Park taking a few shots, then down to Baker Beach. As much as I hate having my picture taken, they did a wonderful job and grabbed some really stellar shots.

While I don't carry a decent camera around with me, I've found that the camera in my Samsung Jack is usually decent enough if I can hold my hands still (rare). Ended up snapping a few photos today and wanted to post them with a little bit of story behind them.

My bike route to the office takes me up and down Page St. which runs into Market St. just on the other side of Van Ness Ave. I never saw the accident or another car, I just saw a couple of cops and tow-truck guys standing around this flipped car on the turn from inbound Market St. onto Franklin St. I didn't see any damage on the vehicle so I'm still quite puzzled how it was flipped and which direction it could have possibly been heading.

I picked these two figures up from Kid Robot for Apture's Christmas Secret Santa, they ended up going to Josh who didn't take them with him for whatever reason. I've since moved them to a more visible location (right below the Hudson dashboard).

Given the cloud cover that I normally ride home through I was quite surprised to see clear skies over Twin Peaks on my ride home. Of course, it is still February, so the clouds were still there, creeping along the ground.