travel day

leaving for London this evening. will try to stay in touch.

LOLcharleys

my visit to Angwin, CA

so, my friend Tyler suggested I take a trip out to Angwin, California. I'm still not sure why, but I said I would, and that I'd take pictures...

this is the town's sign:


here is the town's fire department:


trees:


more trees (there are a lot of them):


the store:


a house, labelled "private residence":


a sign at the airport:


another sign at the airport:


a truck at the airport:


looking south from the main road out of town:


broken highway reflector:


the side of my car:


lake henessey through a 300mm lens (it's about six miles from where I was standing):


some trash in a field:


the sun beating down on the roadway:

coop turns 50

I'm a little late with this post, but coop turned 50 on august 7th!

amanda knitted me a dalek!

isn't he the cutest?

alarmed car

I hate car alarms.

I think everyone hates car alarms.

I don't think anyone pays any attention to a car that is being alarming.

oh, and my car? it has an alarm.

it has an alarm that is so clever and Teutonic that the moth that wandered into my vehicle on the way home last night could set it off.

over and over and over and over and over and over...

the neighbours must have hated me. I went out on a bike ride, and returned 11 miles later to the unnervingly familiar sound of my car alarming. (I've set it off a couple of times, it's LOUD)

I ran into the house, grabbed the key fob and turned off the alarm.

Then I opened the garage, jumped into the car to put it away.

And out flew the moth.

memo to self: remove moths before locking car

coop is racking up the miles...

on december 11, 2007, he turned 40,000:


then on may 16, 2008, he turned 46,460:

(I just liked the number combo, thinking about it now, I should have waited four more miles)


this morning, july 10, 2008, he turned 49,000:


... we're coming up on the big half-century!

some sites I love

apostrophe abuse

thanks, no

the blog of unnecessary quotation marks

I CAN HAS CHEEZBURGER?

some random pictures

this is us using miles as a pickup, back seat filled with lumber:



a picture of coop with a buddy who was quite possibly on the same boat over here:



coop sitting in the driveway, enjoying the afternoon sun:



crazy sony STR-DA4300ES DMPORT screen, when hooked up to an iPhone:

MakerFaire 2008

advice to heed if you're going to go to MakerFaire 2009;

1) take public transport, or get there very early or quite late

2) do not forget to take a real camera

ok. once we got there, it was cool. the map confounded me for some time, but eventually we were able to move around with ease.

lurking in the hidden Disney corner, we found all kinds of cool stuff:



a large, static Wall•E

and a smaller, dancing Wall•E

miniature model walkthrough of Disney•Pixar's
Monsters, Inc. Mike & Sulley to the Rescue!

the prototype snake from
Disneyland's Indiana Jones Adventure

um. cupcakemobiles?


more


without the muffin top

we actually went to MakerFaire on 20080503

Napa Tour de Cure

should have posted last night, but, well, couldn't really walk.

I have one picture to share, but I'm not smart enough to upload it right now.

In the meantime, check out the Craigslist Rigshock Riders 100 mile ride pictures

and here's the one picture I took at the rest stop, about 15 miles into our 25 mile total...




Tour de Cure Napa 2008 was actually on 20080504

our trip to Sugarloaf Ridge State Park...

this is a view from the "hillside trail" overlook. very pretty. we figured we'd walk around the bottom of the valley and then go visit the waterfall...


one of the best signs I've ever seen in a public park


broken piece of the observatory?


at the bottom of the waterfall


a little further up


about half-way up


a pretty pool of water somewhere near the top

how do you know you live in the country?

when, during your morning commute into Corporate America, you have to wait
as the local farmer drives his tractor along your commute route...

Limantour Beach, Point Reyes National Seashore

looking south into the sun, after our trek out from the hostel parking lot

pool of water, Point Reyes National Seashore

this really caught my eye, so I bounded across the thick, heavy grass to get a close up. as I took the first picture (not shown here), I felt my weight shift a little. I looked down to my right foot, and saw it underwater... I had stepped into the edge of the pool, but my waterproof hiking boots had kept my foot dry!


they came real handy in the sand, later, too...

SFMoMA, looking up

I love this museum so much. I also used the overhead walkway to judge how well I was able to conquer my fear of heights. the day I was able to walk across it without holding on to the handrail, and then stop and look down... that was when I knew I was ok with the whole being-5-stories-off-the-ground thing.

It would appear that there is currently a multi-colored glass tunnel installed up there right now...

coop self portrait

caught this on I80, somewhere in/near Sacramento. couldn't resist

COPIA in Napa

from the street, looking back at the water feature

on my way back from the dentist today...

what a beautiful view

friday

brings out the craziness in people.

two people couldn't login today
another couldn't drag something

wow.

maybe it's the whole leap day thing?

wet cat tail