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Yesterday was an exhausting day, as Jen, Jess, Ben, and I participated in the Chinese New Year’s SF Treasure Hunt, a 4.5-hour journey around San Francisco solving complex riddles — while attempting to navigate around the parade route. This was the first time that any of us had participated in the hunt. As an added […]

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Last Saturday Jen donated her 1994 Oldsmobile Achieva to the American Lung Association. It had more than 104,000 miles on it and the interior lights would not turn off. Since driving the car across the country in 1999 when Jen left New York to move to California, we had only put several thousand miles on […]

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Toward the end of a really fun night out last night with a bunch of friends at Yancy’s Saloon on Irving (2nd party night this week!), Ben and I had an interesting encounter with some folks who were determined to push us off our comfy couch. Below is an excerpt from an IM conversation I […]

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Brrr…my hands are so cold I can barely type. I’m working from home again today (second day this week) so that my property manager Al and his pal Bud can fix our heater, which hasn’t worked since Jen and I moved into the new pad. Everything else is really great about this place (location, yard, […]

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I now know all too well that street cleaning on Judah St. where I live is Tuesday and Friday mornings from 7-8am. Last night I got a great parking spot in the neighboring building’s driveway (owned by same owner of my building and first-come, first-serve parking) and only half-noticed this morning while leaving for a […]

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The move to San Francisco is complete and I’m beat. Jen, Stella, Happy, and I are really loving the new apartment (we took a bunch of photos, which I’ll post here once the DSL is active at home). The last time I can remember having a weekend this busy was December 9 (Jen’s birthday!), when […]

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At long last, moving day has arrived. Jen and I brought over the first carload of stuff to our strange new San Francisco apartment last night and eagerly skipped up and down Irving St. enjoying how many cool restaurants, bars, cafes, bookshops line the street. We had a tasty (less-than-20-dollar) dinner at Pasquale’s, a pizzeria […]

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Good news tonight: Some cool folks are taking over the lease on our place! So now Jen and I can concentrate on the move with peace of mind. San Francisco here we come!

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Coinstar rules. Before getting dinner at Burritoville in San Anselmo tonight, Jen and I stopped by our local Mollie Stone’s to cash out a bag (my green purse, actually) of coins I’ve had since college. I had previously separated out just about all the quarters for laundry usage. But even after that, we had a […]

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One of the new and exciting things about moving to the city will be applying for the elusive residential parking sticker. Our new apartment sits in the J Spot. After going through all kinds of hoops like updating our DMV records and providing proof of residence (if we actually get a copy of our new […]

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