Monday, January 05, 2004
Congratulations to The Dresden Dolls, who made one Rolling Stones reviewer's best 10 albums of the year list. I don't think a lot of Rolling Stone, but this is dead-on, and hopefully it will mean good things for the band. And if you still don't have The Dresden Dolls, you really need to remedy the situation.
Yesterday almost made up for Saturday. Spooky and I didn't make the mountains, but we walked about 2.5 miles, around and across Piedmont Park, which includes some fairly decent hills. It was a cloudy day, but warm, and the breeze had only a hint of cold to it. The dogwood trees are budding. Of course, the lows for tomorrow night are forecast in the low twenties. That's winter in the South. Spooky hates it and says we don't really have winter, just a sloppy sort of autumn that eventually turns into spring. That's fine by me, as I loathe winter and always have. We watched dogs and trees and people and the sky, and eventually wound up at San Francisco Coffee. It had been recommended by a friend who doesn't like coffee, so I thought we'd give it a try. Delicious. I had the Foglifter (two shots of espresso, a shot of coffee, caramel syrup, and steamed milk - a very smooth caffeine blast). Afterwards, we checked out Belly, a funky "general store" on Highland, then walked a while (probably giving me a daily total of at least 3 miles) before an early dinner at Thai Bowl (I had a noodle bowl with asparagus, Nappa cabbage, shitake mushrooms, udon noodles, and pork loin in a beef and mushroom broth. Very nice. Then we headed home.
We would have gone to the botanical gardens today, but they're closed on Monday.
Last night, Spooky and I played War of the Monsters on PS2 and I spent a couple of hours working on Nebari.Net. Check out the updates, which include the first chapter of The Girl Who Sold the World (my first foray into "fan fic," unless you count most of the stories in From Weird and Distant Shores and all my Lovecraftian fiction and my work on The Dreaming; the only real difference is that I was paid to do those things, and that difference isn't very real at all) and our first Nebari.Net pinup. Bleary from html, I watched The Crow for the first time in about a year and then went to bed about 3 a.m.
Which is to say, the vacation continues. 111 hours and ten minutes and counting.
It amazes me that there's this whole world out there, which has days and nights, and I've spent so much of my life unaware of it's comings and goings, sitting in curtained rooms, telling my stories to myself.
The best part of yesterday was news that Spirit is alive and well on Mars, operating from its landing site inside the Gusev Crater, which lies at the mouth of the Ma'adim Vallis, and the lander has begun transmitting photos, some of which you can see in the CNN.com article.
Anyway, now I need to go do an interview, which I will pretend is not work.
After much deliberation, I think I have decided that I will be supporting Howard Dean in the 2004 Presidential election. I think he's our best chance to oust the banana republic of Dubya and this election, I believe, is going to be about best chances being taken.
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