A visit to the best most dangerous block in San Francisco 2005

Hi, hi. I'm fine. No, really, just doing offline stuff.

This past weekend I installed new carpet, "Flor", in my kitchen and it's swell. And frog green.

I also took a walk to a highly dangerous spot: Divisidero between Haight & Oak. There temptation awaits. I managed to resist the suction power walking past the door of Comix Experience, but was pulled into The Other Shop. There among the moderne vintage items I discovered a simply wonderful Japanese print in a great frame for a steal of a price.

Then I headed on to my intended destination, Gamescape, and bought not only the additional game from Loony Labs (makers of Fluxx and Chrononauts) which I had come for, but also an expansion set for Carcassonne, a Cheapass game called "The Big Idea", and something called "Gloom" in which the goal is to make your family as miserable as possible while inflicting happiness upon your opponents families. Much fun to come at my house!

I could have left the danger zone then, but no, no, I went on to Cookin', the treasure house of every cooking implement known to man. There I obtained a hand-held juicer for lemons or limes for the making of really proper cocktails. See above.

My wallet significantly lighter, laden instead with lovely new things, I walked back home, stopping along the way for a sandwich and a juice - excellent and so inexpensive - at Courtney's Produce at 14th and Castro.

So, all is very well in my world. The kitchen improvement - take that, you ugly lino! - inspired me to clean the kitchen, and then the living room. I have some pretty nasturtiums from the backyard on the table and everything is lovely. Also I made pasta puttanesca for dinner and it was delicious.

Hope you're making your life nice in whatever way you can. Even the little stuff, step by step, counts. It's how I got here. Add something good, subtract something bad. Little by little, until one day everything in the room is what you want to have there. Home.

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A visit to the best most dangerous block in San Francisco

Hi, hi. I'm fine. No, really, just doing offline stuff.

This past weekend I installed new carpet, "Flor", in my kitchen and it's swell. And frog green.

I also took a walk to a highly dangerous spot: Divisidero between Haight & Oak. There temptation awaits. I managed to resist the suction power walking past the door of Comix Experience, but was pulled into The Other Shop. There among the moderne vintage items I discovered a simply wonderful Japanese print in a great frame for a steal of a price.

Then I headed on to my intended destination, Gamescape, and bought not only the additional game from Loony Labs (makers of Fluxx and Chrononauts) which I had come for, but also an expansion set for Carcassonne, a Cheapass game called "The Big Idea", and something called "Gloom" in which the goal is to make your family as miserable as possible while inflicting happiness upon your opponents families. Much fun to come at my house!

I could have left the danger zone then, but no, no, I went on to Cookin', the treasure house of every cooking implement known to man. There I obtained a hand-held juicer for lemons or limes for the making of really proper cocktails. See above.

My wallet significantly lighter, laden instead with lovely new things, I walked back home, stopping along the way for a sandwich and a juice - excellent and so inexpensive - at Courtney's Produce at 14th and Castro.

So, all is very well in my world. The kitchen improvement - take that, you ugly lino! - inspired me to clean the kitchen, and then the living room. I have some pretty nasturtiums from the backyard on the table and everything is lovely. Also I made pasta puttanesca for dinner and it was delicious.

Hope you're making your life nice in whatever way you can. Even the little stuff, step by step, counts. It's how I got here. Add something good, subtract something bad. Little by little, until one day everything in the room is what you want to have there. Home.

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