Like much of the country and all of California, we’ve been suffering through higher-than-normal temperatures the past week. In using quotes around the phrase, my intention is not to diminish the seriousness of this for so many–the triple-digit temperatures in the East Bay and elsewhere (it was 103 in San Jose, 107 in Napa, and […]
Washington State’s Supreme Court has held, in a 5-4 decision, that banning same-sex couples from marrying is constitutional. The plurality opinion, concurrences and dissents are found on the Washington Courts site. Despite the depressing final outcome that has left me feeling sick to my stomach, the dissents are a joy to read.
When I moved to the Bay Area last month, I knew that I’d have a real commute again (ok, so it’s just thirty minutes, but the past four years my commute was less than half that), but I assumed that Californians, stereotyped as laidback and easy-going, would be polite, unaggressive and defensive drivers. Boy, was […]
Even my boss has gotten into the act. This past week he’s been attending the Euroscience Open Forum in Munich. While there he’s been providing daily updates and photos via Livejournal and Flickr that we’ve been transferring to a template–Our Mann in Munich–on the UCSF main site. I think it’s added a nice personal and […]
Three weeks into July–and a month since all the work there was completed–and my condo in Arlington hasn’t yet been rented. The property management company contacted me today to tell me that they’ve shown it a few times, and everyone really raves about how much space there is and how nice it looks, but no […]
Yesterday Jeff and I traded the cold and fog of Daly City for the heat and sunshine of Napa Valley, taking along Jeff’s mom, his mom’s sister from Concord, and his mom’s brother and nephew from the Philippines for an afternoon of wine tasting and sightseeing. By the time we drove to Concord in the […]
This coming Sunday, Jeff and I are participating in the 10K San Francisco AIDS Walk in Golden Gate Park with some of my UCSF colleagues; we just did the one in DC less than a year ago, so I’m not aggressively hitting up anyone for donations. If you are inclined to donate via my participation […]
No, we weren’t eaten by rabid prairie dogs in Wyoming nor abducted by aliens as we drove through Nevada, but arrived safely in California on Father’s Day, Sunday, June 18. Since then we’ve been busy settling in, and we haven’t had Internet access at home until yesterday, when our DSL service finally started. Later I’ll […]
On the positive side, we have a confirmed moving company and pickup date for our household effects. I also have identified a property management company to handle the rental of the condo after we’re gone (though I still have a massive amount of work to do in terms of getting carpet and a dishwasher installed, […]
On Wednesday we had our first in-home estimate for the move. After walking through the condo, making ticks on his PocketPC while I noted which items were being moved and which weren’t, the representative from the moving company connected wirelessly to his small printer and printed out an estimate. Yikes! 5,100 pounds to move at […]