April 30, 2007

  • Saturday, April 28

    I woke up early because I wanted to get a ride in before Jeff and I ran errands at 10am.  I went out to McLaren park which I won't go to again early in the morning for the following reasons:

    1) It's covered in mosquitos
    2) I felt like I was in the beginning of a "Law and Order" episode where the jogger discovers the corpse.

    But the view was beautiful:

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    I headed down through the Excelsior to and checked out the beautiful church of the Epiphany. The architecture is very spare but it comes off as modern rather than cheap.

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    Likewise, the beautiful mosaics over the door use tesserae that are just a little bit larger than you'd expect. It seemed very modern to me as well.

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    Then I headed into Daly City which contains some triumphs as well as some tragedies of mid century architecture. Here's some of the good:

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    From there I came around Lake Merced which was very quiet and pretty in the morning light:

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    Then I came up Ocean Beach and proceeded to bother this Samoyed who was wondering who the heck kept whistling at her:

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    Then up to the Palace of the Legion of honor and then through Seacliff, down Lake to Clay and then Buchanan to Japantown

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    Then Laguna Market and then home.  About 25 miles.  We went and dropped my commuter bike off at REI and then went to pick up food for Mimi at the SPCA.  We looked at puppies at the SPCA but I think we'll end up getting ours elsewhere.  I'm not interested in a dog over eight weeks old and I'd prefer to get it from a litter as opposed to a shelter.  Then we went to the grocery store and then home for lunch.  I went walking with Nathan later in the afternoon.  We went to Harding Park at lake Merced which was really fun.  Nathan, as the kids say, still knows how to "get down":

    I think it's nice that he can still move like that.  You know, at his age.  Here is prior to his unsuccessful attempt to confiscate my camera.

    Harding park has a lot of piers that you can walk out on, this one was rotting away but I managed to avoid incident:

    Muni was in semi meltdown mode and we had to wait a long time for the train.  There seemed to be a lot of people going to a party or the prom or something.  This being San Francisco, Nathan and I amused ourselves trying to figure out whether some of the revelers were drag queens or just tacky big boned girls. 

    Jeff made steak for dinner for Nathan and Nick and we all had Taco Salads.  Unfortunately for me, Jeff steered the dinner conversation towards the topic "Embarassing Facts about Joseph You Might Not Know".  Which totally pissed me off.  It's hard to focus on what a great husband he is when he's being such a horse's ass.