The almost-final beautiful scene
Last night I parked the car on The Embarcadero in San Francisco, crossed the street, and then entered the very pretty park between Embarcadero and Battery. I was semi- jogging, as I was a few minutes late for dinner with my cousins, but the scene struck me so I stopped, …
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Venezuelan eating style experiment
A Venezuelan friend was staying over and when it came dinner time I took out all that was in the fridge for him to chose what to eat. There were five different types of vegetarian salads, a chicken salad, and a chicken breast and rice package. He chose the chicken …
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I can’t multiply!
I was finishing up my run today, listening to the book Thinking, Fast and Slow and the author asked the listener to multiply 17×24. I immediately “knew” that the answer was close to 4,000 (which is totally wrong), but the pretty incredible part is that after the author asked the …
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Car closet
Today I came home from a meeting and when I went to hang my sport coat in the bedroom closet, I realized I had left its hanger in the car. So I went back to the car, as always thinking of something else, and next thing I knew, I found …
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Disappearing sponge
As I was doing the dishes today, I thought of something I needed to do, so I wrote myself a reminder. I came back to the sink and the sponge had disappeared. I checked in the dishwasher, the trash compactor, the counter… nothing. Then I saw the sponge – it …
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Barely got strawberries
I left the house to get groceries. I got to the farmers market, negotiated the price for the box of strawberries, and when I went to pay, I realized I had left my wallet at home… got home and back within 10 minutes before the farmers market was closed (all …
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Clean headphones
Allison just informed me that my head phones are very clean, as they just came out of the washing machine.
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Prime suspect
I walked into the bedroom and Monkey was beheaded. The prime suspect was sunbathing looking very innocent.
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After-dinner run in the rain
Last night Allison and I went out for a great dinner at Seasons 52 (highly recommended!). The restaurant was at a 10 minute walk from the hotel. While we were there, it started pouring. It was supposed to storm all night, so we decided to just run back to …
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