The day so far...

[mdlbear]

Breakfast was an omelette with leftover pesto -- Colleen made wonderful fresh pesto last night for dinner.

Spent my time alone in the morning (I get up much earlier than the flower_cat) doing some much-needed but basically uninteresting maintenance on my email foldering system, and going through most of the unread mail in my "misc" folder. Added a "friends" folder.

After breakfast, the Cat and I went up to San Francisco for the Chihuly exhibit at the de Young Museum. Amazing. Indescribable. If there's one near you, go see it. Also some amazing paper art by Jane Hammond. Lunch in the museum cafe; tasty (we both had the lamb curry), but the rice was underdone--they're clearly running a bit beyond their capacity with the Chihuly crowds. No problems with the wheelchair, though I need to remember to ask whether she's ready to roll after she's been in one place for a while; sometimes she puts her feet down.

Nice drive back by way of the Great Highway, State Route 1 past Devil's Slide to Half Moon Bay, and 92 back to I280. Tempting to take 1 down all the way to Santa Cruz, but we really didn't have the time.

Walked around the Rose Garden. You know that pain in the ball of my foot that I mentioned yesterday and the day before? Had it again, even with my Keen hiking boots. Something bruised, I think. The running shoes seem to have the best padding; may have to use those plus an ankle brace for a while.

Spent the evening puttering, and attempting to diagnose Colleen's dual-boot desktop machine in the bedroom, and Kat's HP Ubuntu box. Oddly enough, both worked fine for me (though the HP doesn't seem to recognize the monitor size through a KVM switch even when X is restarted; it may have to boot with the monitor switched in). Loose connections, maybe. That, or I scared them into working.

Comments

[figmo.livejournal.com]

I am definitely tired. I misread "Chihuly" as "Cthulhu."

[gorgeousgary]

Considering his usual style, you're not really that far off! 8-)

[mdlbear]

Colleen has been known to pronounce the name somewhere in between. Horribly amusing. Emphasis on the "horribly".

[gorgeousgary]

When we were in Seattle last year, we visited the galleries that specialize in selling Chihuly's work. It's nice to know that if I ever have $7000 I feel like getting rid of that I can buy myself a low-end work.

[mdlbear]

The museum store had a few as low as $3500...

[kyrielle]

I got to see a Chihuly exhibit once, years ago, in Chicago. I would love to see another some day. The man's work is incredible.