Finishing glorious dinner on Allison's glorious roof terrace overlooking Santa Barbara plus whole world and entire Milky Way.

Walking down State Street in Santa Barbara on a Saturday afternoon. Need I say more?

Dined at Cava in Montecito - family family family. Now home with sister Allison in one of the few houses to survive the terrible Tea Fire.

Waiting for BART to SFO to pick up rentacar from Fox. SUV for 4 days @ $100 total - v cheap!

Finished my workout. Now packing for trip to Santa Barbara.

Missed SF Supervisor David Chu speaking to Barbary Coast Neighborhood Assoc. Getting ready for trip to Santa Barbara.

Going for Champagne at the Doyle's followed by dinner at Kokkari. Yay birthdays!

Thinking that half the people I know have been in touch with me today. As a result I've not been able to do any work. Forgive me...

Petter and Ana have just left. Juliette is about to arrive. Interesting evening. Plus long talk with Abe this pm. Life is complex.

Enjoying another beautiful day on the Embarcadero here in SF. The beautiful days are the consequence of the drought. So it goes.

Back from lunch at Buckeye in Mill Valley with Philip and Alex. Alex is moving from strength to strength with http://websightdesign.com.

Uploading thousands of old photos from the 90s to Flickr.

Enjoying a busy evening feeding the computers. Watching videos of International Space Station. http://tinyurl.com/djnh3d

Listening to sound of bagpipes and drums coming from Walton Park down below. Who knows why they are playing?Anyway, it's nice...

Daughter Cynthia came up from UCSC with 3 friends. Took them for very tasty lunch at house of Nanking. The owner dude is just so cool.

A long productive day - if you count the number of emails I sen as being truly productive. Inbox down to 40.

Going off to see Petter's office. http://norroc.com

Thinking that yesterday was the end of an error

Cheering. The helicopter is taking Bush away.

In San Francisco, Bush St has been renamed Obama St - http://tinyurl.com/86kxqs

yikes! a bit of a rough start on the oath.

Watching the inauguration on the CNN/facebook feed

watching the inauguration on nytimes, twitter, facebook, kqed and more

Yikes! First update today and it's 8 pm. Going to Safeway.

Driving home from Brad's housewarming. Very gay Modesto. Quite delightful. Now passing through soft landscape with a softv evening light.

Driving to Modesto. To Brad's housewarming. With Norman and Liz, Muriel and Al.

Picking up diana then dining with Cynthia and Greg.

Going downstairs to teach George Connel how to use his blog. Chezgeorges.blogspot.com

Going to see the premiere of palo alto - the movies in san jose - with friend Petter.

Paying taxes. Ugh! A bailout would be nice.

Drove Cousin Heidi to SFO for flight to NYC. Great visit. Sens, Ferry Plaza, winebarsf, SFMOMA, Catharine Clarke Gallery,Varnish, Globe etc

I've spent the last several hours on Twitter and FriendFeed. Added to my Following. Trying to figure things out. Wow, the power of it all...

Track embarcadero

Tracks

http://twitpic.com/128qa @94105now. Still live reporting at Ferry Park.

Liveblogging the dedication of a plaque to Ernestine Weiss on the Embarcadero.

Liveblogging Embarcadero: plaque is at corner of Clay and Drumm.

Got a lot opf work done today - but so much more to do. When will it ever end?

Second day of exercises after return from Paris. Much stiffer today. Owie.

Thinking about going to bed even though it's not even 10:30. Still jet-lagged.

I am proud of myself. I just finish washing the windows to my balcony. I can see clearly now.

Back from lunch -a beet salad that was delicious. The sky is almost perfectly clear. I can see mountains in Sonoma perhaps 30 miles away.

I'm going out to lunch with Bill and Merle to Max's on Van Ness Avenue

I just finished the pushups and situps and I did just fine. Even though I've been away for over 2 weeks, I have not lost too much strength.

Even though I have not exercised for 2 weeks, I seem to be doing ok. let's see how we do on the pushups.

I am doing my home workout/exercises for the first time since December 23rd. Yay!

Eating zucchini, spinach, tomato sauce on penne pasta - prepared by Safeway. Low of calories, fat and salt, but still has good bulk.

Rushing off to Safeway before it closes

Just started following John Cleese and John Hodgman on Twitter.

I'm on my way California Academy of Sciences for lunch - riding the CultureBus.

Cooking a light supper and probably going to bed quite early because of jet lag

Being selfish in San Francisco.

paris in the snow: http://www.cellspin.net/user/b74e8ee7b3/post/39093/

first post using cellspin

Took a wrong turn on way home from Santa Cruz via Skyline Drive but got home anyway. Next time I hope the drive is in daylight.

Father and daughter errands and laundry day. WhoHoo!

Arrived in Santa Cruz after breakfast at Grumpies

Back in my happy apartment. Will go to sleep for few hours then drive back to airport to pick up Cynthia also coming back from Paris.

Arrivedf at SFO. seending from BART

Arrived at SFO. sending from BART

Still in Paris. plane a couple of hours late. due to snow yesterday.

We're off to CDG airport in a few minutes. Bye bye Paris.

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It's snowing in Paris again.

Back from a Moroccan couscous dinner with Guillaume, Delphine and us. They fly to Cuba in the morning.

Richard Ohman dropped by on way home from happy vacation in Mexico with whole family.

Getting late and slowly.

Eight for lunch. Dominique & Lorea and Annie and Geoff plus us.

Finishing friendly family feast. Foie gras starter, paupiettes de vollaile and broccolli. nice conversation.

Eating lunch at my favorite Turkish restaurant in Paris (within walking distance of the apartment)

Waking up to a Paris covered in snow. Daughter Cynthia preparing for 2 day London trip. Others gently rising.