Early Mornings

So with summer break fully in swing, my routine is set. When Scott gets up at 6AM, I get up too and have breakfast with him. Then I retreat to my room, fire up the laptop and enjoy two to three hours of pure quiet time bliss and read my email the Seattle Times, San Francisco Chronicle, New York Times, Washington Post and Salon.com.

Anyway, for those of you familiar with Seattle area "celebrities", this article about what's on people's TIVO had me laughing out loud. Whoever this Pamela Sitt is, she's funny.

Pictorial Guide to Replacing Glass in a Window

My bathroom window shattered when I left it open during a windstorm, oops.

The windowframe after the glass has been removed.

Remove old glazier points which held the old glass in place.

Apply window glazing (feels like silly putty)

Use putty knife to push glazier points into the frame itself to keep the glass in place.

The finished product.

The friends keep coming

This father's day weekend I had two friends (from the same circle) visit San Francisco independently of each other. To introduce them takes a bit of background. During these years, I was living in Baltimore and spent most of my free moments down in DC. It starts when my high school friend Kristin S. graduated from Wellesley, she went to work for the EPA in DC and lived with a couple friends. Those friends left after a year and she ended up living in a house with my Cornell friend Peter S. and two other guys. Kristin was the first to move out, but over the course of a couple years, this four person house on Wisconsin Avenue housed a number of people, one of them, Simeon, became a friend as well. It is Simeon and Peter (along with his girlfriend) who were in town this weekend. We, Scott included, met at my favorite Dim Sum restaurant. Afterwards, we trekked up to the top of Bernal Hill to take in the sunny day and views.

Peter, Allison and Simeon with San Francisco in the background

Scott and Ernie (but what's up with the sunglasses, Chen?)

After that, I took the crew to the Esmeralda Street slide. The tandem slide is located a couple blocks from my house, and is placed along a set of stairs that climb from the bottom of Bernal Hill to the top along the western slope. It's one of the charming things that make me continue to love living in this neighboorhood.

Scott on the Esmeralda Street slide

Peter and Allison

Peter and Simeon

A mere hour later, Peter and Allison took off for an Alcatraz tour and tomorrow Simeon flies to Portland to see family. It was a short reunion, but I know I'm grateful for the few hours we all had together again. It felt like 1993 in Washington, DC.