Friday Randomness

Another Friday, another bunch of randomness. Since I’m blogging every day for NaBloPoMo, we’ll see if I can manage to come up with much. I’m hoping for 5 things. Shouldn’t I be saving these for 5 different posts, since blog content can be rough during NaBloPoMo? Perhaps, but I’m throwing caution to the wind. That’s a future me problem. If she has a beef, she can come back and talk to today me.

I took this picture a couple of days after the time change, because I am fascinated by this clock at our nearby BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit) station. I mean, no big deal, the time changed and they haven’t set it back yet, right? But I could SWEAR to you that during the DST months, it was ALSO wrong. I think someone is setting it forward in the Fall and back in the Spring. But I can’t find any proof in my camera roll or online, so we’re going to have to revisit this in the Spring. I’m kicking myself for not taking a photo the week prior to the time change. Or the month. Something. But I didn’t. STAY TUNED.

When Meike took this selfie with her phone camera last weekend, she held up her palm in front of the camera for a second, and the phone gave her a countdown timer and then took the picture. GENIUS. San and I were flabbergasted and immediately considered turning in our iPhones and getting an Android.

The impetus of the get together was me talking about the local Flannel and Foliage Festival that happened a few weeks ago, which was basically a fan convention where if you spent hundreds of dollars, you could attend a Q & A with Kelly Bishop or have coffee with Scott Patterson. People willing to spend the cash raved, reviews from the people who got in for free were scathing (as in, NOTHING TO SEE WITHOUT SPENDING BANK) When I found out how expensive it was, San and I nixed the idea. But we still wanted to get together. A few days later I saw this story on the front page of the San Francisco Chronicle. THE FRONT PAGE. Journalism is not what it once was, is what I’m saying. It’s about Elmwood, a neighborhood just down the street from Rockridge, and aside from having good restaurants and cute shops, I have no idea what they mean by it resembling Gilmore Girls. All of this is a long way of telling you that I noticed the other day that Gilmore Girls, A Year in the Life is leaving Netflix soon. So, if you have been planning, you’d better plan to binge before November 24th. I’m thinking of you Steph, but given how long it took you to get through GG, and how you watch as a family, I’m guessing this may not happen. Just wanted to give you a heads up. I’m sure you can pay to stream it elsewhere.

You know, I could have included the books I had read in my Lazy Ass Blog Post, but I didn’t because that would not have been lazy enough. Yesterday’s oversight is today’s blog fodder, right? Here we go, links are to my reviews if you’re interested:

• Atmosphere (not yet reviewed, more blog fodder!)
• Dream Count – Loved it
• James – Loved it, saw the author talk about the book and his process.
• The Girls Who Grew Big – Loved it, read it for our county read along (also James the year before.)
• Woodworking – Loved it
• The Road to Tender Hearts (other side of the table) – I resisted this one because of the cover, but I’m glad I finally read it because I LOVED it.
• The Bright Years (other side of the table) – Loved it

In addition, I just started listening to Buckeye, and I purchased a hard copy of May We Feed the King based on Nance’s post, which will be my next physical read if I ever finish The Odyssey. Also, based on Maya’s comment on my original post, I just tagged A Guardian and a Thief as TBR on Libby. I loved every one of these books, so maybe I should check out more of the ones I haven’t yet read, huh? They seem to have gotten my vibe.

After a month with no cats to look after (the kittens that were there before I left were moved to the vet with eye issues while I was on vacation), now there are 2 cats at the rescue. This is Tango, he’s almost a year old. His people were foster parents, and the child they are fostering is horribly allergic, so they surrendered him. He’s a sweet, darling, curious boy. Kind of one of those cats that more like a dog, comes to say hello, wants to look around, etc. There’s another cat too, from the same home, but he was so low key and didn’t even budge from his little bed, I forgot to take his picture. Something for you to look forward to next week.

Bonus randomness – I saw this ad on Facebook the other day.

Bad AI, I would say. Check out #7. I haven’t been doing yoga much since the gluteal tendinopothy, but I suspect even Nicole couldn’t manage this pose.

Finally, bah, the stupid cold that kept us from our Diwali celebration on Sunday has lingered. Ted took some time off earlier in the week, and I was feeling OK, but then yesterday I woke up feeling worse. I took the day off of work and spent it on the sofa. I finished my rewatch of Gilmore Girls and then binged the 4 Year in the Life episodes. Thinking this may be a low key, recuperate kind of weekend.