Go Ask Alice

Gainesville

Thanks for two great travel blogs-- definitely worth waiting up for. (It's just about midnight here.) It's almost like being there myself, since I was there so recently and know the area so well.

A PT Cruiser! Very cool indeed-- I can just see the two of you tooling around in that. What fun! And how nice that you are still finding new paths around Alameda, Sandy. I agree it is a strangely peaceful place amid the frantic beauty of the Bay Area.

Will be interested to hear how the visit to Chez Panisse goes tomorrow. Many nice memories of that place, and I was lucky enough to be there in 1973, visiting Connie Penley, who was working there as a waitress, I think-- in any case, she was a close friend of Alice, who was just getting started, and it was all very low key. That was over 30 years ago.

It's still horrendously cold here-- a longer cold snap than we usually have mid-winter, let alone True Spring.

The Readathon has started, and I attended a few of them today. Meanwhile, doing a few final read-throughs of Coraline, Chapter 3, in prep for Wednesday. Meanwhile too, my Show-and-Tell thing is Friday, and I realized today I couldn't do another complete read-through of that whole thing. Will just have to do the pieces here and there and hope for the best. There is such a thing as being over-prepared.

Dinnerwise, Plan A quickly devolved into Plan B and then sank into Plan C. Well, at least we ate at a reasonable hour, and it wasn't half bad. The sheets got changed in stages throughout the day, and the towels are in the washer now. Good the have the FL routines to cling to when things get crazy.

Kitchen is not pristine, but decent, and sink is empty, if not shining.

There's aftermath from Friday's Thud, but the chips are still falling, and no one is exactly sure where they will land.

Keep it up, Pilgrims. The daily dispatches from the East Bay are priceless. Looking forward to Wednesday on the town in SF, too.

Diry Tomorrow.