smoke...

the hazy smoke from all of the nearby widlfires is filling the sky with a weird reddish cast - reminding me of the terrible San Diego wildfires from a few years back...let's hope things improve.

Quite possibly the worst car ever.

We find ourselves using our friend Lauren's 1999 Subaru wagon for the weekend. Long story short, she and her husband and infant baby are going to Davis this weekend, and their A/C is busted. So we lent them the Volvo, and took this thing.

I'm all for friendship, and I would make the trade again in a minute, but this is one seriously bad car -- slow, ugly and surprisingly cramped for a wagon, this thing makes a good case for walking. It is so ugly I didn't even bother going outside to take a picture, I just shot this one through my office window.

Jen's working tonight, so I think I'll hop in the Subaru, put on a flannel shirt and some patchouli oil, and go flirt with girls wearing peasant skirts and Birkenstocks, perhaps somewhere out in West Marin. I'd be discovered as an impostor, though -- it would be like the episode of Seinfeld where George pretended he was a marine biologist. haha!

Cleanup on the Email Aisle

Because Yahoo mail is a wasteland of spam and advertising, I am cutting over my personal email to a gmail account, and I am even consolidating all of my social and business networking to another gmail account for that specific purpose. Yeah!

All of this cleanup and organization feels so good!

Here's an amusing video on social networking.