Posts Tagged ‘miata’
Coffee Cups 617, 618, and 619
Posted by Lloyd Y. Asato | Filed under Poetics of Peet's
Okay, the ads are back. I am experimenting with designs for a project I am working on with another Gnomedex 5.0 alum and this is how I learn. Besides these are good products that I believe in and use everyday.
About this new project, well, it is secret. All will be revealed soon. In the meantime, go buy some ThinkGeek T-Shirts, SkypeOut minutes, or something. We launched the demo site last night and eliminated a couple of project names. We will not be known as Puce Puppy. More as we finish it. 617.
Okay, I suck at keeping secrets. It has something to do with candid human conversation and puce is a dark red kinda purple-brown colour. You know, the colour of a bruise. 618.
The Miata has arrived but will not be available for pick up until Thurday. So the plan is to fly to San Diego on Thursday get the car and drive back to Phoenix in time for Presh to use the car to get to work on Friday. Then take the rental from Phoenix back to Vegas so I can take a flight back to the big city Friday night. 619.
This is just about the coolest ever. I never have to leave the house again. Safeway delivers! I can get my half and half, chicken breasts, and ice cubes delivered right to the door. Coffee is already being delivered. What else is needed? Hmm….
More coffee! You can never have enough coffee. Sure, there are stores on every corner. But why go out? Remember what Chef said. “Never get out of the boat.” It is good advice. Never get out of the boat because there are tigers (even in the desert) and they will chomp you. Order online instead.
Sleeping with the fishes.
Posted by Lloyd Y. Asato | Filed under Poetics of Peet's
This was one of those days.
I have to spend a grand to replace the clutch on the Miata. My content is being ripped off by one of those aggregator sites. And I sat through a three hour teleconference on provisions in the new transportation act.
Well, actually that last one was fun. It was nice to hear DCese again.
Oh, yeah, and still no glasses from LensCrafters.
Interlude 79 – The Farewell Tour, San Francisco, Day One
Posted by Lloyd Y. Asato | Filed under Coffee Interludes
I will explain why this is called the Farewell Tour later, for now know that we left 18 years ago for Los Angeles and at the time it seemed like a pretty good idea.
Yes, I travel with my burr grinder and vacuum pot. I also have half and half. What I did not have was enough power. The good inverter from Deacon was stolen when the Miata was molested. The replacement did not put out enough wattage, I guess. The burr grinder worked but the vacuum pot would not.
I can only go so far on fumes. Having failed to brew I settle for a can of go.
After checking into the room and setting up a shared network, we head out to Number 9 Fisherman’s Grotto for some crab cakes, chowder, and sauteed shrimps.
The Bay is beautiful and poignant. I miss the ocean.
Presh loves sourdough. Meh.
This made her giggle.
We later head to our old apartment in San Anselmo. There is, no kidding, a vacancy sign in front. It was as if it was saying, we missed you. Come back. We saved you a place.
I loved living here.
But that was before that October 18 years ago.
Fourth Street changed so much. The barber shop is gone, George’s is empty, and Hong’s place is now some bistro. The neighborhood has gentrified and lost its soul. That place where I got my first command is now a motorcycle dealership, but the deli is still there. I wonder if their footlongs are as amazing as I remember them to be?
That was Day One of the Farewell Tour 2007.