Bar peoples

I am sitting in a bar waiting for a friend to show. People are loud and in various stages of sobriety. My own state. Two drinks no waiting. Somewhere near tipsy and sober. People share inane details of their life with whoever will listen. Jukebox blaring. People yelling. All trying to drown the quiet desparation of their own lives. The show will end at two am whether people are ready or not

Holden

Holden loves to be brushed. Here is my big boy with his brushes

The fading light

As pretty as everything was- light became an issue and my phone cam could not adjust to it. So here are the rest of the pics. The church is the old st marys in chinatown and the sandwich was my lunch in north beach. Yes those are fries sticking out

Still walking

On this mobile version I don't know how to upload multiple pics but after the Ferry building I walked to pier 39. and hopefully the rest of the pics so far

SF by foot

Ok so I got off bart and walked to the Ferry building. Walked up the stairs and took this shot with my phone

SF by foot

Ok so I got off bart and walked to the Ferry building. Walked up the stairs and took this shot with my phone

Hike to SF

Its a beautiful day so I am going mobile. (Thanks to the Who). I am going to use bloggers mobile feature and detail my walk in the city here's the first post. Let's see what happens

Ron Awakes from his Coma

What a delay! Wow! Work has been insanely busy as we get ready to close this shop down and move it to India. Yes I am a victim of offshoring - well not really, I keep my job but my site closes. So a quick review of everything that has been happening-

Obama wins- Yeah! America gets it right. An intelligent, reasonable, articulate guy gets elected over the Senior Citizen and Moose Hunter. I saw this on line and thought the slogan was lame but the picture is kinda cool

So good luck Mr. Obama - you get the right to inherit all of the problems of this country and get blamed if you can't fix them in four years. What else - Jen, my sister, had an ultrasound and sent out the first picture of her baby:

So cute! Those ultrasounds have better resolution now. I remember looking at one of my co-worker's once and it looked like a Rosarch blot. "See that there - thats the arm" "That? Oh ok, I see it now". But now you can see clearly.

In my exercise battle, I have 2 miles conquered now this week I have to hit 2.5 miles. I jogged around Lake Merritt the other day. A very nice park in the otherwise kinda dreary city of Oakland.

I have been hitting YouTube a lot lately just clicking on random videos and watching things for the hell of it. There is a comedian on there who is funny. His name is Kevjumba. He is a high school kid who listed himself as a comedian and now has millions of page views. For fun, I recommend his video "I love my Dad" where he interviews his father. I laugh at it everytime.

I also found a really cool video of the Concord Blue Devils doing their warm-up routine called "Space Chords". I think it is amazing and really demonstrates a foundation of music called Chord Resolution. Your ear expects dissonance to resolve to consonace and when it happens there is a reaction. Listen to the chords near the end and when the chord resolves - people react. It is amazing:

There are some great DCI clips too. I was watching the Madison Scouts Alumni corp do a version of Malaguena that rocks. Search for Malaguena DCI and watch the 2006 Madison Scouts. It is awesome. Finally, here is a great video of Maynard Ferguson, my favorite trumpet player, performing "Give it One". It was done in 1977 which if you remember my other posts - a great year in music. In fact, in 1977 our high school jazz band went to Reno and we saw Maynard perform at the Pioneer Theatre - so this was the band we saw. Check out all of the facial hair.