We had a great time at (the last?) IBR last week, and now we’re all booked to go to Seattle for Spring Thaw in early April, during which time we plan to take a side trip to Vancouver, BC, which will be my first trip to Canada EVER! We’ll be staying with close friends, and it should be a great experience.
Category Archives: Bears
IBR 2011
THE SEQUEL! – Cookie and Eggnog Party TWO
Hanging with friends in Phoenix
Ramblings
My Yorkie Monte got a stimulating two mile round trip walk to BART station this morning, that lucky dog. Bobby joined me and made the walk much more interesting. We’re thinking about dressing the dog up as an ewok for a dog costume contest in Alameda if not too rainy on Halloween.
I wish I was with my friend Rick at Sanity rally in DC; I had my moment on Colbert once, though. See the link on the contents here.
I’m excited about the permaculture yield from backyard that Bobby already orchestrated. We worked pretty hard on it (more him than me).
I gave mom a lesson in the content management system called WordPress, and she seems to have it down. She is going to help me with the Trupa.com genealogy site.
Spoke t my old high school friend Jan today. She married my other high school friend Mike and they live in Colorado. Bobby and I are going to visit there for the holidays, so I will see them in Fort Collins, north of Denver. She told me to be prepared for some really cold weather, but probably not as cold as New York.
I’m very surprised Christina Aguilera is already divorcing, and more surprised that I care. Love her pipes. Supposedly she was going out with the lesbian DJ that Lindsay Lohan was seeing before rehab (again).
Auguri to Celine Dion on her twin boys. My favorites divas never have girls! Very cool gesture that Celine named one of her sons after Nelson Mandela, who she met.
Had a great polyglot dinner and art discussion at Tropisueno with friends on Yerba Buena Lane last night before we went to the Badass Bear-aoke at Deco Lounge.
Oprah touring Yosemite is inspiring me to make concrete plans. We’re seeing Grand Canyon in 7 days!
Bad-ass Bears Karaoke (Bear-aoke?)
Folsom 2010
Anyone using Scruff/Grindr?
I’m finding them interesting. I’ve been using my friend’s old Iphone 3G as an Itouch and remember some of the cool things about the iphone that I used to enjoy when I was provided one for free at work. My Droid has a couple of programs which try to do the same kind of GPS-gay-locating thing like Encountr and Purpll, but neither of them really have any critical mass, even in this gay Mecca of the Bay Area.
Adventure Weekend in Big Bear Lake, CA
After surviving some headaches the first day and some more altitude sickness, or bad food which caused my last night to be pretty bed and sink-focused, I must say that all in all I had a wonderful time at the pool with old and new friends in a new environment in a part of California I’ve never been to before, even though it reminded me in several ways of Lake Tahoe.
I’m also glad my car made it, despite some brake “burning” on the way down the mountain and a noise which my brother now believes was the wheel bearing. My friend Ed and I traveled about 900 miles round trip taking the scenic route up and down California in my Buick.
Here are the pictures from my camera and from others who attended: