December 2007

The Times Square Alliance is having something random called Good Riddance Day on Friday the 28th: 

In keeping with that spirit, the co-organizers of New Year’s Eve in Times Square (Times Square Alliance and Countdown Entertainment) are inviting the public to say goodbye, once and for all, to those bad memories of 2007. “GOOD RIDDANCE DAY” is a chance to, literally, throw out your bad memories.We’re inviting New Yorkers and visitors from around the world to join us in mashing a year’s worth of bad hairstyles, loathed music, fashion disasters and ill-fated romances into an unrecognizable pulp of bad karma and negative vibes – which will then be carted off, never to be seen again.

So is this an invitation for NYCers to bring old stuff with them to Times Square to have the TSA happily haul it away for free? A plot by the TSA to get free labor in helping to make confetti for New Year’s Eve on Monday? Hm…

You can always agree to that.

Ok, no, I don’t hate the NFL - in fact, I really love watching football - but the only feeling I can muster when I see a game distribution map like this is ARGHHHH.  Everyone in the country gets a 4:15pm EST football game on CBS  except for the Bay Area??  The vast majority will get to see the Steelers and Patriots play, the poor NY metro area gets the Jets-Browns but in San Francisco?  Nothing.  I can see it now: Pittsburghs pulls off a crazy upset tomorrow and beat New England… and I don’t get to see a minute of the game.   

Yes, it’s true, I could go to a sports bar that has DirecTV Sunday Ticket and watch the game, but that just means that I would be surrounded by the smug Boston/New-England frat boys that tend to congregate on Sunday afternoons… 

The Bay Area is terrible for watching football. 

 It’s all your fault, NFL. 

• the darned heat in the apt is always blasting. old-school radiator with no way to tell how to turn it off… ugh. #
• T/F? The health of Silicon Valley can be measured by the state of traffic on Highway 101 from San Francisco to San Jose. #

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This past Saturday, I was at the checkout of my local grocery store, paying for my things and my cashier remarked “kind of an ugly day outside huh?”  The sky was indeed overcast but not extremely so, it was just a cool, gray December day - I didn’t think it was ugly at all.  It seemed so normal to me, until I realized that this may not be the normal December weather for San Francisco.

Another gray day today again, this time cooler with rain - this feels about right for the first week in December.  Is it weird that I actually like this weather?  Maybe I need more time here in the Bay Area (or a dose of East coast winter bitterness) to appreciate a home that doesn’t get cold or snowy or dreary for any prolonged periods of time.