I was a mii before you was a mii


I keep on having ideas in mind for what I should blog about next, but lo and behold, by the time I get to work, and my boss goes "Hey Leon..can I talk to you for a second...so I got this email......so they want....and so I was wondering if you could...by this date...and then....our people will talk to their people...with the latest firmware upgrade....code named....this message will self destruct..." my mind goes blank and goes into binary mode and I just think to myself "01001001001000000111011101101111011011100110010001100101011100100010000001110111
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Bogart the Joint


Baby Grand, it our grand scheme of playing just about every weekend in Sacramento and not letting anyone else get the spotlight, and never saying "no" to a show offer, has decided to yet again, play another awesome show this weekend:


The Finches


The Bushes


Baby Grand

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The Press Club

Sunday afternoon at 4pm!!!

Awwww



So I'm not sleeping, just trying my best to hide my double chin in this photo.

My dad came to town this weekend. Niki and I were trying to decide on what do to the whole time while he was here.

After picking him up from the airport we got lunch at Bernardo's. For a while I was through with that place, but lately it's become one of my favorites.

Then we took Ira to get his first haircut which worked wonders for him later than night when we had dinner at Maaloufs. He was mesmerized by the belly dancer that came out mid-meal, and she seemed to be into him too. He kept turning his head to follow her around, and she was having a hard time not laughing while dancing. I felt bad, cuz we didn't have any cash to put into her bra. The food was amazing.

Next day we went wine tasting at Bogle. I was kind of hoping there would be more going on there....like food or something. The wine was pretty good, but not mind-blowing or anything, but what do I know? My dad only liked the sweet wines. I picked up a bottle of the zin and petite syrah reserves.

Next day we got lunch and headed to the river. I think it would be fun to go there more often, maybe during the week when it's not so crowded. You can hike just a little bit down from the main beach and have a little cove all to yourself.

I always leave my heart in San Francisco



SF is my favorite city. I've been to cities all over the planet, and nothing comes close to it.

Anyhow, I ate too much food (a list of all the stand out places I went to over the weekend), got to see friends, and finally checked out the SF MOMA (I felt like I was meeting a celebrity when I was looking at some of the famous paintings).

We took Ira on BART one evening on our way to the Mission. It was more of a trial run than anything else. We plan on going to NYC in a few months...so we needed to see what it was like to bring the baby on public transit. Besides all the broken elevators and a bit of confusion with the ticket system, it was fine, and plus NYC doesn't have elevators in the subway stations as far as I can remember.

I moved



Not that posting a blog on the world wide internet gives you any privacy, but I don't really care to advertise the URL. It's not like I have any secret juicy gossip that I post, I just like to keep things low key.

Anyhow, if you are one of the lucky few who found me, congratulations!

Here are some pics from my hike to the Lock Leven Lakes over the weekend.

Later!

Gettin tan on the 4th





Hope everybody had a good 4th o' July!