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Back in the B.A.Y.

This weekend headed to Cali again, early to see friends and family and for a week in San Diego to start training for a new position based in NYC. This weekend I filled up on mom’s cooking, toured the bay to see all my friends that won’t commit to come to NYC for a visit, hit up a few SF hot spots for birthday celebrations and catch up with all the gossip and local word on the streets from friends and family (Hi Grandma!).

Thursday I left on the old blue faithful – JetBlue, of which I’ve become a devote customer and look to the big JB first for all my flights: DirectTV, drinks, snacks and hot young nurses… what more do you want in an airline. Taking the camera out this last weekend didn’t happen so deal with a few club shots from both Wish and Ruby – I couldn’t tell you who was spinning (well I heard Bad Boy Bill was at Ruby but it didn’t sound like the Bill I had heard in the past).

Mike G had his fill of action at Wish and boned out early, Morg and Gabby were sippin cocktails all night when I arrived tardy from taking the tour through Mountain View and a stop by TM’s condo. Stella was klankin but the night was called and I played lost tourist for Gab before heading 45 mins back to my side of the bay.

Friday morning, pops and I hit the links in Sunol. I remember a time when I could play this course for a dollar after school and if it weren’t for the nearly free time I wouldn’t be coming out to the greens as much. Shot a few pics of the live turkeys and the course, before heading out to the Livermore Valley Wine Country Championship at Wente vinyards tournament. Rain killed the fun but not before Jeff Quinney jumped to an early lead. Unfortunately he couldn’t hold on to it and Tripp Isenhour took away his fair share of the $600,000 purse.

Back to Saturday, which was a great afternoon and then off to SF again for Darin and Morgs celebration. Nothing was planned, major. Good to catch back up with Mike gggggg for a few and tip back beers before heading out NY style at 12 for the club. We jumped in but I found myself chatting up friends upstairs most of the night. I make the unfortunately mistake of walking back to Mike’s through the Tenderloin but good thing, all the crackheads thought I was some crazy cracka too (I wish I could have documented that stroll).

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The Marina, San Francisco

Some writers of Wikipedia’s free on line encyclopedia have a great scense of reality. Who know’s how long this will stay up so I linked the site of the Marina District details and the posted the original intro:

~~~~ Marina District ~~~~

The Marina District is an affluent, picturesque neighborhood of San Francisco, California. The area is bounded to the east by Van Ness Ave, on the west by Lyon Street and the Presidio, on the south by Filbert St. The neighborhood sits on the site of the 1915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition, staged after the 1906 San Francisco earthquake to celebrate the reemergence of the world class city. The grounds for this world’s fair were created from a former lagoon on landfill. Aside from the Palace of Fine Arts (“POFA”), all other buildings were demolished to make an upscale residential neighborhood.

Today the neighborhood remains as popular as ever with the post-college crowd and young east coast professionals. The neighborhood even has its own breed of female, the Marina Girl, as satirized in the Cameron Diaz film The Sweetest Thing. The stereotypical Marina Girl parties hard, often rocks casual yet high end fashions including Juicy Coutoure, Seven Jeans, and Ugg boots, while never being employed in any tangible profession. The marina girl maintains her high quality of life through a series of arrangements with older gentlemen in neighboring Pacific Heights. In recent years on weekends, they tend to gravitate around the area dubbed by Herb Caen as the “Bermuda Triangle”: a collection of bars and restaurants on the corner of on the corner of Fillmore and Greenwich streets. In recent time’s this area has become known as Gavin Newsom square with a collection of Gavin Newsom-owned businesses dominating the triangle. Mayor Newsom’s Matrix-Fillmore, Plumpjack wines, Balboa Cafe, and Plumpjack Cafe are all marina staples that dominate the landscape.

During the week, the Marina Girl can be found looking for companionship at the popular Marina Safeway. When a Marina Girl turns 30, she is no longer known as a Marina Girl, but as a “Cougar”. A few places in the Marina with a high saturation of Cougars are Balboa Cafe, Cozmo’s, the California Wine Merchant, and the Marina Safeway.

Cow Hollow, Russian Hill, Pacific Heights, and the Presido bound the Marina District to the north, south, east and west. ZIP Code: 94123 Population (2000): 22,903 Housing units: 14,851 Land area: 1.0 mile (2.6 km) Water area: zero

White population: 19814 Black population: 117 American Indian population: 34 Asian population: 2189 Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander population: 21 Some other race population: 240 Two or more races population: 488

Urban population: 22903 Rural population: 0

Median age: 35.3 Average household size: 1.61 Median household income (1999): $84710

Marina District, San Francisco, California – From Wikipedia

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Happy New Year 2006!!!

What a year… I just completed my first year in NY… braved a “mild” winter by NY local standards, landed a job at a huge international electronics corporation, squandered insane amount of cash “living” in my shoe box, feeding on Ethiopian to Danish to Chilean to Korean food and everywhere in between, never drank n drove – but certainly failed to make it home with out a bruise or scratch on the walk home, broke my arm in the Ice “snowboarding”, walked through a transit strike and witnessed our country further depleted its economic, educational, and natural resources…

We picked up a hotel at the Argent near Union Square in SF with a nearly top floor view of the Union Christmas tree display. I gathered with a group of good friends and we hit DNA after some heavy pre-holiday cocktails at the hotel… The count down was botched but the music of Lee Colmes, Dylan Rymes, and Bassbin Twins was insane.

Here’s some pics from the galleria:







Full Gallery of NYE Here