Trapped in the Office

Trapped in the Office
Originally uploaded by jrherron

Some days even a crappy mind numbing day at the office can lead to this view out our building's windows. Did mention how nice it is to live here?
Yeah.... I thought I did.

Yikes, a whole month!

My My.Yahoo page always shows me how long it's been since my last post, and I was a little alarmed this week to see that it had been a whole month since I'd stopped in to post. Trust me, you don't want to read about how I spent 12 hours in my cube being a spreadsheet jockey, that enriches neither your life or mine. So, what have I been up to lately? Well,I got myself nice and dressed up for Halloween, going as scrooge,trailed closely by 3 co-workers who were dressed as ghosts of products past, present and future. It was well received around the office, and landed my team and I the best group prize in our little competition. That got us all lunch at the San Francisco Soup Company, the place where most of my company's executives eat. Despite how busy we'd been at the office I still found time to get out and vote on November 4th, and for the most part I was pretty pleased with the results. In some movie I saw long ago, there was a fellow lightly complected brother who said that "one day light skinned brotha's would be back in style". (This was in those days where dark skinned bald headed guys with goatees were all the rage) It would appear at least for now, that the long promised day has arrived. I say I was pretty pleased because somehow a gay marriage ban made it through all the way on to the California state constitution. The fact is that a vote for yes means that you not only disagree with gay marriage, but that you think it's the state's responsibility to make sure that two people who love each other can't make a formal statement of that. I think those ought to be separate issues. I'm pretty sure we haven't heard the last one though. It's likely to be tied up in court forever, and even more likely to re-appear on a ballot at a later date. Oddly enough the gay Marriage ban passed, but parental notification for abortions did not. So it's quite possible that people got out and voted for one and not the other? Very strange indeed. I somehow managed to get older last week too, celebrating in style with friends at a restaurant I'm suddenly very passionate about: Betelnut in San Francisco. I'd heard good things about it, and it completely lived up to the hype. I don't know that I've ever had better fish than the Oven smoked seabass with ginger-cucumber namasu (order two, they're small, and you'll want more). We also had the Szeshuan style green beans that are even better than the famously delicious green beans that we had at the little restaurant across the street from the Lido Hilton Beijing. On Friday, we had a chance to check out a place on our side of the bay, Bellanico. Wine list: Great, Food: Awesome, Seating: a little tight, and kind of noisy, but really a cool neighborhood place. Desserts: Amazing. Over the weekend I watched another disappointing Saturday for my beloved Auburn Tigers.

Shrimp on a reef
Originally uploaded by jrherron

It's been a long season an has the potential to get much better or much worse with Alabama on the schedule in a week and a half. Today's awesome news, I might actually have a picture published in an online travel guide called Schmap. Needless to say I'm stoked. I'm "on the short list" so it's not final yet, but it's one of the few times someone who doesn't know me has actually thought my photography was worth while. It almost makes me a professional travel photographer (excluding the getting paid part...minor detail).