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Okay, so how about #756?

Bill-on-the-Hill — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 19:19:28 -0700

My own answer to this Barry Bonds trivia question isn't particularly exciting: when he hit his record breaker, I was in my beat-up little house in New Mexico, trying to get a busted wireless connection to work. (Bless my wife and son, they eventually succeeded where I failed.) All very routine, and in contrast to #755, I didn't even know about it in close to real time, courtesy of the bad connection. However, it's probably just as well, because as will become clear, I don't like Barry Bonds.

O'Hare

evan — Fri, 05 Jan 2007 21:27:21 -0800

We got back to Montreal yesterday morning just after midnight. Maj got us upgrades on United to business class, which was really a life-saver. There's a direct flight from San Francisco to Montreal, but it's 5 hours one way and 6 hours on another. This time traveling to California, we decided to split up the flight, stopping in Chicago about halfway between.

San Francisco

evan — Sat, 30 Dec 2006 21:08:00 -0800

My brother Nate and his girlfriend Kristen live in the Laurel Heights area of San Francisco, just north of Presidio Heights, across the street from Laurel Village on California Street. They invited us up for dinner at their house last night, and since my Mom and Dad hadn't seen their apartment yet, they decided to join us, too.

Half Moon Bay

evan — Fri, 29 Dec 2006 12:49:16 -0800

We had a great day on the coast yesterday, just the three of us -- Maj, me, and Amita June. We drove over Highway 92 from my parents' place in Los Altos Hills, a pretty steep and winding highway, down to Half Moon Bay on the peninsula's coastline.

Jagi's Birthday Party

evan — Sun, 29 Oct 2006 14:56:46 -0800

Friday night we went up to the City for my brother Nate's annual Halloween party. Nate lives on a precipitous incline in North Beach, the Italian-Beatnik section in the northeast of San Francisco with steep hills, great cafés and a significant dearth of parking.

We managed to get Amita June down to bed for the night, gave her grandparents far more instructions than were actually needed, and then sped off into the night. We were running late, but we stopped on the way to pick up Maj's brother Brian, who lives in Noe Valley. It was the first time we'd seen his new apartment and we probably took longer than necessary there, but we finally got off towards North Beach around 7:30PM.

Getting into SFO

evan — Sun, 29 Oct 2006 14:55:34 -0800

It's a beautiful day here in Los Altos Hills, California, where my parents live. It's been unseasonably warm this week, ever since we hit the ground on Thursday, and we've been enjoying the warm weather to the fullest. Amita June is storing up vitamin D (a precious commodity in the Canadian north) for use during the rest of the autumn and winter.