vacation wrap-up...
and a SHITLOAD of pictures!!!
6:14 p.m.

ok, i'm home.

what a great fucking week i've had!

so...yeah, wednesday, casey came over to the city on BART, like i said. he got to the hotel about an hour and a half after j-rob left, that was great. we got stoned and went down south of market, i was a little lost...if you know s.f., market st. cuts a diagonal line through downtown...on one side the streets go one angle, and on the other side they go another. i got my sense of direction a bit mixed up...the weed didn't help either i guess! it was actually cold and windy down there. we were looking for a place to eat..we found one, had sandwiches..they were ok.

then we came back to the triton and hung out for a couple hours. it was funny, cuz earlier in the day i found out j-rob was a huge cure fan, but he hadn't heard the new album was out...and guess what casey had in his backpack? it's good, a bit noisier that i was expecting from the reviews. had a nice long chat with casey, he's got a lot of stuff going on...he's got a construction job in the city for the summer...his mom might have some serious health issues...he's moving to oakland for a bit, and is gonna find a better co-op situation in berkely for the fall...i DO worry about the boy, but he's a smart kid, he'll be ok...he's always brought out my paternal...stuff.

thursday morning i got all ready to check out...had to get the car and move it to a garage around the corner, as the valet parking ended at noon...33 bucks a day was worth it, just pull up to the hotel, and a cute boy whisks it away all safe and sound.

so, parked the car, (23 bucks for like 3 1/2 hrs!) and went down to claude lane with k.maria's wedding present. hung outside cafe claude...mmm, something smelled REALY good! all of a sudden there she was, coming down the alley towards me! it's so funny to meet someone in person for the first time, someone you feel you know so well...she's SUCH a cutie-pie! she said i looked cute too...and that i looked like "a local"! we ordered and she opened her present...i got them a nice big bowl from
fire and light...it's a local company that makes glassware from chunks of recycled glass, it has this cool rippled texture...the bowl is kind of a greenish-blue...and in the bowl were two sauces from pacific rim noodles...creamy wasabi and....i forget! oh, and a jar of spicy mustard from the bless my soul cafe...local treats, ya see?

lunch was great, we sat outside. i had duck confit with braised lentils, k. maria had foccacia...and we had a yummy warm chocolate cake with ice cream and carmel sauce...it was so nice there, it really did feel like we were in paris...we'll ALWAYS have claude lane, k!

after lunch we went to her office...i had to grab a disposable camera, as my digital was finally full...picked up her dry cleaning, a great hot-pink coat! then we headed for the 14th. floor...OMG, the view from her office is awsome, you can see the bay...then we went up to the rooftop garden, that was so cool...i called rob in eureka but he was out, k maria said hi anyway. we chatted for a bit in the summer sun, and then, sadly, it was time to go.

walked around a little bit, but decided against going to sfmoma, it was getting late. went into the armani store and almost tried on a 500 dollar jacket...oh, who am i fooling, haha!

got out of the city around 3 pm...traffic was a bit slow heading north, and my god, santa rosa was really slow going. checked out some of my new cd's on the way home...got gas in ukiah. got to eureka, got cigs, BK, and the mail...was home before 9pm.

ok....now...PICTURES!

first afternoon, just chillin' in room 305...