A Quick Update

I'm sitting in Union Square on a lunch break, enjoying the lovely weather and atmoshpere of San Francisco - more on that later this week.

In the meantime, a piece of advice: If you are planning on coming here, bring extra smokes. Every time I light up I am inundated with requests for a cigarette from the - as we say at this conference - lowest rung on the socio-economic ladder.

Scroo-Loo is out, as I write, collecting subjects for a photo essay later this week. I have to go back to work.

Conferences should never be held in places like this. They should be held in places like Omaha where the distractions are less...well...distracting.

I Love a Parade

Here's the first thing we will see when we arrive in San Francisco.

Lockjaw

For the record, I hope Sarah Palin never removes her teeth from David Letterman's neck.

What an awful thing to say, one of those things it is only okay to say about conservative women and their families. Once again, "feminists" have proven to be a bunch of frauds who could care less if women are exploited, insulted, and degraded, as long as those women aren't feminists.

If the pervert David Letterman said that about my daughter I would kick his ass. He is an un-funny, tiny-minded troll who has long outlasted his entertainment value.

Give it up David. You suck. You're an embarrassment.

Graduation: The Photo

As promised, a photo from the GD² graduation ceremony. That's GD² holding all of her educational booty, which was plentiful - highest honors and all that.

Speaking of booty, GD² is posing with the super-fine Scroo-Loo.

A grandchild, ridiculously smart kids, and gorgeous trophy wife. I'm the luckiest guy you know.

Probably Good Advice

It's been a busy couple of weeks, what with the graduation and subsequent party planning, two soccer teams going strong now, and assorted work related business. Fishing is essentially off the radar, not just because of other priorities, but also due to a broken starter cord on the vaunted Johnson (yes, it happened on the lake, but at least it was at the launch).

Pics to come soon from GD²'s graduation day - in this house we still do film for the important things, which must then be developed, time providing.

A footnote from the ceremony: the teacher-speaker, although giving the usual "go to college/be good to your kids/seize the day" speech, focused especially on encouraging graduates to learn to use their hands. I can only assume he meant that, in these tough economic times when the government is taking everybody's money, those "handyman" skills might be their only chance to work off the books.