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Same mistake as always
I had far too much coffee this morning, so I was a bleary eyed, over stimulated wreck by midday. Somehow I survived this and trundled down to REI, where they’re selling the same ice cream balls we bought at MEC earlier this summer. They also sold a wonderful sweatproof bag at REI, so I can […]
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Goodbye to the Best Western, and shit
Tonight I checked out of the Best Western and went to stay with friends in San Francisco. The Best Western is not an awful hotel; the mirrors in the bathroom are huge and everything is clean, but there is an enormous and off putting sign by the swimming pool, prohibiting anyone with diarrheoa or who […]
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Shortly, broken
I went to the gym today before work, which may have been an ill advised course of action, because I felt dreadful. I set the treadmill for 25 minutes, felt like death after five, and hung on for 15. Then I went and dangled from a pull up bar for 30 seconds. It’s a good […]
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Inconsistency in California and urinals
Last night we went out for dinner at a restaurant principally serving hummus, and then a long walk in search of entertainment, which culminated in a faux-English pub called the Rose and Crown, populated by people so young it felt like they were allowing unborn fetuses to drink. Palo Alto is not a party town […]
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Coffee in California
After all my hotel silliness last night, I woke up at 5:30 this morning, a rank injustice after taking so long to get a bed. I could have at least got more than five hours" sleep, watched over by the Beatles.
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Late checkin to the Beatles Room
After spending the day with friends in San Francisco and a pleasant meal at a French restaurant, I got dropped off at the hotel in Menlo Park where I had my booking for the next week. My friends drove off, back on the road to San Francisco and I went to check in. Unfortunately, I […]
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I, too, was there – Chaos Monkeys
In what may have been an act of self-destructive stupidity, I read Chaos Monkeys on the plane on the way to San Francisco, ahead of my first visit to Facebook HQ. If ever there was something to smash the bright eyed idealism that accompanies the start of a new job and replace it with world […]
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Fellow travelers and other problems
This morning I woke up early and rode down to East Coast Park for the weekly run, where I went slowly, struggling with tired legs and the consequence of eating an entire pizza the night before. It’s lucky I don’t have parenting responsibilities at present, because it took me until eleven to get home again, […]
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Retrieval mission
Tonight I went back to One North, a technology-themed Golgotha in the west of Singapore, full of buildings called Galaxis and Connexis and probably Streppocoxis, where Insead’s Asian wing skulks, as does Canon’s service centre. They’d fixed my broken lens for $200, less than a third the price of a replacement, and I happily took […]
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An aftermath
Eventually last night I located my friends, by which point they’d reached that time in the evening where you’re pounding shots of whiskey and shouting along to Drake songs for an hour. Hopelessly far behind in the inebriation stakes, I watched befuddled and wondered what I was doing awake when I could have been at […]