Kokochi

Ultraman

Giving props while I sit in traffic. He's been hanging out in our car for quite some time now.

Dog Day

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At Fort Funston. What a dog paradise! And flying human birds at which the dogs howled. Hanging with Ginevra and Maile's dogs...good romping around and lots of tail wagging!

Lazy Investment

JY laments his recent investment. I remembered I still had old French francs and wondered how much I had and whether I could still exchange them for Euros. Doesn't matter...I only have a few coins so I'll keep my francs as historical artifacts to show my great grandchildren when their generation uses only credit scanned into their fingerprints and they never learn the concept of coins.

But getting those few francs took a long time since I've dumped all my travel money into one sack out of laziness. So this morning, I divided it up into their respective currencies.

Now I know I can make a phone call or two upon arriving in Australia, Canada, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Korea, Kyrgyzstan, Mexico, Spain, and Tajikistan. I have one curious coin from Portugal and I've never been there (I think it was given to me by a Portuguese friend). I also found quite a lot of Taito, "For Amusement Expert." I have no recollection of these. I'd like to find where those can be used!

My favorite is Tajik's somoni. Cute paper size that I much prefer to the gigantic ridiculous Czech koruna.

an expression

I miss you because

I need not change the toothbrush

on our Braun machine.

The finale that must be added...

I mean, check out those wings!!

Some quotes:

A life without cause is without effect.

Never give me an invisible key.

Would you hand me my boots?

Parkway

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Oakland is cool. And this theater event is full of spinning wheels, gorillas, sexy shows, guns, and stuff I can't even figure out. I highly recommend that you endure the videos cuz...well...And this is even before the Barbarella movie started! I had no idea about this movie and my gosh, Jane Fonda...I may post more later cuz I gotta watch this since it's started now. But at least now I know where Duran Duran comes from...And I would prefer that Dav not have wings but I'd protect him too. Dav is just perfect as is.

My bus stop

Not that I just noticed only today, but with the gorgeous weather that puts an extra bounce in my walk, I wanted to share what I see when I wait for my bus to go to work. It's not bad, eh?

And then, when I get to work, I get to see this blossoming plum tree which of course reminds me of cherry blossoms!

[I'm soooo curious what Dav is seeing now. Haven't received any pics yet, and wish I could have a little personal video camera linked to his eyeballs so I could vicariously view Rio.]

[UPDATE: Just heard from Dav. No pics yet, but here's quote. "I thought I was

prepared for the beauty of the Rio landscape, but it really is just

stunning."]

Oh Brazil, here comes Dav!

I will miss him so much. But when we are back together, it will be fantastically special. I am very proud that he is doing this. It's hard though...Reminds me when we had to be apart when I lived in Tokyo and he lived here.

Wakame is ready to go!

Um, so I haven't really talked about the fact that Dav will be leaving for Brazil very soon. So soon, that he's leaving tomorrow. I'm not really able to talk about it actually. I prefer to think he's going on a biz trip (which is sorta the case, but a bit more involved). I'm dealing with this separation anxiety by full-blown denial...and I'm conscious of it...but it's pretty much all I can do.

I am very grateful for my friends who have promised to keep me so busy I won't even have time to notice how long we will be apart.

And good 'ol Waka. She just puts it the best: if I could, like her, I'd be packing myself right into Dav's suitcase too. She's all ready to go. See how she even scooted to the side to leave space for clothes? I know both Waka and Kats will miss him dearly (since they'll have to wait until I get home to be fed instead of Mr. Friendly Dav). We will all miss Dav.

p.s. I swear, Dav's Brazil travel book was just there like that. This pic was not staged in any way!

Extra!

A long time ago, Dav and I were extras in a movie that his cousin was an assistant director for (EMR). Dav's niece has a big part in it! So we're here to see it.

[post movie: Dav and I appeared as dark shadows for like 1 second...my gosh, a full day of shooting for that!]