Here are a few shots from today:

Ford Fiesta Hybrid

Dash Hemp Clothing Co. from Santa Cruz. These are very nice shirts, washed-out colors. There are a lot of organic, green, hemp type clothing stands. Many nice natural-looking women’s’ clothing outfits.

“M&M Timber Framing is a building and design company located in Northwestern Pennsylvania. We specialize in heavy timber beam construction. We design and construct a variety of unique buildings. Whether you are interested in residential homes, or needing barn building and repairs, or looking for a cozy cottage or cabin. We are a company that prides itself in innovative design concepts and constructing structurally sound buildings. Our approach in the building process actually reduces construction time and labor costs, which translates into cost savings for home owners.

We are seeking home owners that are looking for a building and design company that thinks outside the box. Our buildings are rustic and whimsical in design, we encourage home owners to partner with us in the design process. Many agree that the residential home market lacks creative and innovative designed homes. We ask why settle for an ordinary home, when you have an option to build a one of a kind home with us. Contact us.”

https://www.mmtimberframing.com/

Last night the moon rose over the ridge. It’s a miracle, what with all the harm humans are doing to the planet, that the full moon still rises, is still in orbit. I went down to the beach and got in the ocean a few days after getting back. Got under water long enough to feel the chill get to my bones, and voila! I was tuned back into home turf (surf).

Rain clouds this morning, it was blue grass music driving in along the ocean, program called “A Banjo Friday,” Flat & Scruggs: Your Love is Like a Flower / Ned Lubernick: Owed to Earl, great banjo…

the waves are slow and full coming into the beaches, sort of luscious, a hearty n/w swell…

Doyle Lawson, white gospel, I’m finding Joy in My Saviour, beautiful singing / Ralph Stanley, The Girl From Greenbriar Shore — I don’t know what it is he has, but he has it. On one level it’s a pretty thin voice, but he does something with the notes and it comes out unique…

Then John Hammond doing Nadine, a great song (one of the highlights of the Stones Get Yer Ya-Yas album) Nadine, honey, it that you?

Next time you cross this magnificent bridge, check out the corbled designs of each cross-strut. There’s a great book called The Gate by John van der Zee, which describes the true lead designer of the bridge mathematician and Greek scholar Charles Ellis, not Joseph Strauss, as it was formerly thought.

Heard a great new Bonnie Raitt song with a cooking band as I got into North Beach…

Kevin was way ahead of me with this tool. He’s decorated it with “…Random stickers I had around the office.” Here’s his write-up:

“I am loving my 11-inch Mac Air.

Since I previously did not have a laptop, I carried a first generation iPad for my travel device. I spent several months on the road with only the iPad in the US, and a several long trips overseas with only the iPad for my connection. I had trouble doing a lot of writing on the iPad so I got the nifty blue took portable keyboard — which is a very fine piece of technology. I considered duct-taping the keyboard to the iPad to prevent the frequent inadvertent key activations which drain the pad’s power, but then these new Airs came along to solve my problem.

The smaller 11-inch Air is about the same weight as the iPad plus keyboard, and just as cool. Battery will last a cross country flight. Instant awake (from sleep), compact, enough speed and power for non-game needs, it has everything I wanted except a touch screen. It’s more of a working stiff, but it can play too. It has a full sized keyboard, and sits easy on the lap or knees, or even in your arms. Compared to an old Mac Air it feels light as a breeze, and feels like a zero compared to a MacBook.…”

Yesterday he emailed me the below link, along with the comment: “It would be perfect if it had an optional 3G cell phone connection. Lots of cities in the world have almost no wi-fi.”

More at: https://www.kk.org/thetechnium/archives/2011/03/nice_air_book.php

I left Hong Kong at 1:00 AM Monday and somehow got into San Francisco at 9PM Sunday night. My brain was slightly scrambled. Thanks to the individual screens in the 747 and 100 movies and 800 TV shows, the time went fairly fast. I never look at the time on a long flight. I’ve always loved movies. As a kid, my friends and I would take the streetcar down to (Market Street (San Francisco), get off at Van Ness, where the magnificent Fox Theater was, and walk 6 or 7 blocks down toward the Ferry Building, deciding which of the 20 or so theaters to go to. On the 2 flights I saw Goodfellas (had never seen, fabulous role by Joe Pesci), Killing Bono, a Clint Eastwood where he’s a Texas Ranger, a runaway train movie with Denzel Washington, a lovely French movie about a bachelor dad and his daughter, and watched 2 episodes of Curb Your Enthusiasm, which I’d never seen, piercingly funny, one episode with Rosie O’Donnell, another with Ricky Gervais; funny as all get-out.

The Green Festival is in San Francisco this weekend. A bright spot when I got back was these 15″ x 22″ blowups of pages from the tiny homes book for the festival, where we’ll have a booth; Rick made these on our Epson Stylus Pro 4800. We’re also putting up a 27″ x 34″ blowup of the cover.

Big news: Two advance copies of the book and 100 copies of the tiny tiny book are set to arrive by 4:30 today via FedEx. Our printers (Paramount in Hong Kong) are really on the ball. Am I excited!