I should be asleep. I have to get up for work at 7, but I can't sleep. Mike is in LA for a week, and I always have a hard time sleeping when he's not with me.

It's scary, sometimes, how much you can learn to rely on another person. Even their annoying habits, in different ways, are comforting (Though, Mike will be the first to point out he doesn't have any).

It's only a week, I know.

We had fun today - before he left. Did a little shopping (A/X - natch), went to a Cactus show (Guess who's idea that was), and fed the squirrels. In Golden Gate park, the squirrels will eat right from your hand. Honest. They like Almonds.

At the end of the month, his parents are coming up to visit. We're going to see Phantom, and maybe go to Reno for a couple of days.

Well, anyway. I should go to sleep. (Mike will kill me if he knew I was up this late.)

I haven\rquote t had much in the way of updates I know (apart from my bike tail of woe). This is for several reasons.

1)\tab I\rquote ve been sick. Really \endash I got sick , I think, because I took a harbor cruise with Mike Sawyer when he visited. I usually get well quick, but this one has been lingering.

2)\tab Oh yea \endash Mike Sawyer came out for a visit. It was good to see him, though on the other hand, while He was here I got sick, and My bike got flattened. I\rquote m not saying it\rquote s his fault but\'85well\'85anyway. Lets just leave it at that.

So \endash here\rquote s my update. I\rquote m still sick. Though better.

Oh, and Petco tried to pull a fast one on Mike. Fools! See, we finally got our fishtank up and running. I did everything by the book. Got the ph to 7 \endash which the recommended. Bought new aerators, new rocks, and 2 cool \lquote sunken temple\rquote fish tank toy thingies. We bought 2 \lquote generic\rquote fish and 1 angel fish. The angelfish died. We brought it back \endash and they said the Ph of the water was 6.4 or some such \endash which was a lie.

So Mike said to them \endash We used the 7.0 PH kit you people sold us. Also, I noticed that the 2 remaining Angel Fish in your tanks are now floating as well. Is your PH wrong?

He got the $$ back. That\rquote s why I love him.

That and his cute little Asian caboose.

Consider yourself updated.

Notice anything interesting about this picture? That\rquote s right, that\rquote s my new, less than 1 week old bike, lying mortally wounded on the sidewalk after A BIG TRUCK JUMPED THE CURB AND SMASHED INTO IT! (Oh, and the other Bike is Mike's).

I think maybe I\rquote ve made too much fun of Pat Robertson\rquote s Age Defying Pancakes and upset god.

Well, no that would mean god likes Pat.

Maybe it\rquote s just the ransom chaos of the Universe out to get me.

Of course, then it wouldn\rquote t be random.

Maybe I shouldn\rquote t have taken that odd looking idol from that Cave when I went to Hawaii with Greg and Marsha.

Anyway I'm off to surf. I mean, what else could co wrong?

I have kept political items off this side of my blogging but I have to share that Al Franken, Funnyman and Author of 'Rush Limbaugh is a big fat Idiot' and "Why not me?" has a book due out this fall. I can't wait.

He actually got into an intellectual knock-down drag-out fight with Bill 'fox' O'Reilly on a C-Span booknotes program.

C-Span - is there anything you can't do?

Anywho - wondering about the title?

Lies and the lying liars who tell them.

Here's the cover:

In my continuing attempt to fill you all in on every mundane aspect of my life - I bought a new bike. Some of you may recall that hooligans in SF stole my bike with no thought to how it would effect me as a human being and member of our collective community.

So I bought a sweet bike. A Schwinn Mountain Bike s-20 with front and rear suspension, and the nice gear shifter I like.

Here's a picture.

Well, 2 slightly frightening airplane trips back (which, for most people, means they were pretty smooth) and Mike and I are back in SF. And it\rquote s COLD! Well, cool anyway. 60s or so.

To answer everyone\rquote s concerns, YES! Mike\rquote s plant\rquote s are well. They missed him \endash but somehow were able to survive. We did spend a chunk O' time on Sunday tending to them, however. (I should mention we waited until Sunday, because on Saturday \endash when we got back,. About 3pm local time, we took a nap. Mike woke up at 3am on Sunday \endash I woke up at 6am.)

I miss my family already, which brings me to my only regret about the trip \endash I think I tried to cram too much \lquote fun\rquote into it, and not enough \endash \ldblquote Let\rquote s have fun by playing games and talking\rdblquote time in. Oh well, I\rquote ll know better next time.

Hi to Greg and Steph and John \endash who had dinner with us. And my apologies to Alex (who I need to call), because I blew him off \endash not purposefully, but just because the last 2 days were such a blur.

I have a week to recover \endash then Mike Sawyer comes to visit!