I have been chastised

By coffeeem for not posting around my birthday. So hello! It's my birthday! I talked to my mother earlier. "Well," she said, "fifty-three years ago at this time, I was feeling fine. Later, it was not so great. I don't see how it can have been that long, I really don't. It's bizarre. But we don't really wish for the alternative, certainly."

David and Lydy and I went out for dinner to Taste of India, on about fifteen minutes' notice.

Thanks to everybody for the birthday wishes, whether in comments below or in your own LJ. I appreciate them absurdly much, and am so bad at proffering them myself.

( Notes of a visit to the Bay Area )

( Thursday: the search for dinner )

( Friday: Tilden Park, Middle Harbor Park, food, shopping )

( Saturday: REI, food, Ano Nuevo State Park, Bonny Doon, Santa Cruz )

( Sunday: Strawberry Creek Friends Meeting, Vollmer Peak, Mount Tamalpais )

( Monday: Strybing Arboretum, Stow Island, Ebi-Su )

( Tuesday: Twin Peaks, and the airport )