Geodog

A perfect day

An extremely rare personal entry. Politics and the state of the economy were getting me down, and the kid was out of school, so we decided to take the day off. I spent most of today on a gorgeous hike in Wildcat Canyon, only 20 minutes away by car from my house. Up and down a thousand feet a couple of times on a six mile loop trail, with beautiful views of the Golden Gate Bridge, Mt. Tamalpais, the Carquinez Straits, Mt. Diablo and the San Pablo reservoir, as well as not so beautiful views of the Richmond refineries. The plum and cherry trees on the approaches were blossoming, and the hillsides were Irish green and dotted with orange California poppies. Hawks were floating over the hills, trying to catch the ground squirrels scurrying from burrow to burrow. The kid got to get up close to cows starting to shed their winter coats, and had the joy of taking a short cut all by himself (hopefully not noticing Dad keeping an eye on him from the rear quarter). It was beautiful, and just what my soul needed. A perfect spring day, a perfect way to spend a day. This is why I live in the Bay Area, and put up with the incredibly expensive housing, jammed traffic, and lousy public schools.

Then spent the evening blogging hour(s) playing with my weblogs. Read some great stories at the preacher's place. Spiffied up my linklog and turned it into its own separate weblog, The Midnight Blog. Added Meg's cool yellow background for links. Played with the stylesheets, messed things up and backed out of my changes. Bought a new domain name (more on that later). Didn't check my email, which I am behind on. Tried not to read any political news (failed). Except for the latter, and for the hour the day is ending at, a perfect day.