San Francisco, CA -- Brief Visit to the Bay

Nary a post from this guy in well over two weeks... been really busy with setting up the new place. It's been a lot more work than I anticipated. It's almost done, and I should have pictures of it next week. I love it. I really don't miss the house at all.

I'm in San Francisco tonight for the first time. Unfortunately, I won't have time to do much here -- I have to fly back on Wednesday.

I have to be here for work, but I wish I weren't... I really hate flying to begin with, and now that the terrorists have taken away my Chapstick, it makes the six hour flight just that much more agonizing. I also seem to have a problem with the pressure changes on long flights, and upon descent this evening, I felt like every blood vessel in my head was bursting. Is that bad?

I'm in the midst of a book called Lies My Teacher Told Me, a book about all of the things about American History that we learned that were just whitewashing or ethnocentrism. I have to say, it's really sick what we did to the Native Americans -- for instance, the "Pilgrims" were only able to settle at Plymouth Rock because disease had wiped out the Native Americans who had been living there, and Squanto was actually a Native American slave who had been kidnapped and dragged to Europe. As crazy as it sounds, I think I'm going to sit Thanksgiving out this year.

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