more than numbers

Currently (and for the last few months), I'm living in San Francisco (Upper Haight), the city we all know and love.
For the vast majority of my growing up, it has been San Mateo (Baywood), right down the peninsula. This would be my hometown.
For the other part of my growing up, although I never permanently lived there, I did spend an aggregate of practically a year and a half in Bangkok (Ekamai).
And last but not least, I spent 5 years (college included) in Los Angeles (Westwood).

And I put the neighborhoods in parantheses since I think it's very hard to generalize a perception of an entire city. Especially big cities. Neighborhoods make all the difference.

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QotD: Weekend Wrap-Up

nobody@vox.com(Jon) — Mon, 17 Jul 2006 11:28:52 -0700

What did you do this weekend?

Got really sore.

Friday, probably the only non physically exhausting day of the weekend was spent going to an art opening at YBCA. Some good pieces, but not nearly my favorite show. Some very interesting elements to it. From there, spent the rest of the night hanging out in the mission.

On Satrurday, we picked up a new bicycle for Charm. After we picked up the bike, we decided to go on a short little ride around the city so she could start getting used to city driving. Well a short little ride turned into quite a longer one. From SOMA, we hit the embarcadero, through the craziness that is tourist season at Pier 39, braved the winds along Aquatic Park, stopped for lunch and a little Sports Basement action in the Marina, and then through the hills of the Presidio to Sea Cliff, detouring through the Richmond, cutting through Golden Gate Park back to our apartment. Yea, all in all a bit more than we bargained for.

Spent Saturday night in San Mateo - wow, 70 degree nights are a missed luxury.

Sunday was all about the Ultimate game we had planned. It was a good turnout of about 15 people. And it was harcore. Must have been touching 90 degrees and it was intense. About 2 hours of sprinting, diving (which I have a scrape to prove) and blocking. Yea, I love that game.

After that, cooled off at a friend's house while playing a game of pool. Not as refreshing a swimming pool, but fun nonetheless.

And today, I'm constantly reminded of the weekend due to my entire body being sore. I must be getting old. Or out of shape.

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Ultimate on Sunday?

nobody@vox.com(Jon) — Fri, 14 Jul 2006 12:40:14 -0700

Ultimate Frisbee [vector]

So it looks like we're going to have a pick-up ultimate frisbee game on Sunday down in San Mateo (where it is supposed to be 86 degrees) around 1pm.

We play every now and then, but this will be the first game of the year. Thought I'd through out an invite to all my loyal VOX readers -- if you want to give it a shot, let me know!

It's a really fun game, and quite the workout.

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San Mateo Wine Walk

nobody@vox.com(Jon) — Sat, 24 Jun 2006 17:47:33 -0700

Last night was the annual Wine Walk through downtown San Mateo. What a great way to kick off the summer. You buy a wine glass, and then get to walk into all the different merchants--tasting wine and sampling various appetizers. A lot of people come out and everybody has fun.

It's actualy been a little while since I've been down to San Mateo so it was a pretty crazy feeling being down there. Everything seems so much quieter than SF, that's for sure. But it was my 'hood for the majority of my life so still definitely had that neighborhood feel to it.

Fun times, fun times.

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