Just before my move to the SF Bay Area, I had a note to myself with a list of things to do.

It reads:

San Fran

ALCATRAZ

Biking 

San Fran
Great Highway (near cliff house)
GG pk
Pac. Cst Bike rte

Palace of Leg. of Honor

Roller Blading 
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6 . 7 . 66 . 71 @ Central or Msonic

33rd & Irving Sunset Soccer

11/22 vacation day

Call moves; 

Betty -> #vacdays

This was clearly before I knew you NEVER call San Francisco "San Fran" or "Frisco," it's always "the City."

I'm chuckling at the biking references, since I haven't been interested in biking since Guy and I split THIRTEEN YEARS ago (though the reference then is perfectly understandable).

The other locations are probably ultimate games.

November 22nd was a vacation day, and I was interested in how many vacation days I would be cashing out as I left my job in Los Angeles and moved north.

This note is clearly from November 1997.

And yes, I'm throwing it out now.

Of note, my handwriting is the same now as it was then: mixed lowercase and uppercase to keep all of my letters the same x-height (the distance between the baseline and median of a typeface).

I backed the OpenPhoto project today on Kickstarter.

I'm a HUGE fan of "own your own data," which limits how much I share and how broadly I post. While I'm excited about others commenting here on my blog, I often hesitate to post elsewhere, as I don't have a way to archive much of it back here on my site. I prefer to manage my own photo albums locally instead of Flickr, I'd prefer my own videos instead of Vimeo but haven't managed that one quite yet, I prefer my own email over my Yahoo! account or GMail account (or @mac.com aaccount or whatever else email account I have whereever I've left them). While I archive my tweets, I haven't integrated them locally yet. The lack of keeping my own data is one of the reasons I dropped Facebook. At least Google has the Data Liberation movement.

So, this project? This project is awesome in two ways: Jaisen is working out of the Dojo, and it's all about owning your own data. This excites me beyond belief.

And if it has a decent API where I can post from my phone or command line, well, then, hot damn!

So, while Jackson and I were throwing (but not up), Annie and Bella were wandering around the fields. I was keeping an eye on the two dogs are we were tossing, and eventually needed to go fetch Annie who had run far enough away from the two of us that I was uncomfortable. I convinced Jackson to huck the disc as far as he could in Annie's general direction, while I chased it down. I would then throw the disc short for him to run on to. in this way, we moved closer to Annie while still throwing.

Annie was a good girl, to my surprise, and stopped when I approached her.

She never does that.

She sat there, and looked at me. I stood there, and looked at her, pondering what dog this was and what had she done with the real Annie.

After I picked Jackson up from camp, after we ate a late lunch, and after he recovered somewhat, Jackson and I took the dogs off to the local school. As the two of them wandered around sniffing the butts of all the dogs around us, Jackson and I started throwing the disc around. Given my experience with throwing around the disc with the rest of my family, I had very low expectations of how this would go, but I figured I'd have a good time anyway: throwing around the disc even if I have to run for every throw coming nominally in my direction is always fun.

So, I handed Jax the disc and wandered a bit away, and let him throw.

The disc flew right to me. I didn't need to move a step to catch it. Okay, this wasn't going to be too bad.