Responds well to deadlines

I have the bad habit of not working on my house much unless/until someone is coming to visit. Then I get all adrenalized and go to town on various projects on the to-do list. A friend is getting married this coming weekend. Friends of hers from Australia, whom I'd never met before, are staying at my house for a week.

I procrastinated until last weekend, when I kicked into high gear. Things done: fixed two plumbing items, cleaned/drained/fixed relay on hot tub so now it's clean & hot again. Mondo hours of yard work (ouch, my back). Cleaned outdoor chairs. Primed the screen door, & painted the front door, sill, and French doors. Hardest of all: tackled the stacks of mail, magazines, papers etc. and threw out almost everything. Then, on a roll, I weeded out my closet. Woo Hoo! My wonderful neighbor cut 5 vases worth of flowers for me! Lavendar and gardenia smell especially wonderful; white bunch roses in a green vase remind me of my favorite Van Gogh; orange lilies in a deep blue vase, and assorted blue, deep purple and white flowers in a periwinkle vase = beautiful.

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I love overheardnyc in general. This is marvelous:

College girl: The real reason I went to San Francisco is that I wanted to go to Japan, but that was as far as I could afford.

--14th Street 1/2/3 station

I think every city should be represented. Okay, maybe not every city, but major regions or major cities. Northern Calif., Southern Calif., San Francisco Bay Area.

Could someone LJ/computer savvy help me start an OverheardSFBayArea?

Here's the link for NYC's: http://www.livejournal.com/userinfo.bml?user=overheardnyc

Techno Not

Oy, never mind about the overheard sf. It's a whole big Thing in NYC, a feed not just an LJ thing. Der.

Now that I have speakers on my computer at work, I can start listening to music that I've never heard. Well, after everyone else has gone home and the cleaning people are cleaning around me, like tonight. I listened to Sleater-Kinney for the first time a minute ago. Maybe I'll go find out who They Might Be Giants are next.

Speaking of music, allow me to promote my nephew, the jazz trumpter, Erik Jekabson. There was a very nice mention of him in a article in the Chronicle recently.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/06/28/DDGK2DELQQ1.DTL
Jam session: every Wednesday night from 10:15 p.m. to 2 a.m.
at Amnesia, 853 Valencia St., San Francisco. Free. (415) 970-0012.