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By Jeralyn, Section Blog Related
Posted on Mon Jan 31, 2011 at 09:07:23 PM EST
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I'm sure there's big news but I'm focused on the deep freeze. And there's a new Harry's Law with Kathy Bates tonight. If you haven't seen it, check it out.

Here's an open thread, all topics welcome.

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    Dadler is moving to NoCal (5.00 / 2) (#1)
    by Dadler on Mon Jan 31, 2011 at 09:37:39 PM EST
    Done deal. We just agreed to a lease on a house in Millbrae.  Wife is working for a relatively new and socially conscious (no laughing please) bank.  Good schools with band at the elementary level was the clincher.  That and nothing we saw in the east bay in our price range did it for us at all (considering the longer commute my wife would have into the city).  Any San Francisco tips, recommends, whatever, are more than welcome, they are encouraged. I'm a SoCal boy 44 years from birth, I'll be all outta whack.  Just hoping, mostly, we get a good crop of kids in the neighborhood for Eli to make friends with. Really, that'll make everything else moot for me.

    I can just add my congratulations (5.00 / 1) (#23)
    by ruffian on Tue Feb 01, 2011 at 09:36:17 AM EST
    and recommendation to check out the Golden Gate National Recreation area and Marin Headlands (in addition to everyone else's fine recommendations of course). I had the most soul soothing walk there after a long week of work in San Jose many years ago. You can walk along the bluffs on the coast, then go down to Muir beach and see otters.

    I have a continual debate with myself as to whether I will end up back in California or Colorado when I finish my stint in Florida. Today California is winning!

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    i hope you love it. (none / 0) (#2)
    by jeffinalabama on Mon Jan 31, 2011 at 09:59:09 PM EST
    I interviewed three times in nocal, and wound up in north alabama. I hope you can find a good community garden, also... please keep me informed.

    I loved Ft. Ord, and wanted to stay, but time and karma said no. North of there was just better.  

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    Thanks, I'm sure I'll keep EVERYone informed (none / 0) (#4)
    by Dadler on Mon Jan 31, 2011 at 10:04:25 PM EST
    And the only time I ever heard of Millbrae before we looked at houses there was in the great Jack Kerouac poem "October In The Railroad Earth." (LINK)

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    Well Jeff (none / 0) (#9)
    by Ga6thDem on Tue Feb 01, 2011 at 07:47:14 AM EST
    at least you didn't end up in Lower Alabama :)

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    Yep, I've had more interviews in California (none / 0) (#11)
    by jeffinalabama on Tue Feb 01, 2011 at 08:11:35 AM EST
    that left me in Alabama... most of them because of Cali funding issues. Two jobs offered and pulled because of colleges/universities having to cut back during the last 15 years.

    At least in LA they just say, "Nope. don't want ya any more."

    But watching the sun rise magestically over the Wiregrass, wearing PT clothes soaked before starting because of the humidity, and watching fat aviators run... priceless. Cue Paul Anka's "The times of your life," with a Lycoming engine warming up underneath, brings a lump to my throat ;-)

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    Try this: (none / 0) (#5)
    by oculus on Mon Jan 31, 2011 at 10:31:42 PM EST
    Bombay Superstar

    Plus Opera in the Park (free; Sept.; see San Francisco Opera website)

    Opera at the baseball park on the big screen.

    San Francisco Symphony

    ACT for theatre.  

    Lucky you.


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    Don't forget down in the South Bay (none / 0) (#8)
    by Harry Saxon on Tue Feb 01, 2011 at 12:37:01 AM EST
    Gilroy Garlic Festival

    In my home town of San Jose, there are:

    The Rose Garden with 4,000 rose bushes.

    Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum

    The nations' largest urban trail system with 53 miles total in length

    The Ira F Brilliant Center for Beethoven Studies, the largest collection of Beethoven outside of Europe, located as San Jose State

    The Dr. MLK, Jr. Public Library, which shares its collection with SJSU, making it the largest public library west of the Mississippi

    but

    don't go to the Winchester Mystery House, that's for the rubes(I meant tourists)  

    Do you know the way to San Jose?
    I've been away so long. I may go wrong and lose my way.
    Do you know the way to San Jose?
    I'm going back to find some peace of mind in San Jose.

    L.A. is a great big freeway.
    Put a hundred down and buy a car.
    In a week, maybe two, they'll make you a star
    Weeks turn into years. How quck they pass
    And all the stars that never were
    Are parking cars and pumping gas

    You can really breathe in San Jose
    They've got a lot of space. There'll be a place where I can stay
    I was born and raised in San Jose
    I'm going back to find some peace of mind in San Jose.



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    My kids loved the Winchester Mystery (none / 0) (#42)
    by oculus on Tue Feb 01, 2011 at 11:43:40 AM EST
    House.  The Most Beautiful Public Building (Courthouse in Santa Barbara), not s