Nice day in Half Moon Bay

Jon and I drove out to the Ritz-Carlton in Half Moon Bay, which occupies an exquisite piece of ocean cliff just south of Highway 92. I didn't want to take off my shoes and deal with sandy feet, so we just walked down to the ocean as far as we could on the paved walkway. It was high tide, so that ended up being pretty close to water's edge.

Cool thing--we say 2 seals, or sea lions--we couldn't be sure--swimming fairly close to shore. In fact, they were in front of the waves most of the time. It was really cool to see them, since that's proof that there's still time to reverse the damage we're doing to the environment. If those animals are still swimming around, all healthy and seemingly happy, there's still something we can do to preserve their ecosystem. So shall we?

Nice! Moratorium on lethal injection in California!!

All I can say is, it's about bloody time. That Jeb Bush dummy has finally done the right thing by stopping all executions in Florida, but only after the man they killed in Florida last night took 34 minutes to die because they completely screwed up the injection. Can you imaging lying there strapped to that table and just wanting the thing to be over and they're torturing you first? Ugh.

Who knew that a Bush, or any relative of those political Bushes, could have a brain?

R.I.P. Uncle Robert 12/13/2006

My Uncle Robert died this morning, before my dad had a chance to see him and say goodbye. He and my mom were booked on a 1 p.m. flight to Casper via Denver today, and now for obvious reasons, they're going to wait until the funeral to go out there. I'm glad at least that my dad won't be traveling now, with all the weather-related delays and the difficulty of getting from SF to Casper. He's still refusing to do physical therapy, so his hips and knees are pretty stiff and it's uncomfortable for him to sit, stand or walk for long periods.

Of course, cheaptickets.com and United are both giving them a hard time about the postponement. What asses these companies can be, and how annoying that they seem to live to profit off of the hardships and changed plans of others, but that's not news. What is news is that of my dad's 5 siblings, only 2 are left alive. Aunt Helen is in Casper and Aunt Effie is in Lander, if I remember correctly, and both are several years older than my dad. He may well end up the last one standing, which is good and bad. Helen's on the downswing, and Effie's just moved into "assisted living". Why on earth do they call it that? Sounds like being in some kind of coma, which Effie's definitely not. Anyhoo, guess I'll have to see what happens next...back to doing PR.