I was staring at the ceiling of my gym yesterday after an hour of jump rope and yoga. I took even took a picture of the ceiling from where I was lying on my back:

My gym is at the old Alhambra movie theater, which opened in 1926. It used to look like this:







Brrr...

It's freezing in San Francisco right now. At least for San Francisco. I used to live at the base of The Swiss Alps. It was warmer there in February than it is riding on my motorcycle past sundown in San Francisco. 

Still, I love it. Yesterday I hung out in Hayes Valley. The picture above is the corner of Hayes and Octavia.

This one from a parking lot off Hayes closer to Gough.

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Wow. It has been a busy couple of months. I want to get a few more entries in before The New Year. 

Some updates: 

I met my gorgeous niece Amara over Thanksgiving and visited with my family while doing some research about a story I'm incubating about a guy with brothers who gets together with them and the rest of his unusual family around the birth of a new babe.