San Francisco

In the city of great food. Read tonight at a wonderful bookstore in Danville, Rakestraw books. If you live near it, go there. Tomorrow, at Cody's in Berkeley. Then Towne Center Books in Pleasanton on Saturday. If you're nearby, come to the reading. Free adverbs for everyone.

No meals at home this week, and that's a shame, because I do miss them. But I find as I talk about the book, and the year, that I am reminded again and again of why I quit a job, left my office, and got myself home for dinner. I have not been as regimented this year as last, but I am still cooking and still mostly home, and all I need to do is remember the great (and not so great) moments to know that it was really one of the best years of my life.

Right now, I'm waiting for a hamburger. Wireless technology is a wonderful thing. So are hamburgers.