Sunday, September 30, 2007
Breakfast at Chris and Nate's with Chris and Nate. I was surprised to find a parking space at 10:00 AM on Townsend Street, but it would appear that parking is not a problem in their neighborhood on the morning of Folsom Street Fair. Nate made perfect waffles, which we ate with syrup and butter and with jams his parents (his mom) made—raspberry jam and pear ginger jam. Oh, yes—sausage, too. Chris stayed home while Nate and I went to Folsom Street Fair. Actually we went to Ted and Emery's Folsom Street Fair party—their condo happens to be just inside the fair boundaries near 11th and Folsom. We were second to arrive (after Boman) and the policy of whether shoes should be removed or not removed had not been decided, so Nate and I waited in the hallway for a minute while a meeting was held between Emery and Ted. Nate brought a bottle of wine; I brought family size boxes of Triscuit and Wheat Thins. Their place reminded me of the place Steve Miles had in Wallingford except it was more floors (5 if you include the roof and garage) but each floor was a smaller size than each of Steve's. Emery showed off the 3-week old Mini Cooper—white and blue, I think—and my favorite part was the tandem sunroofs, sort of like the California Edition of the BMW 318ti but all glass, two pieces, and more sophisticated opening and closing options. Emery went through the choices and I was thinking nothing but, "Yes! Yes! Yes!" The party was a huge success, and yes, the floor was in a pretty sorry state at the end. People contributed to and partook of the giant liquor collection as well as the food spread, much of which was from Costco, and tasty. Many people arrived and left; I could not possibly name them all, but they included Ted, Emery, me, Nathan, Scott and Andy, Stephen F, Tony A, Jordan, BK, Kel (Dr. K), Bucy, Jonathan (JY), Galen, Yuki, ynotswim, Jeff and Dan, Joshua and Joe, Greg and Antonio, Mozilla Paul, Efram, Alita, Mike B, Bruce, Phil, Drew, Danny, Quyen, Devin, Chris (with the Powershot A85), Todd, Chris and Andy, Will W, Harrison, Moo Moo Bryan, DaveR, Eric (the neighbor in 18, I believe). I met Paul who is on the Mozilla team and when I told him about my Software Update Failed error message woes he seemed really interested in gathering data from me about it and gave me his business card. At 2:45 PM Nate and I essentially fastwalked through the fair (stopping briefly for Nate to say hello to Todd) to get to the other end at the 7th Street stage where Kimo was performing The Career of Madonna in 20 Minutes (or something like that) which Nate had never seen before. The crowd was huge—the performance is so popular now—that it was very hard to see. I felt even sorrier for the man next to me who was perhaps 5 feet tall and probably saw nothing. We walked back to the party more slowly going back, then stayed at the TedEmery party until around 6:30 or 7:00. Stephen F told me salacious stories from his life (New Orleans, calfs, homophobia in jail, Will and Grace), which I enjoyed very much. I was getting tired around this time, though. I walked back with Nate to their place, picked up some things I left at their place, and drove home. Made scones for tomorrow. Dinner at home by myself: boboli pizza essentially same as last time. LGBT viz work.