She has a book out on the history of the town of Port Costa, California, scenically located on the Carquinez Strait where the Sacramento/San Joachin River delta connects to the San Francisco Bay.
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She took all (or most) of the recent pictures of the town, which has quite an interesting (a bit sordid even!) history. She’s somewhat of a community elder there (and she’s going to absolutely kill me when she reads THIS…), having recently left the Historic Bull Valley Inn, where she was manager for… um… a few years.
Anyway, the promised Shameless Plug™:
You can purchase this fine bit of History from the publisher, Arcadia Press, from Amazon.com, or in most of your Finer Bookstores in the SF Bay Area!
BARCELONA, Spain — With its soaring but impossibly slender columns and masonry that resembles heavy frosting, Antonio Gaudí’s unfinished masterwork La Sagrada Familia seems as if it might suddenly collapse on itself, like a surreal cake.
But the architect in charge of efforts to complete the church, Jordi Bonet, one of the most visited monuments in Spain, says the building is indeed threatened — by a train tunnel that, if built as planned, would be dug within a few feet of its foundations. “The project could cause irreparable damage to the Sagrada Familia,” said the architect, Jordi Bonet, 81, who leads a group of 20 architects. “The slightest shift could cause ceramics to fall from the vaults. It could provoke cracks.”
I'll post anyway. My life is still sh*t, but I just finished a site for a non-profit (pro bono, of course), and I'm in the preparation stage of developing a website for Santa Rosa Free Clinic (pro bono, at least initially). For the first project I modified a (collectively) previously decided-upon logo and built a site around it, using PHP and CSS (edge-y) to make it easy to update. …
I left a comment on someone’s blog, intending to be humorous, but it received some very serious replies. One was of the variety of “I would rather … this, than … that…”
Be careful what you ask for.
Running Up That Hill (A Deal With God) – Kate Bush
It doesn’t hurt me Do you want to feel how it feels Do you want to know, know that it doesn’t hurt me Do you want to hear ’bout the deal that I’m making You, you and me,
CHORUS
And if I only could I’d make a deal with God And I’d get him to swap our places Be running up that road Be running up that hill Be running up that building If I only could oh…
You don’t want to hurt me But see how deep the bullet lies Unaware I’m tearing you asunder Ooh there is thunder in our hearts Is there so much hate for the ones we love ‘Tell me we both matter don’t we You You and me You and me won’t be unhappy
And if I only could I’d make a deal with god And I’d get him to swap our places Be running up that road Be running up that hill Be running up that building If I only could oh…
You You and me You and me won’t be unhappy C’mon baby c’mon darlin’ Let me steal this moment from you now Cone on angel, c’mon, c’mon darling Let’s exchange the experience oh,
And if I only could I’d make a deal with God And I’d get him to swap our places Be running up that road Be running up that hill With no ploblems.
And if I only could I’d make a deal with God And I’d get him to swap our places Be running up that road Be running up that hill With no ploblems.
And if I only could Be running up that hill With no problems.
This is my most recent collection of CSS experiements, using photographs and the Poetry of Robinson Jeffers. One page doesn’t present at all properly in Internet Explorer with any version less than 7. I design using Firefox 2, but most pages work more or less as intended using Opera.
Oh play me a blue song and fade down the light I’m sad as a proud man can be sad tonight Just let me dream on, oh just let me sway While the sweet violins and the saxophones play And Miss, you don’t know me, but can’t we pretend That we care for each other, till the band reach the end
One step for aching, and two steps for breaking Waltzing’s for dreamers and losers in love One step for sighing and two steps for crying Waltzing’s for dreamers and losers in love
Now they say love’s for gamblers, oh the pendulum swings I bet hard on love and I lost everything So don’t send me home now, put a shot in my arm And we’ll drink out old memories and we’ll drink in the dawn And Mr Bandleader won’t you play one more time For I’ve good folding money in this pocket of mine
Oh, one step for aching, two steps for breaking Waltzing’s for dreamers and losers in love One step for sighing, and two steps for crying Waltzing’s for dreamers and losers in love
Oh Miss, you don’t know me, but can’t we pretend That we care for each other, till the band reach the end
Oh, one step for aching, two steps for breaking Waltzing’s for dreamers and losers in love One step for sighing, two steps for crying Waltzing’s for dreamers and losers in love Waltzing’s for dreamers and losers in love
