Maybe a tiny bit

Yesterday Hugo and I rode our bikes from Hercules, across the Carquinez Bridge, into wherever you are when you cross the Carquinez Bridge (Vallejo, probably). The plan is to ride to Davis this summer. I don't think we're on track for that. It's going to take a while to work up to it.

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A super neat guy

 

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Not the most expedient route

JANUARY 27, 2017 - Saw Michael Chabon last night at BPC. Really good talk/interview. The interviewer was an NPR correspondent who had spent time in Iraq, among other places. I asked a question at the end about the organizing principles he uses when approaching a book.

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The razorblade method

Before my mom got married she worked at Kaiser Steel in Fontana as a secretary, where she did a lot of typing of letters, memos, and forms. The method of correcting errors at the time was to use a razorblade to scrape the ink off the page.

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Inevitable question

they were shaped like pencils. blue, with a white line along each edge. their erasers were so coarse they would rip the paper when you tried to use them. there were 12 in a box. the box was sitting on a table in the classroom...

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