April 1st, 2009 - A Day In The Life

In the random spirit of Facebook's "25 Random Facts About Me", here are "10 random facts'" which may (or may not) have happened to me on this day of fibbing. Not exactly a Letterman's Top 10 List, I know. All this happened to me today. Really. And oh, how I wish some of them were really not true, and it is all just a bad April Fool's joke:

1. I drove to the Stanford Medical Center Eye Clinic and was told again, without irony, "let's wait and see what the other doctor has to say..."

(pic) - anyone see what I'm saying here?

2. I drove up next to my dream car, a charcoal coloered Tesla Roadster (fully electric sports car that costs $100,000) driven by a young woman on Sand Hill Road in Palo Alto. She didn't acknowledge me when I rolled down the window of my Prius and gave her the thumbs up. I felt so dissed and disappointed.

(pic) - a charcoal colored Tesla Roadster.

3. On this day in history, someone very close to me was born and someone very close to me was found dead.



4. I sent an email to a childhood friend asking him if I could sleep over at his house this weekend. I addressed him as "Regular Gila" (In this case, gila is pronounced "GHEE-la", not "HE-la").

(pic) - Gila said yes, we'd love to have you!


5. When I set my Fantasy Golf selections for the week, I chose all the golfers whose first name is Charlie, Charley or Charles.

(pic) - Charley Hoffman escapes 'the beach'.

6. We ate dinner at a local vegetarian restaurant that used to be called "McDharma's" but they were sued by the fast food giant McDonald's for name infringement. So they removed the "Mc".



7. I was confirmed as a Facebook friend from a former SHS football teammate who is an actor who has played major roles in TV shows such as "The Shield", "Saving Grace" and "Cold Case". His wife is expecting their first child soon.

(pic) - the famous actor who shall remain anonymous and his lovely wife.

8. I called someone in Bangalore, India in the middle of the night (my time) to interview them for a job that would basically make my 'Globalization Manager' job the victim of globalization.



9. In Simon's room, I fed a purple snack to a real live pet rabbit that we are taking care of for a couple who is now in Thailand. This couple is expecting their first child in July. I'm very happy for them, but I can't stop worrying that another way of saying "they're pregnant" is "their rabbit died".

(pic) - caption says "* No actual rabbits were harmed in this pregnancy test."

10. I put fresh cut flowers (yellow and green mums, as well as a lei and a drumstick with a peace sign ring on it) at the beach near a sign that says "In Memory of Charlie Harrison". I go there every week. This time I was upset and distracted and I tripped over the curb and reinjured my badly sprained left ankle. It hurt like hell. I had to sit down and then I couldn't stop myself from crying. Not because of my ankle.


(pic) - flowers at the beach, circa April 2005.