Its Monday but its Not Really Monday, Is It?
Yeah, Mondays are supposed to entail the slow disentanglement from bed sheets as the struggle to come alive after a weekend of debauchery with wine, cocktails, bbq's, beaches, bikes, babes and six foot tall inflatable totem pole phallic symbols.
But this is a different Monday, isn't it? Memorial Day. Ahh, a sanctified day off, a national rest day. A day to clog the highways and roads of beach towns all across America.
There is nothing like holiday traffic in Santa Cruz. Not that I mind it much on my bikes or on the Suzuki.
And there were lots and lots of fun things going on this weekend.

Another day of yard sales, this time less lucrative but still lots of fun and we now are down to a single couch in the living room which has given us more space and an airy feeling. The scroll work couch didn't sell during the yard sale but a woman came by who was visiting from Oregon and wanted it but couldn't take it at the time. So she asked if we'd leave it on the front yard so she could get it the next day and she'd even give us a little cash for it too.

Sure enough, Paul had some cash for us at the house warming for his brother and sister in their new spot. Which is, truly cool, its a Santa Cruz style farmhouse on a hill without the farm. The kitchen is great but the place is made by the patio, a large expanse of weathered Santa Cruz redwood. The house warming was a small gathering of folks, some new, mostly not though. And some of us had already been playing beach volleyball earlier in the day together. I played, reasonably well given the length of time since my last games but still notched two L's and no W's. Oh well, it was fun and I did have some good hits, good digs and a few great serves. And there is also this, my first video submission to Intellectual Poison. Someone remind me to write about my latest favorite metaphor (though I like to entertain the delusion that its more parable than metaphor).

This is ignoring, for the moment, the wedding on Friday afternoon as well. It has been a busy few days.