westerns

i watched a lot of tv when i was a kid, many of them westerns:

• the lone ranger.  the black and white version that ran in the fifties.  high-oh silver!  it's about a masked texas ranger, his american indian friend tonto, and his horse silver righting injustices in the wild west.
• the rifleman, my favorite. it's about a widowed rancher raising his son.
• bonanza.  it's about the cartwright family and their life on the ponderosa ranch.
• little house on the prairie. adapted from the laura ingalls wilder books. 
• grizzly adams.  a wilderness man and his grizzly bear friend.
• there was dr. quinn, medicine woman when i was a bit older.

did any one else watch these shows too?

dolores park

i live near dolores park.  it sits between three neighborhoods:  the mission (mexicans, hipsters), noe valley (yuppies, young families), and the castro (gay men).  a silly analysis by sfgate.

personality

i revisit personality tests every once in a while when i'm thinking about what kind of work suits me.  i've taken a couple of them over the years:

• myers-briggs type indicator. 16 personality types that vary along four dimensions:  introversion / extroversion, sensing / intuition, thinking / feeling, and judgement / perception. 
• enneagram.  9 core personality types.

i'm a bit skeptical about them sometimes, but overall, i think they can be pretty helpful for giving you new ways to think about yourself and how you relate to / work with other people.  i like that the enneagram is flexible enough to allow for growth and change.

 

according to these guys, i'm an infj and a type six. 

 

rinse, wash, repeat

last, last weekend:

• fri.  work.
• sat.  mission beach cafe and mall madness with sammy, jimmy, and harry.  foraging at home depot for monkey hut materials (burning man).  sushi zone dinner.
• sun.  visiting annie and baby lexi.  work.

last weekend:

• fri.  date with kat.  panko crusted-pork chops with summer squash, mini-cupcakes from sweet.
• sat.  universal cafe brunch.  thrift store rummaging for burning man wear, yamo, made halibut with mango salsa.
• sun.  twenty mile bike ride at the tour de peninsula!  santa ramen.  work.  black bean, corn, and mango tacos.

this weekend:

• fri.  mall date.  out the door and julie and julia.
• sat.  bike ride to little skillet, farmer's market, drinks at zeitgeist, and salmon with mushrooms, green beans, polenta and tomato salad.
• sun.  mission beach cafe coffee and pastries, marin hike.