Category: Blog Posts About Me

We went to San Francisco yesterday and started things off right by going to Taylor’s which has awesome burgers and sweet potato fries. We surprised our birthday boy at the Motown Madness musical.  Motown isn’t my favorite music in the world but I mentioned before going in that as long as I’m not the one singing I’m sure I’ll enjoy it.  Little did I know almost half way through the musical they would pull me up on stage to sing and dance.  Let me tell you I put up a good fight to try and keep from going on stage but the crowd was applauding so what can you really do at that point.

As you can see I have some awesome moves and even decided to do a move out of turn.  Yeah I’m the dweeb who turns when nobody else turns!  We got some of it on iPhone video which isn’t the greatest quality but you aren’t supposed to record in the theater so we are lucky we got what we have.

Then after they humiliated me the first time after intermission they came back for more by asking “hey where did that guy from Livermore go?”.  They came and made me stand up again and ask what my name is.  They said they have never had someone so shy come up on stage so they decided to keep after me.  They then asked who was sitting next to me and pulled her up so we could slow dance in front of everyone in the theater.  For a wallflower like me it made me turn bright red I’m sure but I kept smiling and tried to make the most of it.

After the musical we went to North Beach for some italian food and decided on Tony’s Pizza.  We didn’t know it at the time but it was Tony Pizzano’s restaurant who is the world pizza making champion.  Tony was there and we sat right next to the kitchen so we were able to get a few exchanges in with him.  Tony was really nice to us and made sure everything was good.  We then went to the Mark Hopkins Hotel to see the birthday boy’s hotel room which was very nice.  We went up to the Top of the Mark in a sweatshirt and tennis shoes but for the most part they were nice about letting us quickly look around.  We then went to get some coffee and then headed back to BART.  It was a really nice day, even if I did make a fool of myself.

I’m not sure if I have blogged about this yet but I have my own way of measuring the success of a day.  I say if you will remember the day on your death bed it was a good day.  So many days pass us by and we simply live them day to day not really making the most of them.  I can tell you yesterday was a death bed day!

OK here is the first video of me getting moved to the center of the stage because they were worried about me running off.  I’m in the middle of the stage which is good because one of the singers blocks me most of the time.

Oh and last but certainly not least, here is me turning when nobody else turned.  I rule at this if you can’t tell.  Oh and a little singing.

Went to Lake Merritt this afternoon for a 3.4 mile walk which was fun because the weather was beautiful today.  After the walk we went to Fenton’s Ice Cream in Oakland because we couldn’t possible have a calorie deficit.  We then walked down Piedmont Street and found Gaylord’s Coffee which was a funky coffee shop.

We went to Joan’s Farm & Pumpkin Patch in Livermore this morning and I think we got some great pictures.  The lady in the video is Joan, the owner of the pumpkin patch.

It’s official, according to the Nike site I ran like a girl in the marathon!  I think for walking the majority of the course we made pretty good time.  Haha, still funny though.

Well, we survived the marathon today and I’m pretty sore but glad we did it.  I clearly have some training to do for next year but here are some pictures and a video of the 13.2 mile death march.

We went to the city last night to pick up our marathon gear.  I carried a pink (OK it has some red tones to it) bag which had “Run Like a Girl” through the city and BART.  Even though it was a pink bag I felt so athletic.  I mean I’m sure people looked at me and said “obviously he is an athlete ready to run a marathon”…I could see them saying that…I could.  Not to mention I posed in front of a women’s marathon race tent (yes this is me posing).  Even though we are walking the marathon I have a feeling I’m still going to be feeling it Monday morning.  The “race” starts at 7am tomorrow so I’m readying myself by blogging and drinking coffee this morning.  Game on marathon…game on.

Had a fun time at the President’s Dinner tonight at 7,910 feet.  We took a gondola right up to the top of the mountain where they have a lodge for the dinner.  Here is a picture of some of us before dinner.  I’m coming home to California tomorrow! 

I did a talk this morning at CMMA on technology communication trends.  I’m uploading the video but here is a PDF of my presentation.