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earthquake!

| April 18, 2008

the sound woke me up first, i think. something in the bathroom or the closet was making a high metal-on-metal sound. there was a slight shaking, which registered only after i was awake. the shaking became more intense and there was a lower rumbling sound. we sat up and tried to rationalize what was happening. [...]

this bodes ill

| December 7, 2006

so this morning, just after we woke, we were greeted by the sound of a jackhammer drilling into the street just outside our window. and by “just outside” i mean “no more than 20 feet away, even taking into account the fact that we’re on the second floor.” i should also mention that our “historically [...]

pedestrial

| October 31, 2006

most days we walk to and from work it’s about 8 blocks. we also make a starbucks run …almost every day at work (shameful, i know), and then there’s the walking to lunch that takes in the same general direction as starbucks on a daily basis. the point is, we do a lot of walking [...]