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Should I Leave the House?

Posted by Stuart at 04:57 AM on December 19, 2004

Jet Lag is a bitch. Especially when you are having too much fun to actually get any rest.

I figured that it would be better for me to not take a nap on my first full day in San Francisco yesterday. So instead I ran errands: shopping at the Apple Store, buying a SIM card so that my phone will work, eating a big steak burrito at Zapata's taqueria...

Around dinner time I met about 15 ex-co-workers from my dot-com days at ThirstyBear, then I met up with Rupert, who took me to a new place on Market called Lime, and then to one of our favorite old watering holes on Polk Street.

Meeting my old friends at ThirstyBear was especially fun, yet very odd. We were all there, in the flesh, everyone looking the same and talking the same and acting the same. It was as if the last three years didn't happen, as if we were all still working together. I kept wanting to say, "Don't forget about that meeting on Monday with the BEA client" or something else "project managerish".

And today? I haven't been able to get out of bed, except to eat croissants that Rupert was kind enough to get for me, to take a nice long bath in his jaccuzzi tub, and to drag myself over to the computer to check email and to write this post.

It's 3:00 P.M. now. The weather looks beautiful, at least from the inside. Maybe I should actually leave the house at some point...