new Beatrice job, sick cats, meteors, a person

[Kragen Sitaker]

Beatrice has a new job!  She wasn't looking, but this job lead for a
better-paying job within walking distance and working with French and
American charities just dropped into her lap.  And she got accepted
today!  This is wonderful!

Monday, I went over to my friend Becca's house to help her feed her
sick cat.  She's pretty upset --- the cat may be terminally ill, which
makes her very sad.

I picked up an old friend of mine from the airport, which was nice ---
we got a chance to kind of catch up on things.  He's in town for a
conference.

The Perseid meteor shower had its peak last night; unfortunately, San
Francisco was covered with fog, so I couldn't see any meteors from
home.  So I went with Ping and Primrose to watch it from Mount
Tamalpais.  The gate to go up into the park was locked (since it was
after sunset), and unfortunately I never did learn to pick locks, so
we parked in front of the gate with all the other cars and walked up
the hill until we found a nice meadow where we could watch.  We told
stories of princesses chained to rocks and enjoyed the show.

It wasn't nearly as good as the Leonid shower Beatrice and I watched
in November, but it was still pretty cool.

-- 
<kragen@pobox.com>       Kragen Sitaker     <http://www.pobox.com/~kragen/>
Edsger Wybe Dijkstra died in August of 2002.  This is a terrible loss to the
whole world.  See http://advogato.org/person/raph/diary.html?start=252 and
http://www.kode-fu.com/geek/2002_08_04_archive.shtml