Week 5 in Review

Squeaks's Top 5:

1. Spanish practice over pupusas and platanos con crema at El Zocalo, an El Salvadoran restaurant in SSF. Especially grateful for our waiter Roberto who patiently (and amusedly) engaged us in Spanish. Muy amable!
2. "The guy who invented the [toilet] flapper should be put in jail." - commentary from handyman Bob Antonelli on how traditional toilets waste so much water. He and his right-hand man, Jesus, spent most of a day touching up our past D.I.Y. projects to help us prep our home for sale. Five-star service!
3. Rang in the Lunar New Year -- the Year of the White Metal Rabbit in Chinese Astrology -- with a hot pot family dinner, complete with a bubbling cauldron of soup, vermicelli, sliced pork, shrimp, meat and fish balls, and an assortment of vegetables. A heart- and tummy-warming feast.

4. Explored and got to know the neighborhood a bit better via a circuitous 4-mile jaunt to post flyers for upcoming Clinic By The Bay health workshops. Encountered friendly neighbors en route, tending their vegetable gardens in this unseasonably warm weather.
5. Birthday Boy weekend, featuring authentic Chicago-style Lou Manalti's sausage pizza, freeze-dried and flown in from the source!

The San Francisco Chronicle's Top 5 (local news):

1. SF Bay Area frolics in record-setting heat.
2. Six hats in ring for SF mayor's race.
3. Protesters march in San Francisco to support Egypt.
4. Task Force finds little support for injection center for drug users.
5. Two arrested for shooting at police in Oakland.

And as a bonus, my favorite quote of the week (while catching up on HULU shows)...

Peter: Walter, are you all right?

Walter: If "all right" means despondent, then yes.

(Fringe, Season 3, Episode 10, Firefly)