ooooh, i love it when i heard about improvements happening in my hometown! apparently a sketchy furniture rental store will move out and a festive belgian brew pub will move in on liberty street in a2.

okay, so this ad is dorky, but i do love ll cool j!

and in the last random thought for this post, i have been really enjoying my convertible lately, since it's finally summer-y-ish here in the bay area. nobody in the rest of the country seems to believe me until they see it, but it's ridiculously cold during the summer months (june until mid-august) here, with fog causing the high temperatures to only be in the low 60s sometimes. we're lucky it's been in the low 70s this week, and so the top on the convertible has been down...

now all i need is a super-fancy headscarf, like this: