Getting my money's worth

For the price of my haircut, I let my hairdresser spend 30 minutes blow-drying my hair straight. (For those of you getting your hopes up, I did buy my usual bottle of B&B Curl Conscious on my way out.)

Before things got ugly at the Tank

It was a fun game to watch until the score was 3-3. Hats off to Kipper, though, given a ridiculously lopsided shot count.

Tree hugger?

It's the middle Saturday of a business trip to the Bay Area, so to entertain myself I paid a visit to the redwoods in Big Basin.

Happy Mardi Gras!

While briefly in New Orleans, I got to see the start of the Endymion parade near my uncle's house. Yes, I got lots of beads, and no, that's not how you get them during parades, thankyouverymuch.