July/August 2014

Life:

• Parents visit (Napa earthquake)
• Aquiris visit in Brazil (Ballistic reaches 100K+ DAU)
• Grand Prix Portland (40th/659)

Events:

• Engagement Party @ the Blums'
• First lunch w/ Rabbi Peretz

Movies Seen:

• X-Men: Day's of Future Past (decent)
• Philomena (okay)

Books Completed:

• The Score Takes Care of Itself
• The Hard Thing About Hard Things
• The Circle

Books In Process:

• A Constellation of Vital Phenomena
• How Music Works

Restaurants of Note:

• Poggio
• Redd
• Millenium
• Bobo's
• AQ
• Outerlands

June/July 2014

Life:

• Brian & Morgan get engaged on 7/17 overlooking Nice
• Israel & France vacation 
• Jeremy's daughter Sofia was born
• Visited Seattle

Events:

• Batya & Be'eri's wedding
• Molly & Jason's wedding
• Batsheva dance company (Tel Aviv)
• Yann Tiersen
• Rufus Wainwright

Movies Seen:

• Love & Lemons (okay)
• Boyhood (good)
• Quality Balls (solid)
• Edge of Tomorrow (decent)
• Noah (terrible)
• Chef (okay)

Books Completed:

• The Dance of Dragons
• The Stranger

Books In Process:

• How Music Works
• The Circle
• Psychomagic

Restaurants of Note:

• Kokkari (37th birthday)
• Range
• Mirazur (Menton)
• Messa (Tel Aviv)
• La Fountaine (La Turbie)

May/June 2014

Life:

• Jeremy's Wedding
• Hazon Ride in Marin
• Mother's Day in Napa

Events:

• Ben Folds and the San Francisco Symphony
• Jen Schick's birthday @ Americano

Movies Seen:

• Godzilla (eh)

Books Completed:

• Signifying Rappers
• Animal Farm

Restaurants of Note:

• Woodberry Kitchen
• Ozumo

April/May, 2014

Life:

• New Orleans trip w/ Ginger
• Justin visits for a week (bike ride to Tiburon, hike @ Pt. Reyes)
• First Syrian Seder
• Visit to Disney @ Burbank
• Fitbit, month 1

Events:

• Jazzfest
• Day 1: Lyle Lovett, The String Cheese Incident, The Wailers, Marcia Ball, Greensky Bluegrass, Tizumba & Tambor Mineiro of Minas, Johnny Sansone, Stanton Moore
• Day 2: Christina Aguilera, Alabama Shakes, Chaka Khan
• Day 3: Bruce Springsteen, Foster the People, Trey Songz, Al Jarreau, Better than Ezra, the Revivalists, Johnny Winter
• Morgan performs on a panel @ Yom Hashoah
• Sarah's birthday in GGP
• WW2 Museum

Movies seen:

• Jodorowski's Dune (great)
• Teenage (eh)

Books completed:

• Lightning Rods
• How Fiction Works

Restaurants of note:

• State Bird Provisions (w/ Morgan, Justin & the Blums)
• Commonwealth (w/ Morgan, Justin)
• Restaurant R'evolution (w/ Ginger, NOLA)
• MiLa (w/ Ginger, NOLA)
• Coquette (w/ Ginger, NOLA)
• Verti Marte (w/ Ginger, NOLA)

March/April, 2014

Life:

• One year anniversary w/ Morgan
• Reduced days per week to three, which is fun in theory but not so much in practice
• Moved out of 1574 Dolores Street for good
• Started to play music again
• Weight at the highest point since 2006 (using fitbit app w/o wearable)

Events:

• Neutral Milk Hotel
• Bill Cosby
• Giants game
• Day of Learning
• Piper Kerman
• Dashiell Hammett

Movies seen:

• Mud
• Captain America: The Winter's Soldier
• The Budapest Hotel
• Short Term 12 (again)
• The Eagles Documentary

Books completed:

• A Short History of Nearly Everything
• The Wizard of Earthsea

Restaurants of note:

• Saison
• Pizza Hacker
• Farm Shop
• Sushi Ran
• Village Market
• Mandalay
• Wise Sons
• Local Mission Eatery (w/ Tronster & girl)

Up next:

• Further work adjustment
• Statebird Provisions w/ the Blums
• Passover dinners w/ the Blums
• Justin visits
• Jazzfest with Ginger
• Jeremy's wedding
• Israel/France trip
• Portland GP w/ Lan
• Many other weddings
• Costa Rica

February and March, 2014

Things done:

• Moved in w/ Morgan
• Launched Ballistic
• Downshifted to 3 days/week @ Rumble
• Napa Trip
• Fammy Awards Gala
• The Music Man (w/ Aaron Vanderbeek performing)
• Dashiell Hammett retrospective
• Alain de Botton
• Facebook Improv w/ Rob Huebel and Paul Scheer
• Bought my Rumble shares

Movies seen:

• The Lego Movie (Solid)
• Oscar Nominated Short Films -- Documentary (Good)
• Her (Ambitious)
• The World's End (Ok)

Books completed:

• Locke & Key Vol. 3
• Locke & Key Vol. 4
• Locke & Key Vol. 5
• Locke & Key Vol. 6
• Esopus Vol. 14
• Esopus Vol. 20

Restaurants of note:

• Mustards Grill

Skipped:

• David Kelley

January, 2014

Things Done:

• Work trip to Aquiris in Porto Alegre, Brazil
• Bought dressers for me & Morgan
• Laurie & Ari's Wedding (w/ Berkeley day off)
• Bat Ya's bowling b-day
• Each meal had 50% fruits and/or vegetables

Movies seen:

• 12 Years a Slave (Ok.)
• Inside Llewyn Davis (Sticky.)
• Lone Survivor (Ok.)
• Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit (Eh.)
• The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (Ugh.)

Books completed:

• Where'd You Go, Bernadette?
• Locke & Key Vol. 1
• Locke & Key Vol. 2

Skipped (due to illness):

• "Did Hollywood Collaborate w/ Hitler?" w/ Greil Marcus and Ben Urwand
• Isabel Allende

Milestones, 2013

Things to be thankful for:

• Meeting Morgan & every day after
• Alida's recovery
• Improved heart health
• Jeremy & Anna
• Being part of the leadership team @ Rumble

Memorable events:

• Paul & Erin's Wedding
• Super Bowl XLVII w/ dad, Justin, Jeremy & Anthony in New Orleans
• Burning Man #2
• Ballistic @ Cabo San Lucas
• Thanksgiving w/ Morgan & crew in Seattle
• Egg Night 6
• Lake Tahoe trip
• MIT Sports Analytics Conference
• Balloon Fiesta
• EDC/Stag Party
• NG prototyping w/ Josh & Adam & crew
• Andrew & Sam's Bend wedding
• Working w/ Adam & Art & crew
• Napa birthday
• Buying a new car
• Bonfire at Ocean Beach
• Gary's 75th birthday
• Morgan's 3 birthdays

Performances seen:

• Primus (left after 4 songs)
• Jared Diamond
• Nick Kroll
• Pinky & the Brain (the voices of)
• Todd Barry
• Portlandia Q&A
• Rob Huebel & Paul Scheer
• Celebrity Autobiography (Janeane Garofolo, Maria Bamford, Rachel Dratch & friends)
• Super Bowl: Beyonce, Destiny's Child, Alicia Keys, Jennifer Hudson
• Lisa Loeb
• The Specials
• Bay Area High School Poetry Slam Finals
• Sarah Chang
• Joyce Carol Oates
• Nicholas Carr
• Bob Saget
• Temple Grandin
• Lettie Cottin Pogrebin & Gloria Steinem
• EDC: Hardwell, Fatboy Slim, Tiesto, Markus Schultz, others
• Allen Ginsberg memorial reading at CJM
• David Byrne & St. Vincent
• Justin Timberlake & Jay-Z
• Richard Dawkins
• Margaret Atwood
• Hardly Strictly Bluegrass: Martha Wainwright
• Balloon Fiesta: Darius Rucker
• Davy Rothbart
• Anjelica Huston
• Frank Gehry
• Ann Patchett
• Alice Waters
• Amy Tan
• Jonathan Richman

Memorable restaurants:

• State Bird Provisions
• Bouchon
• Baker and Banker
• Le Charm
• AQ
• La Ciccia
• El Gaucho
• Andre's
• Sage
• The Prime Rib
• Sadie's

Books, 2013

Books that leapt to the front of the stack:

• Buddha Vol. 1-8
• Ready Player One
• Shakespeare: The World As Stage
• Grantland Quarterly Vol. 1-6
• Infinite City: a San Francisco Atlas
• Wampeters, Foma, and Granfalloons
• Are You My Mother?

Books purchased this year that are in process:

• Inferno: the World at War
• A Brief History of Nearly Everything*
• Lone Surfer of Montana, Kansas
• McSweeney's Vol. 13

Books I finished, no regrets:

• Skellig
• Breakfast at Tiffany's
• Habibi
• The Collected Works of Billy the Kid
• Daily Rituals
• A Feast for Crows

Books that were on the right path until they weren't:

• The Art of Fielding

Books that I finished after getting through 2/3's many years ago:

• The Universal Baseball Association, Inc., J. Henry Waugh, Prop.

Books that I have already forgotten:

• Raven Girl
• New York Drawings
• The Signal and the Noise

Books I couldn't maintain interest in:

• Leonard Cohen: I'm Your Man
• Why We Broke Up
• The Metaphysical Club
• Sugar, Salt and Fat
• A Short History of Women
• Thinking Fast & Slow
• Herb Caen's San Francisco: 1976-1991

Books purchased this year that I haven't started yet:

• Great Streets
• All Over the Map
• A Dance with Dragons
• Moby Dick
• Stray Bullets Vol. 1
• Locke & Key Vol. 1
• Where'd You Go, Bernadette?
• Midnight Cowboy
• The Wizard of Earthsea
• The Innocence of Objects
• How Music Works
• The Complete Calvin & Hobbes

Movies, 2013

Film I enjoyed most: 

• Short Term 12

Films, distinct and memorable:

• Before Midnight
• Gravity
• Pacific Rim
• All is Lost

Films that inspired me to check Wikipedia immediately after viewing:

• Rush
• 20 Feet from Stardom

Films, with no regrets:

• Blue Jasmine
• Nebraska
• Frances Ha
• Crystal Fairy
• 42
• The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
• The Hobbit: Desolation of Smaug

Films where a group of underdogs stand up and clap for someone who stood up for a worthy cause, which somehow spoils the entire film:

• Dallas Buyer's Club

Films I've forgotten about already:

• Iron Man 3
• Oz The Great and Powerful
• American Hustle
• The Wolf of Wall Street
• The Great Gatsby
• Ender's Game
• This is the End
• The Book Thief
• Lee Daniels' The Butler

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Films I wanted to see but haven't yet: 

• 12 Years a Slave
• Fruitvale Station
• Don Jon
• Mud
• Inside Llewyn Davis
• Blue is the Warmest Color
• Her

Films I probably won't see that I considered:

• The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
• The World's End
• Captain Phillips
• Philomena
• Wadjda
• Ginger & Rosa
• Salinger
• Frozen
• Saving Mr. Banks