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Jan. 17th, 2011
The weekend and week so far
Jan. 17th, 2011 12:19 pm1. Friday was of course meeting friend Mark, and Jim at the Sun for the usually happy hour.
2. It was nice not staying out late for a change, I was home and asleep by 10:30! That's PM guys!
3. Saturday night, friend Lee, and his partner Tom, organized a nice get together at Delancey Street Restaurant, for Lee's 45th birthday. Food was pretty good. Waiters were hot! (some could be ex-cons!). This is a great organization that always needs our support.
4. We later ended up at the ever packed Edge Bar (it closed yesterday), and then 440. Friend Jim met us there later. He had to unfortunately drive back to San Jose for a family issue, but later came back up to join me.
5. Sunday Jim and I took our lazy time getting out of bed, did the usual breakfast thing, then headed out to Moscone Center for the Fancy Food Show. Friend Mark, who is in the wholesale food business,for Ital Foods offered to get Jim and I into the sold out event.
6. Ital Food's display and foods were incredible! They probably had one of the most awesome exhibits there! We spent hours tasting foods, and drinks of all kinds.
7. Leaving the event, a bit nauseous, from mixing too many types of food, we were then off to 440 for Lees actual party day. He had the back part of the bar set up with balloons, and pizza for those that wanted to partake (we were too full to eat!)
8. Later we were off to the Edge for a few minutes for a final goodbye (actually they are looking at 5 other options in the Castro (the new lease at the current place jumped up from about $8000/month to $14,500/month).
9. Home early, and to bed early, watching the Golden Globes, I was up early with a bit of heartburn from all that food yesterday!
10. Back to work!
2. It was nice not staying out late for a change, I was home and asleep by 10:30! That's PM guys!
3. Saturday night, friend Lee, and his partner Tom, organized a nice get together at Delancey Street Restaurant, for Lee's 45th birthday. Food was pretty good. Waiters were hot! (some could be ex-cons!). This is a great organization that always needs our support.
4. We later ended up at the ever packed Edge Bar (it closed yesterday), and then 440. Friend Jim met us there later. He had to unfortunately drive back to San Jose for a family issue, but later came back up to join me.
5. Sunday Jim and I took our lazy time getting out of bed, did the usual breakfast thing, then headed out to Moscone Center for the Fancy Food Show. Friend Mark, who is in the wholesale food business,for Ital Foods offered to get Jim and I into the sold out event.
6. Ital Food's display and foods were incredible! They probably had one of the most awesome exhibits there! We spent hours tasting foods, and drinks of all kinds.
7. Leaving the event, a bit nauseous, from mixing too many types of food, we were then off to 440 for Lees actual party day. He had the back part of the bar set up with balloons, and pizza for those that wanted to partake (we were too full to eat!)
8. Later we were off to the Edge for a few minutes for a final goodbye (actually they are looking at 5 other options in the Castro (the new lease at the current place jumped up from about $8000/month to $14,500/month).
9. Home early, and to bed early, watching the Golden Globes, I was up early with a bit of heartburn from all that food yesterday!
10. Back to work!
"I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: 'We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.'"
"I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character."
"In a sense we've come to our nation's capital to cash a check. When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, they were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir. This note was a promise that all men - yes, black men as well as white men - would be guaranteed the unalienable rights of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. It is obvious today that America has defaulted on this promissory note, insofar as her citizens of color are concerned. Instead of honoring this sacred obligation, America has given the Negro people a bad check, a check which has come back marked 'insufficient funds.'"
"Now is the time to lift our nation from the quicksand of racial injustice to the solid rock of brotherhood. Now is the time to make justice a reality for all of God's children."
"Let freedom ring. And when this happens, and when we allow freedom ring—when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children—black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics -- will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual: "Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last
Martin Luther King and Gay Rights
"I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character."
"In a sense we've come to our nation's capital to cash a check. When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, they were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir. This note was a promise that all men - yes, black men as well as white men - would be guaranteed the unalienable rights of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. It is obvious today that America has defaulted on this promissory note, insofar as her citizens of color are concerned. Instead of honoring this sacred obligation, America has given the Negro people a bad check, a check which has come back marked 'insufficient funds.'"
"Now is the time to lift our nation from the quicksand of racial injustice to the solid rock of brotherhood. Now is the time to make justice a reality for all of God's children."
"Let freedom ring. And when this happens, and when we allow freedom ring—when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children—black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics -- will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual: "Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last