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Tonight's Late Late Show guests are Dave Grohl, Rainn Wilson, and Jordana Brewster.
Today, Memorial Day falls on my father's yahrtzeit. I miss him.
When I was little my dad was stationed at the Pentagon and we lived in a suburb of D.C. He was not given to hero worship, once impressed me with a remark that he wouldn't cross the street to see somebody famous, but one Memorial Day he took me to Arlington National Cemetery, and held me up to see over the crowd as President Kennedy laid a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.
My dad is buried at Arlington and I sometimes visit the nearest national cemetery, at the SF Presidio, on Memorial Day to remember him, but I didn't go today. I haven't even left the house! Doing some half-hearted spring cleaning in between watching the Giants game and reading the paper.
How was your weekend?
I went on a super hike yesterday at this place (not my photo but was on this trail)
Here's more pics; our loop included part of this trail but not the very highest steepest part. http://www.modernhiker.com/...
We went up about a thousand feet with spectacular views, then along a ridgeline for a ways, then looped down through oak woodlands and chapparal and riparian meadows in turn. The trailsides were quite brown and dry but with lots of wildflowers nevertheless. (Also large flourishing stands of poison oak that I hope I avoided and washed off well enough.) The descent was pretty steep and fast; we thought we were done but the trail went up again for about a mile and it was THE LONGEST MILE EVER in the history of walking, made longer and more agonizing by a troop of little kids running up and down the trail and frolicking between our legs. Every time we paused to let the family get ahead of us, the parents would stop and rest too.
I'm way out of shape and my calves are sore today but would go again in a minute -- call me if you want to come to California and hike! But not this trail in the summer though. It gets wicked hot out there.