Books Read in 2002:
A room with a view - EM Forester
Blood Meridian - Cormac McCarthy
Confederates in the attic - Tony Horwitz
Disappearing Acts - Terry McMillan
Five quarters of the orange - Joanne Harris
God and the evolving universe - James Redfield et al
How to study the bible for yourself - Tim LaHaye
Harry Potter & the prisoner of azbakan - JK Rowling
John Henry Days - Colson Whitehead
Jurasic Park - Michael Crichton
Killing time - Caleb Carr
Making a literary life - Carolyn See
Movies in the mind, how to write a short story - Colleen Mariah Rae
Screenwriting - Richard Walter
Sin and Syntax - Constance Hale
The age of innocence - Edith Wharton
The dynamic laws of prosperity - Catherine Ponder
The Four Agreements - Don Miguel Ruiz
The house of the sleeping beauties & other stories - Yasunari Kawabata
The house on mango street - Sandra Cisneros
The jungle book - Rudyard Kiplinq
The right to write - Julia Cameron
Things fall apart - Chinua Achebe
Watermark - Joseph Brodsky
When god writes your love story - Eric & Leslie Ludy
Who moved my cheese - Spencer Johnson
Woe is I, a book on grammar - Patricia T O'Connor
Year of Wonders - Geraldine Brooks
Your Infinite Power to be Rich - Joseph Murphy

Check this this link out, Top SF Restaurants offering $29.95 dinners & $19.95 lunch. Such a deal! Eleven of the restaurants are on The SF Chronicle's top 100 restaurants for 2002. It's a froggie price fixed 3-course menu, but $30 for a dinner at a fancy and usually very expensive restaurant in San Francisco is quite a bargain.

Those Ariana Huffington SUV and terrorism ads are very funny. I almost bought a hybrid car in 2000 when I needed to buy a new car, but I was wary. The Honda Insight I was told, needs to be plugged into a socket to get power and I don't have a garage so the car didn't make any sense for me. The Toyota Prius looked okay, but you can't get it with a sunroof, and I have to have a sunroof on my car. A sunroof is so essential to my driving life, since I don't like wind blowing on my face.

My Golf is an automatic and it has 2.0 litre engine (a big engine), so the gas mileage is so-so. I get 22-24 mpg for city driving, which is what I mostly drive, and about 30+ for freeway driving. I went down to San Luis Obispo from San Francisco one weekend, and made it there driving on 101 on half a tank of gas one way. The mileage when I drive long distances in my car is amazing! It's city driving that sucks. If a drove a stick, I'd probably have better gas mileage.

Ships that pass in the night and speak each other in passing; / Only a signal shown and a distant voice in the darkness; / So on the ocean of life we pass and speak one another, / Only a look and a voice; then darkness again and a silence. -Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, poet (1807-1882)