S/V Tavarua

Our friend, Eric, has been surmising about Cat Colorization.

“Siamese trait (the dark pigment on the nose, ears, tail, and feet ["points"]) is temperature-sensitive. The points tend to be colder and so the hair grows out dark. According to Jennifer Gates, who first told me about this, if you shave the fur of a Siamese, the first resulting coat in the area will grow in dark.”

….and from a reference to the Cat Fanciers site:

” Eye color is genetically related to coat color.

• Pointed cats always have blue eyes.
• White cats, and cats with a lot of white markings, can have:
  • blue eyes
  • green, gold, or copper eyes
  • or “odd-eyes” (one blue eye and one green or gold eye)!
• Other cats can only have green, gold, or copper eyes, not blue eyes.
  The most common eye colors are in the middle of the eye color
  spectrum (greenish-yellow to gold). The colors at the ends of the
  eye color spectrum (deep green or brilliant copper) are usually
  seen only in purebreds who have been selectively bred for extreme
  eye color, but they may sometimes appear in non-purebreds.”

For those Counting Crows fans in the audience, they’re playing five more nights at The Warfield this week and next. Tickets are available from here (via Ticketmaster).

Headed over for an interactive theatrical production in the Mission at Spanganga. A fine low-budget, small (tiny) house production. The actors did a fine job of recreating zombies, with the extra bonus of:

“Free zombie make-up to all guests who want it. This show is highly
interactive in nature. Your personal space will be violated. You will
scream. You will be grossed out. Not for vegetarians.”

With our resolve to remain non-vegetarian for the duration of that night’s dinner, we survived the play. Including a naked zombie wandering the hallways and Derrell toting a gun to shoot stray zombies that were hanging from the ceiling and randomly coming back to life. It was ridiculously hilarious.

Boo to all and to all a torn off zombie arm or two.

Just more of the same.. cruising San Francisco dining in jeans:

Naan N’ Curry - fantastic Indian in a dive of a cafe in the Tenderloin
Mykonos Greek - it looked like Greek food but it was like eating Mexican food in Helsinki, enough said
Borobudur - Indonesian in the Tenderloin, it was a stretch eating a spicy hard-boiled egg layered under carmalized onions and red peppers, then following it up with salted fish and peanuts, all said, it was probably too much of a stretch
Habana - semi-upscale Cuban, a noisy bustling place on Polk that does a California interpretation of Cuban
Slow Club - an industrial (”hip”?) place that is good when you are didn’t think about reservations anywhere in Potrero Hill area and are in the mood for California (a.k.a. grilled eggplant)
Town’s End & Bakery - breakfast in style starting with a basket of 4 different types of homemade bread, it almost makes us breakfast converts

We checked out the Red Bull Flugtag. An extremely odd event to say the least. It consists of teams of adults willingly flinging, leaping or catapulting themselves off of a pier. Sane? You make the call:

http://www.redbullflugtagsf.com/action.php

Good weather and a good view from our (short term rental) apartment in San Francisco. What a great Fleet Week, the Blue Angels were buzzing the city on practice runs on Thursday and Friday, then put on a show on Saturday and Sunday (as evidenced by the number of sailboats under the Golden Gate Bridge). We posted a few pictures, but this is when the pocket Casio really lets you know that it isn’t up for distance shots.

More restaurants adding to the waistline - in fine dining in jeans style:

Beetlenut - hopping place on a Friday! small dishes of flavor
Shalimar - extra fine Indian food in a not redecorated since the 30’s cafeteria setting
Blowfish Sushi To Die For - the Super Dynamite Roll to die for: hamachi, sake and green onion, wrapped in sushi rice, lightly fried, and topped with a spicy, Unagi chili sauce - and more fantastic rolls all served in a great extra-yuppie atmosphere

Okay, there were two restaurants that almost made us swear off sushi for awhile, but overall we are having good vibrations over the food. San Francisco-ites do not suffer, don’t let them ever tell you anything less.

We’re eating our way through San Francisco in jeans. Ah, it’s good to be back in Republic Amerika. So far, the ratings are:

Nob Hill Cafe - comfortable, cozy, nearby, downhill, okay pizza and pasta
Pakwan - OHMIGAWD, to die for Pakistani food and naan
E&O Trading Company - avoid “free jazz night”, but the food was quite yummy
21st Amendment - good bar food, excellent beer (decended from Twenty Tank)
Hunan Home’s Restaurant - a nice Sunday morning Chinatown eatery
Yabbies Coastal Kitchen - cumin/pecan encrusted sturgeon, what more can I say!?! Oh, Tiff says, ‘Apple Pie’…

Oh and if that isn’t enough, there’s what must be one of the largest Whole Foods on the planet just up the street…

If anyone’s interested in meeting for dinner or something, send email…

We have pictures! We posted them in chronological order, so naturally they’re backwards, like the weblog. So start off on Page 2 and work your way back…

Ah, the good old USA! California is PRETTY… and uh, COLD!

We are hanging out at Ken and Gab’s for the week, working on getting photos uploaded, and catching up on snail mail. We’ve already had a set of doctor appointments, eye exams and teeth cleaning… nothing like getting them out of the way while you are jet lagged. And now, finally, we can relax… um, until Friday.

Burning Man is next week, so all will be quiet for a few days. We have a one-way ticket out to Hawaii for Sept. 5th with absolutely no future plans in place.

Pictures should be up in the next day or so, some looking better than the actual place, and many looking worse. No awards here for photo-journalism.