Thanksgiving in Florida was terrific. Everyone (of course) loved Megan!

As you move toward a dream, the dream moves toward you. …. Pray to catch the bus, then run as fast as you can. ― Julia Cameron

This brought to you (and me) by my friend Marah. I certainly need such encouragement with all my chasing school stuff. (I’m taking the GRE in 9 days, and I’ve got a flurry of tests in front of me before Holiday break)

I wrote a letter to BART today. If you believe the same, please comment here and write to BART

I notice that Powell station recently got new illuminated signage at the platform level. Its very nice and legible from inside the train.

I need to point out that the 16th and 24th street stations remain ENTIRELY indistinguishable from one another from inside the train. The stations look IDENTICAL to one another and the existing signage is hidden in shadow.

Please install signage at 16th and 24th St stations so a traveller can tell them apart.

Thank you,
Lee Sonko

A few years ago when Charlotte and I were in a Penzeys spice store, we came across this bumper sticker.

We’re not sure how large the young urban cannibal market is, but Penzeys has a lock on it ;-)

Love People. Cook them tasty food.

If you ever get the chance to see an SRL show, you see it. A little more on the subject.

Enter:

SRL at the Extreme Futurist Festival 2012

SRL will be performing at this year’s  Extreme Futurist Festival  in LA December 22 2012. XFF is a 2 day arts and technology festival focusing on cutting edge science and technology along with transgressive performance art and music. Tickets are $35 for the SRL show only or $70 for the show and the festival.Purchase tickets through XFF here.

(A great new article about SRL)

I’m going to try to be there. Join me?

Here’s a boring geeky list of what makes Lee.org run.

• Ajax Edit Comments  by  The PluginBuddy Team. Some of my commenters use this all the time. Great.
• Akismet  by  Automattic. Since tweaking NoSpamNX perfectly, this is rarely needed. But I like having this as backup
• Artiss Plugins List  by  David Artiss. How I made this list :-)
• Brian’s Latest Comments  by  Brian Meidell. Essential part of my blog format :-)
• DoFollow  by  Kimmo Suominen. Since I don’t allow any spam on my blog, I think this increases my google juice.
• Faster Image Insert  by  David Frank.  Lets me edit while photos are being updated. Great.
• FLV Embed  by  Yaosan Yeo. An FLV video player :-)
• Google Authenticator  by  Henrik Schack. Helps keep me safe from hackers… and I feel better about logging and blogging on strange computers.
• Infinite Scroll  by  Beaver6813, dirkhaim, Paul Irish. Essential part of my blog format :-)
• Jetpack by WordPress.com  by  Automattic. I get to see what posts are popular
• NoSpamNX  by  Sven Kubiak. Keeps the comment spammers away. Read more.
• Related Posts  by  Alexander Malov & Mike Lu.  Essential part of my blog format :-)
• Search Everything  by  Dan Cameron of Sprout Venture. Works great.
• Search Excerpt  by  Scott Yang. Works great
• Smart Archives Reloaded  by  scribu. Makes a great archive page.
• Subscribe To Comments  by  Mark Jaquith. Used by many of my commenters
• WP-PageNavi  by  Lester ‘GaMerZ’ Chan & scribu. Essential.
• WP-PhotoNav  by  Fabian Moser. I’ve played with a bit and it works for panoramas. I often forget to use it though.
• WP FancyZoom  by  Stephen Granade. Essential.
• WP Super Cache  by  Donncha O Caoimh. The best cache.

Currently disabled…
* Login Lock. Works but Google Authentication works better (I think)

* Social
* Twitter Tools
* WPBook Lite. I replaced these 3 with Twitterfeed this week.

* Spam Free WordPress – By  Todd Lahman, LLC  It helped decrease comment spams but my current solution is working better

* No Adverts for Friends    By  Donncha O Caoimh – it looks like it broke a while back :-(

* Maintenance Mode  By  Michael Wöhrer. Hangs in the wings in case of spam hack attack or something.

I haven’t seen this phrase in months. It brings me a great sense of calm.

Now the big question:

Do I go for it or try to get accepted into an Occupational Therapy Master’s program at Samuel Merritt University / San Jose State University? I won’t know if I’m accepted into either of those programs til February or March.

What do I want? What can I get? What is achievable? What will bring me the most happiness?

Where do you think I should go in San Francisco? What do you think I should do? What restaurant to dine at? What mountain to climb? Please add to this list!

When I tell friends where I am, they wax poetic and start telling me where I -have- to go! It’s far less fun to go to such places alone so I look forward to friends buzzing me up and asking to go out [hint hint!]

Apparently my Twitter feed broke in late September. Well, I just fixed it. So all you twitts will now see my blog posts in my Twitter feed, @LeeSonko

I switched from using the TwitterTools WordPress plugin to using TwitterFeed.