#866469 - 09/07/08 12:49 PM
At long last...Home.
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HOP Mad Doctor
Registered: 28/05/01
Loc: Brisbane, Oz
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The color of the light is right. The feel of the air is right. The smell is right. The people are right. The buildings are right. The general air is right. It's just all so... right. I am in San Francisco. After one seemingly endless year of waiting, desiring, yearning, hoping, praying, begging time to just speed up... ...the plane landed today and the lady next to me must have thought I was crazy because I was grinning ear-to-ear. As of 12:15 today when the wheels of my plane touched down at SFO, I am a resident of San Francisco. I've come home. And I feel... happy. 
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-Mike )'( Certified Mad Doctor and HoP High Priest of Nutella
"My love waits there in San Francisco Above the blue and windy sea When I come home to you, San Francisco Your golden sun will shine for me " -Tony Bennett
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#866470 - 09/07/08 02:04 PM
Re: At long last...Home.
[Re: Doc Lightning]
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Basu gasu bakuhatsu - because sometimes buses explode
Registered: 21/07/03
Loc: Angel's Landing, USA
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Good god Doc, you landed at a crappy time. It's actually 102 degrees F here in East Bay!  And the air quality is crappy! Now we must hang out! I'll hit you up PM since I missed you in NYC - though I did get to meet the old man and Mrs. Moles 
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To do: More Firedrums 08 video? Wildfire/US East coast fire footage LA/EDC glow/fire footage Fresno fire
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#866473 - 09/07/08 09:05 PM
Re: At long last...Home.
[Re: roarfire]
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there's no charge for awesomeness... or attractiveness
Registered: 06/04/06
Loc: limbo
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YAY...!! congrats doc...
I've only ever been O/S once... for 4 weeks to the U.S, lots of years ago. and san francisco is the only place I visited that I felt I could live in. assuming it hasn't changed too much in the last 15 years, it's a fabulous place. and has the most incredible classical guitar shop I've ever seen!!
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--pogo (pat) [forever and always]
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#866475 - 10/07/08 12:12 PM
Re: At long last...Home.
[Re: CaffeinatedKatie]
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HOP Mad Doctor
Registered: 28/05/01
Loc: Brisbane, Oz
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It really hadn't hit me yet... ...except just now I was driving across the Bay Bridge and suddenly, there, right in front of me was the city skyline, including the Transamerica Pyramid all glittering in the sunlight. Suddenly I broke out in this huge, ear-to-ear grin. I  LIVE here! 
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-Mike )'( Certified Mad Doctor and HoP High Priest of Nutella
"My love waits there in San Francisco Above the blue and windy sea When I come home to you, San Francisco Your golden sun will shine for me " -Tony Bennett
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#866476 - 10/07/08 03:37 PM
Re: At long last...Home.
[Re: Doc Lightning]
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Sitting down facing forward . . .
Registered: 16/10/06
Loc: Christchurch
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now all we need to do is make sure there's a Marmite shop conveniently located for you and you will be in heaven!!  Ah well, I guess you can't have absolutely everything can you!!  *runs and hides while Mike's confused and too happy to worry overly much* 
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Written by: Doc Lightning talking about Marmite in Kichi's Intro thread I have several large jars of the stuff. I actually like it... a little. And don't tell anyone I admitted to it.
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#866477 - 10/07/08 07:39 PM
Re: At long last...Home.
[Re: georgemc]
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HOP Mad Doctor
Registered: 28/05/01
Loc: Brisbane, Oz
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*ambushes George with an obscenely large tub of Nutella crepes*
I went on a date tonight. We went to my favorite Middle-Eastern place in the world, which is called Kan Zaman. It's on Haight Street right down from Amoeba Music. They have belly dancing there, too. And hookahs (tobacco, for those of you who are wondering; it may be SF but it's not LEGAL).
I used to go there every few months when I was in college, but it was such a trip all the way up from Stanford.
Now it's a 10 minute walk from my apartment.
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-Mike )'( Certified Mad Doctor and HoP High Priest of Nutella
"My love waits there in San Francisco Above the blue and windy sea When I come home to you, San Francisco Your golden sun will shine for me " -Tony Bennett
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#866481 - 20/07/08 03:47 PM
Re: At long last...Home.
[Re: Doc Lightning]
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NYC
Registered: 26/08/01
Loc: NYC, NY, USA
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#866482 - 20/07/08 10:58 PM
Re: At long last...Home.
[Re: NYC]
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HOP Mad Doctor
Registered: 28/05/01
Loc: Brisbane, Oz
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#866484 - 22/07/08 03:50 PM
Re: At long last...Home.
[Re: NYC]
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Naked Moon Dancing Lady
Registered: 27/08/06
Loc: The wrong place
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Doc, if you like the belly dancing, you should check out Ultra Gypsy...they're absolutely wonderful!!! Our class does alot of their combos in choreos.
Glad you're feeling at home. Now if only I could get back home to the land of Oz, all would be right in the world.
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"Absence is to love what wind is to fire...it extinguishes the small, enkindles the great." --Comte Debussy-Rebutin
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