Today I bought my last book at A Clean Well-Lighted Place for Books. I always thought that sucked as a name for a bookstore, but I loved the store itself. I spent a lot of time perusing the non-fiction tables in the back, looking for the perfect weekend read or birthday present for my brother. About 8 months ago, we heard Sean Wilsey read to a packed crowd, and that book was the last I bought. Appropriately, it is titled "The Glory of It All".

Yesterday, N. and I went on a perfect bike ride, and I recommend the route. We toured around around the park, and then headed out 8th Street to Lake. We turned East on Lake Street, and worked our way up Arguello, somehow skipping the nasty hill right before the Presidio. We took the nice new bike lanes out Washington Street to the new lookout (that is where the Night Ride went tonight. If you would like to go on a night ride, check out the SFBC calendar). We worked our way down to the Golden Gate Bridge, but skipped crossing it. Instead, we rolled down to the Warming Hut for a hot chocolate, and back around to see a very cool new temporary sculpture installed by the Black Arts Foundation. The Sculpture is at the Mission and the Embarcadero, you can't miss it!