San Franciscan. Gay. Happy. Mouthy. Married. Snarky.
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Last Notes npub1qxf4uj73el7yjjqcee6d5xfp56fl996hfahxxllh9wrvnh38z7jsa9dmnr Bob Horowitz *nods* npub1qxf4uj73el7yjjqcee6d5xfp56fl996hfahxxllh9wrvnh38z7jsa9dmnr Bob Horowitz Portrait npub1qxf4uj73el7yjjqcee6d5xfp56fl996hfahxxllh9wrvnh38z7jsa9dmnr Bob Horowitz beautiful, and beautifully taken npub1qxf4uj73el7yjjqcee6d5xfp56fl996hfahxxllh9wrvnh38z7jsa9dmnr Bob Horowitz Me, when I hear someone pour a martini into a martini glass. npub1qxf4uj73el7yjjqcee6d5xfp56fl996hfahxxllh9wrvnh38z7jsa9dmnr Bob Horowitz You forgot pot-smoking. 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And I'm still laughing. npub1qxf4uj73el7yjjqcee6d5xfp56fl996hfahxxllh9wrvnh38z7jsa9dmnr Bob Horowitz *chuckles* npub1qxf4uj73el7yjjqcee6d5xfp56fl996hfahxxllh9wrvnh38z7jsa9dmnr Bob Horowitz Back again to 25th Street in the Mission, this time with a proper camera rather than the Polaroid. npub1qxf4uj73el7yjjqcee6d5xfp56fl996hfahxxllh9wrvnh38z7jsa9dmnr Bob Horowitz Happy Pride, everyone. Peace to you all. npub1qxf4uj73el7yjjqcee6d5xfp56fl996hfahxxllh9wrvnh38z7jsa9dmnr Bob Horowitz Seriously though, I hope there was no damage from the hail storm. npub1qxf4uj73el7yjjqcee6d5xfp56fl996hfahxxllh9wrvnh38z7jsa9dmnr Bob Horowitz Impressive 👍 npub1qxf4uj73el7yjjqcee6d5xfp56fl996hfahxxllh9wrvnh38z7jsa9dmnr Bob Horowitz It has been a while since I posted one of these pictures of oil drops in water. So here you go. npub1qxf4uj73el7yjjqcee6d5xfp56fl996hfahxxllh9wrvnh38z7jsa9dmnr Bob Horowitz Civilized societies have second breakfasts. npub1qxf4uj73el7yjjqcee6d5xfp56fl996hfahxxllh9wrvnh38z7jsa9dmnr Bob Horowitz "Cross that bridge" she said 🌉 npub1qxf4uj73el7yjjqcee6d5xfp56fl996hfahxxllh9wrvnh38z7jsa9dmnr Bob Horowitz *clears throat and prepares to lecture* npub1qxf4uj73el7yjjqcee6d5xfp56fl996hfahxxllh9wrvnh38z7jsa9dmnr Bob Horowitz LET THE DOG DRIVE npub1qxf4uj73el7yjjqcee6d5xfp56fl996hfahxxllh9wrvnh38z7jsa9dmnr Bob Horowitz It's old but still holding up... like us !!! 😁 npub1qxf4uj73el7yjjqcee6d5xfp56fl996hfahxxllh9wrvnh38z7jsa9dmnr Bob Horowitz So one last personal post this week, because today would have been my ex-boyfriend, college roommate, and lifelong friend Cal's 74th birthday. Cal was amazing - cute, bright, funny, and sarcastic. npub1qxf4uj73el7yjjqcee6d5xfp56fl996hfahxxllh9wrvnh38z7jsa9dmnr Bob Horowitz ooh these look good! npub1qxf4uj73el7yjjqcee6d5xfp56fl996hfahxxllh9wrvnh38z7jsa9dmnr Bob Horowitz Three good things: npub1qxf4uj73el7yjjqcee6d5xfp56fl996hfahxxllh9wrvnh38z7jsa9dmnr Bob Horowitz Pride Parade, San Francisco, June, 2012. npub1qxf4uj73el7yjjqcee6d5xfp56fl996hfahxxllh9wrvnh38z7jsa9dmnr Bob Horowitz Happy hump day, everyone. Here in San Francisco it is a mild, almost cloudless, blue sky day. Terrible for gloomy photography but a good day to get outside and generate some vitamin D's. Yuck. npub1qxf4uj73el7yjjqcee6d5xfp56fl996hfahxxllh9wrvnh38z7jsa9dmnr Bob Horowitz Heron's Head Park, yesterday, 3:41 p.m. npub1qxf4uj73el7yjjqcee6d5xfp56fl996hfahxxllh9wrvnh38z7jsa9dmnr Bob Horowitz You have captured your mother with great dignity and warmth. npub1qxf4uj73el7yjjqcee6d5xfp56fl996hfahxxllh9wrvnh38z7jsa9dmnr Bob Horowitz oh no I feel terrible for you npub1qxf4uj73el7yjjqcee6d5xfp56fl996hfahxxllh9wrvnh38z7jsa9dmnr Bob Horowitz It was an accident. Sorry. Won't happen again. npub1qxf4uj73el7yjjqcee6d5xfp56fl996hfahxxllh9wrvnh38z7jsa9dmnr Bob Horowitz #SilentSunday #photography npub1qxf4uj73el7yjjqcee6d5xfp56fl996hfahxxllh9wrvnh38z7jsa9dmnr Bob Horowitz Teh coyote problem in this town has gotten out of hand 😳 npub1qxf4uj73el7yjjqcee6d5xfp56fl996hfahxxllh9wrvnh38z7jsa9dmnr Bob Horowitz 🦵🦵 npub1qxf4uj73el7yjjqcee6d5xfp56fl996hfahxxllh9wrvnh38z7jsa9dmnr Bob Horowitz This is also how I greet people who come to our front door 😁 npub1qxf4uj73el7yjjqcee6d5xfp56fl996hfahxxllh9wrvnh38z7jsa9dmnr Bob Horowitz You win. I fold. npub1qxf4uj73el7yjjqcee6d5xfp56fl996hfahxxllh9wrvnh38z7jsa9dmnr Bob Horowitz The Marin Headlands, where 100 million year old sedimentary rock has been pushed up from the ocean floor by plate tectonics long before my time. npub1qxf4uj73el7yjjqcee6d5xfp56fl996hfahxxllh9wrvnh38z7jsa9dmnr Bob Horowitz We are a month ahead of you with my friend Bill's house. The estate sale ended and the house was cleared out four weeks ago. The house is now in escrow, with a closing date possibly on May 13th. npub1qxf4uj73el7yjjqcee6d5xfp56fl996hfahxxllh9wrvnh38z7jsa9dmnr Bob Horowitz This was obviously important to them... They should have been clearer. npub1qxf4uj73el7yjjqcee6d5xfp56fl996hfahxxllh9wrvnh38z7jsa9dmnr Bob Horowitz Like Lascaux only newer. npub1qxf4uj73el7yjjqcee6d5xfp56fl996hfahxxllh9wrvnh38z7jsa9dmnr Bob Horowitz I rarely get to ride shotgun - and I am really not prone to drama - but when I looked at the dashboard of the electric car I felt an overwhelming urge to shout: npub1qxf4uj73el7yjjqcee6d5xfp56fl996hfahxxllh9wrvnh38z7jsa9dmnr Bob Horowitz That's Tinky Wink, teh gayTeletubby. npub1qxf4uj73el7yjjqcee6d5xfp56fl996hfahxxllh9wrvnh38z7jsa9dmnr Bob Horowitz Well it's Polaroid Week so I dragged my shitty Gen2+ out of retirement, warmed up my last and only pack of film, and made a test shot this morning. npub1qxf4uj73el7yjjqcee6d5xfp56fl996hfahxxllh9wrvnh38z7jsa9dmnr Bob Horowitz He is so considerate! The mark of a good person. npub1qxf4uj73el7yjjqcee6d5xfp56fl996hfahxxllh9wrvnh38z7jsa9dmnr Bob Horowitz This is beautiful. I have no doubt he will appreciate it. npub1qxf4uj73el7yjjqcee6d5xfp56fl996hfahxxllh9wrvnh38z7jsa9dmnr Bob Horowitz It's Caturday, Bob. Do you want me to pounce on your chest like a cat? npub1qxf4uj73el7yjjqcee6d5xfp56fl996hfahxxllh9wrvnh38z7jsa9dmnr Bob Horowitz Sadly, these are women's boots. npub1qxf4uj73el7yjjqcee6d5xfp56fl996hfahxxllh9wrvnh38z7jsa9dmnr Bob Horowitz Doc Martens. npub1qxf4uj73el7yjjqcee6d5xfp56fl996hfahxxllh9wrvnh38z7jsa9dmnr Bob Horowitz Fuck that, she said, and kept riding. npub1qxf4uj73el7yjjqcee6d5xfp56fl996hfahxxllh9wrvnh38z7jsa9dmnr Bob Horowitz Hawk Hill, in the fog. npub1qxf4uj73el7yjjqcee6d5xfp56fl996hfahxxllh9wrvnh38z7jsa9dmnr Bob Horowitz I'm very sorry 😔 This is a terrible loss for everyone who knew him. May his memory be a blessing, and may you take care in this time of grief. npub1qxf4uj73el7yjjqcee6d5xfp56fl996hfahxxllh9wrvnh38z7jsa9dmnr Bob Horowitz Uh-oh. Red shirts always die. npub1qxf4uj73el7yjjqcee6d5xfp56fl996hfahxxllh9wrvnh38z7jsa9dmnr Bob Horowitz Been busy this week but all's good here. npub1qxf4uj73el7yjjqcee6d5xfp56fl996hfahxxllh9wrvnh38z7jsa9dmnr Bob Horowitz Somewhere, outdoors. npub1qxf4uj73el7yjjqcee6d5xfp56fl996hfahxxllh9wrvnh38z7jsa9dmnr Bob Horowitz One of these days I'm going to confirm a hunch about focal distance and mirror reflections... npub1qxf4uj73el7yjjqcee6d5xfp56fl996hfahxxllh9wrvnh38z7jsa9dmnr Bob Horowitz Message received and echoed back. Have a great weekend. We are kicking back here, enjoying doing nothing but puttering and relaxing. npub1qxf4uj73el7yjjqcee6d5xfp56fl996hfahxxllh9wrvnh38z7jsa9dmnr Bob Horowitz Folsom Street, with drizzle. npub1qxf4uj73el7yjjqcee6d5xfp56fl996hfahxxllh9wrvnh38z7jsa9dmnr Bob Horowitz I am slow catching up online today so I missed your post earlier. Oof. My thoughts are with you and the big guy. Don't worry about Mastodon - you know what to do and where to focus. npub1qxf4uj73el7yjjqcee6d5xfp56fl996hfahxxllh9wrvnh38z7jsa9dmnr Bob Horowitz When you are in a hurry and don't notice your ISO is set to 5000 in broad daylight... lean into it. Burn the f*** out of the bottom and let the glare fly. npub1qxf4uj73el7yjjqcee6d5xfp56fl996hfahxxllh9wrvnh38z7jsa9dmnr Bob Horowitz Okay, I'm back with something I posted and deleted last week because the original version bugged me. This one will stick around. npub1qxf4uj73el7yjjqcee6d5xfp56fl996hfahxxllh9wrvnh38z7jsa9dmnr Bob Horowitz Teh calories? Totally worth it 👍 npub1qxf4uj73el7yjjqcee6d5xfp56fl996hfahxxllh9wrvnh38z7jsa9dmnr Bob Horowitz They always lock up the best drugs. But yes... Correct answer. npub1qxf4uj73el7yjjqcee6d5xfp56fl996hfahxxllh9wrvnh38z7jsa9dmnr Bob Horowitz My world in a snapshot. I got an oil change and an infusion of Reclast today at Kaiser. npub1qxf4uj73el7yjjqcee6d5xfp56fl996hfahxxllh9wrvnh38z7jsa9dmnr Bob Horowitz To Telescope npub1qxf4uj73el7yjjqcee6d5xfp56fl996hfahxxllh9wrvnh38z7jsa9dmnr Bob Horowitz pleasurable 🩷👍 npub1qxf4uj73el7yjjqcee6d5xfp56fl996hfahxxllh9wrvnh38z7jsa9dmnr Bob Horowitz omg I haven't heard that song in over half a century... and I never saw a video of it being performed (ok, lip-synced). Damn that's a good song and wonderfully dated video. npub1qxf4uj73el7yjjqcee6d5xfp56fl996hfahxxllh9wrvnh38z7jsa9dmnr Bob Horowitz A miniature goat to bless your feed. npub1qxf4uj73el7yjjqcee6d5xfp56fl996hfahxxllh9wrvnh38z7jsa9dmnr Bob Horowitz The City of Angels npub1qxf4uj73el7yjjqcee6d5xfp56fl996hfahxxllh9wrvnh38z7jsa9dmnr Bob Horowitz #SilentSunday #photography #NatureyCrap npub1qxf4uj73el7yjjqcee6d5xfp56fl996hfahxxllh9wrvnh38z7jsa9dmnr Bob Horowitz Well it hit 93⁰F here... a bunch higher than predicted. 83 indoors. So I am off to Best Buy because they have air conditioning and I need to replace my PC's backup drive. If only they had a swimming pool I might stay longer. npub1qxf4uj73el7yjjqcee6d5xfp56fl996hfahxxllh9wrvnh38z7jsa9dmnr Bob Horowitz Good morning. Happy to read the new antibiotics look promising! That makes the day even better. npub1qxf4uj73el7yjjqcee6d5xfp56fl996hfahxxllh9wrvnh38z7jsa9dmnr Bob Horowitz #SilentSunday #photography npub1qxf4uj73el7yjjqcee6d5xfp56fl996hfahxxllh9wrvnh38z7jsa9dmnr Bob Horowitz Oh boy, that is a tough procedure. So is the daily GERD. Hopefully, after you recover, you have better success managing it. And as for the big guy, yeah, I feel you both. Let tomorrow be better npub1qxf4uj73el7yjjqcee6d5xfp56fl996hfahxxllh9wrvnh38z7jsa9dmnr Bob Horowitz I would like to second Jeri's best wishes... and also say that was a thoughtful, interesting, honest interview. Smart, homespun, and gentle... all wrapped together. npub1qxf4uj73el7yjjqcee6d5xfp56fl996hfahxxllh9wrvnh38z7jsa9dmnr Bob Horowitz Oh this is excellent news! I'm so glad to read this! npub1qxf4uj73el7yjjqcee6d5xfp56fl996hfahxxllh9wrvnh38z7jsa9dmnr Bob Horowitz So a quick update on something I wrote about last month... npub1qxf4uj73el7yjjqcee6d5xfp56fl996hfahxxllh9wrvnh38z7jsa9dmnr Bob Horowitz #SilentSunday #photography #NatureyCrap npub1qxf4uj73el7yjjqcee6d5xfp56fl996hfahxxllh9wrvnh38z7jsa9dmnr Bob Horowitz do not give your co-workers ideas npub1qxf4uj73el7yjjqcee6d5xfp56fl996hfahxxllh9wrvnh38z7jsa9dmnr Bob Horowitz I do too. I love hanging off the sideboard. npub1qxf4uj73el7yjjqcee6d5xfp56fl996hfahxxllh9wrvnh38z7jsa9dmnr Bob Horowitz Bonus picture for today. This is the cable car barn/powerhouse... where just four 510 horsepower motors and gears pull miles of heavy cables underneath city streets, yanking 40 cable cars up and down the hills of San Francisco. npub1qxf4uj73el7yjjqcee6d5xfp56fl996hfahxxllh9wrvnh38z7jsa9dmnr Bob Horowitz #FotoVorschlag npub1qxf4uj73el7yjjqcee6d5xfp56fl996hfahxxllh9wrvnh38z7jsa9dmnr Bob Horowitz I just learned a new thing: IDDQD 👍 npub1qxf4uj73el7yjjqcee6d5xfp56fl996hfahxxllh9wrvnh38z7jsa9dmnr Bob Horowitz ... says the guy who likes to photograph airplanes from underneath ... npub1qxf4uj73el7yjjqcee6d5xfp56fl996hfahxxllh9wrvnh38z7jsa9dmnr Bob Horowitz Castro Street, October 2nd, 2011, 1:13 p.m. npub1qxf4uj73el7yjjqcee6d5xfp56fl996hfahxxllh9wrvnh38z7jsa9dmnr Bob Horowitz I'm glad you the family to pull you up. You've certainly had a lot of stress tugging in the other direction. npub1qxf4uj73el7yjjqcee6d5xfp56fl996hfahxxllh9wrvnh38z7jsa9dmnr Bob Horowitz *nods* npub1qxf4uj73el7yjjqcee6d5xfp56fl996hfahxxllh9wrvnh38z7jsa9dmnr Bob Horowitz Don't know why but I've been leaning more and more into monochrome recently. It has weight and serious feels... and it works especially well with grim subjects. I am grim. npub1qxf4uj73el7yjjqcee6d5xfp56fl996hfahxxllh9wrvnh38z7jsa9dmnr Bob Horowitz Quiet day ahead with zero plans to drive to the other side of Twin Peaks at 3:30 a.m. tonight to catch the bloody lunar eclipse because I am not crazy. The moon can do its thing without me. npub1qxf4uj73el7yjjqcee6d5xfp56fl996hfahxxllh9wrvnh38z7jsa9dmnr Bob Horowitz Well just in case, I checked. ZipRecruiter has over 60 Work From Home Grandmother Jobs in California paying $26-$72 per hour. npub1qxf4uj73el7yjjqcee6d5xfp56fl996hfahxxllh9wrvnh38z7jsa9dmnr Bob Horowitz No fears. No one is ever going to fire you for slacking off. npub1qxf4uj73el7yjjqcee6d5xfp56fl996hfahxxllh9wrvnh38z7jsa9dmnr Bob Horowitz Nicely taken 👍 npub1qxf4uj73el7yjjqcee6d5xfp56fl996hfahxxllh9wrvnh38z7jsa9dmnr Bob Horowitz It's sunny and warm right now and the forecast forecasts 74°F (23.3⁰C). npub1qxf4uj73el7yjjqcee6d5xfp56fl996hfahxxllh9wrvnh38z7jsa9dmnr Bob Horowitz *chuckles* npub1qxf4uj73el7yjjqcee6d5xfp56fl996hfahxxllh9wrvnh38z7jsa9dmnr Bob Horowitz September 29th, 2013. npub1qxf4uj73el7yjjqcee6d5xfp56fl996hfahxxllh9wrvnh38z7jsa9dmnr Bob Horowitz I wish to fish like this. npub1qxf4uj73el7yjjqcee6d5xfp56fl996hfahxxllh9wrvnh38z7jsa9dmnr Bob Horowitz This is a picture... npub1qxf4uj73el7yjjqcee6d5xfp56fl996hfahxxllh9wrvnh38z7jsa9dmnr Bob Horowitz Pier 80 npub1qxf4uj73el7yjjqcee6d5xfp56fl996hfahxxllh9wrvnh38z7jsa9dmnr Bob Horowitz I'm betting the people upstairs have PTSD and freeze up every time they hear a thump. npub1qxf4uj73el7yjjqcee6d5xfp56fl996hfahxxllh9wrvnh38z7jsa9dmnr Bob Horowitz #SilentSunday #FensterFreitag #photography npub1qxf4uj73el7yjjqcee6d5xfp56fl996hfahxxllh9wrvnh38z7jsa9dmnr Bob Horowitz *nods*
