email doppelgangers

i get emails for other "bstaffords" on my gmail account on a fairly regular basis.  there's a bev out there, i think.  and a brian.  i get a lot of emails for brian. he gets invited to a lot of great parties in san francisco.  if i lived there, i would totally show up to some of them.  

and today, i "met" him. this morning, he sent his itinerary for a flight from london to dublin to "his own" address.  i emailed him back and let him know that, as much as i'd love a trip to ireland, i doubted i could pass for him.  he wrote back to say thanks and to say he was glad to know who was first in with the bstafford gmail address.

it's funny to finally have contact with this person i get mistaken email for all the time. i don't know him at all--but i kind of know a fair bit about his life.  and, i'm kinda proud to have been first in line for that gmail address.  hehe.

do you have an email doppelganger?  have you met him/her?

calibraskan

"calibraskan."  that's what i've decided i am.  and i think the events of the past week prove it.

saturday, october 3, i was in san francisco with my brother and sister-in-law at the hardly strictly bluegrass festival in golden gate park.  it felt like home.  which, technically, it kind of was for a lot of my life.  growing up an hour south of san francisco, we went into the city a fair bit.  when i stepped off the plane and looked at the hills, the traffic, the trees...i knew that this place will always be a pretty big part of me.  here are some highlights:

you can spot gillian welch (with david rawlings) being her amazing self, the golden gate bridge, ralph stanley charming the crowd, and old crow medicine show as viewed from our spot in the woods.  aaaaaaah.  sigh of satisfaction and joy.

fast forward one week to saturday, october 10.  omaha, nebraska.  outside, it looks like this:

yep.  snow.  4-5 inches of it.  and my calibraskan self actually enjoyed it.  and went to the last farmer's market of the season in it.  without gloves.  without proper shoes.  and had a great time.

needless to say, it's been a good week.  plus, all kinds of fun things happened in the middle of the week.  i'm exhausted, but i'd do a week like that again any old time.