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Tried to take carytown and Greg up to Muir Woods and points north yesterday, but a horrendous 28-car pileup (due to the unexpected snow) delayed traffic so much that we gave up, after taking more than an hour to inch across the Golden Gate Bridge. Elderly women walking were passing us! So we gave up, saw the bridge overlook, came back and had a Mexican lunch with poohbearjim. Then we picked up Jack (still ailing) and went to the Kabuki Hot Springs for a soak, then out for mediocre sushi, followed by a viewing at home of the Joan Crawford vehicle Queen Bee. Today we took them out for dim sum at Ton Kiang, and now they're out seeing the town. We may, or may not, make the Lone Star beer bust, depending on when they get back from sightseeing.

I just want to get this straight to a certain person here in town: although we have shown our houseguests around some of the city, we are not in charge of them. They are here for a limited time and naturally want to maximize seeing the sights they've always wanted to see, and seeing their longstanding friends. The fact that we couldn't bend over backwards to your schedule, and that you felt you had to 'defriend' Jack and myself as a result, reflects poorly on you. I hope that if it was done in the heat of anger, you reconsider, and think long and hard about whether this anger is justified. (And if your defriending of us is not for this reason, then we're at a loss as to what we have done to offend you.)