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I use the Yelp a bit. You can see a link to my profile there on the left. It's the thing that says, "jebus". Yeah, that's the one. You can see all 132 reviews I've written there, but in short, I'd like to sum up a few of my favorites. Is this a little conceited? Sure, but here we go:       El Farlito       Nan King Road Bistro       Best of the Bay Party       San Francisco       Fenton's Creamery       Yelp       Cav Wine Bar       Bargain Bank       So, you kinda gotta look for my little icon there below the location info when you click on the links, but that's where the business is. Oh yeah, one last great one would be my tales of Ruby Skye. Join and give me some props if you'd like. You can even add me as a friend because we just can't have enough friends.

I was a proud proud East Bay resident ever since I arrived in the SF Bay Area in the fall of 1998. There were trees there! Trees! The floral attributes of Berkeley were a great transition for a rural country boy like me (not midwest rural, just the Sacramento Valley rural.) I was happy, but time wore on and I realized that the real reason I have avoided the big scary City known as San Francisco was due to the fact that it was a tad pricey at the time due to this thing some of you may have heard of called the dot-com boom. Rents had tripled in many areas and it was way beyond what a poor college kid like me could afford.       Well, the dot-com craziness died down and with it, so did the rents. The dropped off so far in fact, that after five years in Berkeley, North Oakland, and Piedmont, I was finally able to move into San Francisco proper.       So, that's where all this is starting. I'm currently a freelancer (the polite term for those of us laid off and living off contract jobs when we get them) and so I thought I'd start this up to see where it goes.