The shopping report:

After a walk with the mutt (during which she flew across the greenspace area when she saw her dog walker across the way. I let her do that, there would have been no stopping her "there's my friend, there's my friend!" ) I took off into Oakland to pick up Spazzdog.

We set out by BART into the city.

We could have taken the bikes or there's a shuttle from Civic Center but we walked from there to the Velo Swap.

The venue was more comfortable, less confusing and cleaner than the cow palace but seemed smaller probably because it is.

There were fewer whole bikes than last year, lots of frames but I'm not looking for another bike either whole or in part. There were some incredible refurbished classic bikes. And of course i forgot to bring my camera

I was looking for deals on clothes particularly the kind of shorts and gloves I like but saw nothing in that line. That's ok, I have 7 shopping months till the AIDS ride. I did *cough cough* find some things for UK Elephant.

Spazzdog says "hi", she's working hard, she looks good (her technician job at Chevron has her walking 5-7 miles a day fixing their telecomunications systems) and she's doing some incredible photography. I saw her latest works and it's more like painting than anything I've ever seen done.

We'll get together again soon, maybe breakfast at Lois the Pie Queen when Knot's in town?

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