Roooooooaaaarrrrrr!

I just wanted to pop in and say, the $63 ticket I got today for parking on the wrong side of the street around the corner from SadieDey's play-cafe in downtown Oakland on this second Monday of the month between 9a-12n was so totally worth it.

Oh, sure, I would've parked someplace else if I'd actually read the sign. But at the moment we were pulling up, I happened to be trying really hard to give a cogent, truthful and illuminating (but brief) answer to Django's burning question: "Hey, Mom. Why are the sun & stars on fire?"

Having a precocious 2.5 year old is seriously distracting. Doesn't make for a very good protest to a street-cleaning citation, but it's very true.