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Sneaky Galen snuck into the back porch when the wife was checking the back door before bed. He wanted to see if he could get outside. Instead he got accidentally locked in the back porch for six hours.

I walked into the kitchen this morning and heard muted frantic meowing. Eventually I looked at the back porch and saw him there. He doesn't appear to have soiled anything, but he did destroy a paper bag in rage and boredom.

I'd say he's learned his lesson, but I highly doubt it.

"Certainly, my boy. It's baseball season!"

The wife and I caught a game yesterday - the only one of the season. I bought secondhand seats in the club level, so we had a good view, uncrowded bathrooms, and were comfortably in the shade the entire time. The weather was glorious and the Giants won the game. A foul ball hit off and landed in the empty seats directly in front of us, but I could not get to the ball quite in time and the people just below got it. Ah well.

Downsides: for games we usually park near a sushi restaurant (right on the end of our permit area) and walk the mostly-flat 20 minute remainder. If we walk from home, we have to hike the huge hill. This is a good compromise. However, yesterday it was completely, utterly packed for blocks around. We ended up parking much farther out, not even in our permit area; by that point, my parking patience was more than exhausted and I was willing to chance getting a ticket. Fortunately we did not get dinged. But with the increased housing and arena in our neck of the woods we may have to shift our tactics in the future.

Also, the concessions on the club level are surprisingly limited. Plenty of bar space, so I guess we know where club-level fans spend their money.

Then we drove to the edge of Chinatown to hear a talk on the history of tamale-making in San Francisco. The talk was quite interesting; tamales were apparently the street food/bar food of choice in the late 19th and early 20th c. They were even exported to Chicago and the rest of the country!

Downsides: traffic was appalling to and from the venue. Stupid Luber amateur drivers. In a brief flash of sanity, we did not try to find street parking and used a garage 5 minutes away. Totally worth it.

Despite the various downsides, it was a very good vacation day to spend with the wife.