I have just survived my third colonoscopy in six years. Fortunately this one was clear so the next one is not due for another five years. The procedure is simple enough but the terrible tasting medicine used in preparation is something else. In this case it was 4 liters of something called TriLyte and even with pineapple flavoring added, it became very difficult to swallow as I neared the end of the process.

Not so simple is street repairs here in San Francisco. There is no coordination between various city departments as to who will dig up what and when. Then when each project is finished they just patch over the area that was just dug up and they usually do a lousy job of that so that the patches need repairing. As it stands now, the street out front has many patches, all of which need additional patches to cope with the crumbling asphalt, etc. This city continues to have the worst streets of any city I have ever been in (London, Singapore, Shanghai, Taipei, Bangkok, Chiang Mai, and many cities in France).

As for digging up the streets, in recent years it has been the telephone company, P.G. & E. with new gas lines or electric cables, some independent company laying fibre optic cables, and now the water department putting in new water mains. When finished they just patch the one foot strip or whatever width it was when the whole street should be repaved as these patches all fall apartment within a few months.

With the Giants sinking or at least not doing too well, I am losing interest in this baseball season so with the Summer Olympics opening Friday night there may be something of interest on TV for at least the next two weeks. Actually I prefer the Winter Olympics however I do enjoy the gymnastics and the diving events. (Oh, where art thou Mark Spitz? ha ha ha) Also, the NFL season opens soon.

This building is finally getting a new door buzzer system but it is one tied to the telephone lines so now I will have to add call waiting to my telephone service to avoid having someone get a busy signal downstairs. Could this be called a de facto rent increase?