Roller Coasters

I've never like roller coasters and our roller coaster ride in the temperature department here in SF is getting a bit tiresome. Why can't we be bored to death with the same temperatures all week? Oh well, guess we would find something to complain about no matter what.

The wind has been bothersome to me also but had coffee with a friend at Blue Bottle Cafe at the SF MOMA today. We sat in a sunny corner where we were protected from the wind so it was a very pleasant afternoon.

Not sure what I will do tomorrow or will be able to do as we will be out late tonight for the coronation of Mr. & Ms. GAPA 2010 at Shangri-La.

Somebody told me today that there once was a cross-eyed teacher who could not control his pupils. Hmmmm....

Bye y'all

A pocketful of dust and one note

After an absence of one year or more, I returned to the gym this week. Am slightly sore but not as much as I expected to be. Of course, I did not try to lift or push the same weight loads as when I left but I will work up to that and hopefully beyond in the coming months.

Clipboards

I can certainly agree wholeheartedly with the letter to a local newspaper:

"Over the years I have often complained about the panhandlers and homeless intruding on my space and asking me for money, sometimes aggressively. Now I would give anything to see them instead of those clipboard-wielding touts that harass me sometimes several times throughout my walk down Fillmore Street, shoving their clipboards and their opinions at me. At least the homeless really need the money."

And this reminds me that it was so pleasant during my recent visit to Boston not to see newspapers and other trash all over the streets and not to to be panhandled at every turn. Only once in seven days was I panhandled. In SF once in 24 hours would be a welcome relief and minor miracle.

Aaron Pekin as Mayor

BE AFRAID, BE VERY AFRAID (even if only for a short time).

Shocker, more of the same, when the next batch of loons take power and implement more of the same lunacy that makes SF a laughing stock to the world, the same clowns that ushered the new set of lunatics in will authentically be puzzled as to why things remain as screwed up as they are, whats that about the definition of insanity being when one tries the same thing over and over again, yet expects a different result, sums up SF to a T.

The above comments are reader comments from SF Gate this morning and I agree 1000%.

Pathetic country that we live in...

When I get up in the morning and read stories like this "9 dead in Connecticut workplace shooting" and "Masked gunman shoots 8 at party", I just want to head for the hills for the rest of my life. When I was growing up in the forties and fifties headlines like that were rare if at all. What has happened to the USA? Of course part of the answer here is the same as in Mexico, Brazil, and other countries - DRUGS, the curse of mankind. Everyone either wants to get high or get rich quickly, or both. I am so tired of it all!

Inconsiderate 25-something neighbors...

The “kids” who live near me are hopeless. I am not even sure those roaming around here at the moment live here. Anyway, the noise has been unbearable at times and is about to push me over the edge. So, unless something changes I will HAVE to move but I can’t really afford it. That is, the higher rent, so I will have to compromise and cut way back on everything by seeking out a compatible roommate. I don’t want to do that but it may be necessary to save my sanity.