Tuesday, July 24, 2012

Paperwork over load

Weren't computers supposed to help eliminate a lot of paperwork?  Well, I suppose it would be fine if I did not get behind in processing F/S but as it stands now I might burn out the motor on my shredder with all the paperwork that I need to run through it.  Before I retired it was simple.  If I got behind I could load up my briefcase as I was heading into the office and dump things into the secure shredder bin in the office.  That worked out fine but since retiring I have gotten lazy and that causes all sorts of problems here at home.  Grrrrr.....

Saturday, July 14, 2012

Beautiful Saturday

Not especially warm (62°) at 1 PM but very pleasant AND there is no cold wind blowing in from the ocean.  (Well, I probably jinxed us with that statement.)

Only 13 days until the opening of the Summer Olympics in London.
Les Miz at the Orpheum Theater in August.
Only 178 days until my next trip to Thailand.

In the meantime there will be two days in Sin City next week.  Wheeeee....
This is primarily to see Ka' at the MGM Grand but I will have lots of time to wander about
and see other things, do other things.

So happy to have cleared out most of the Milk Weeds cluttering things out back. Still have a few unidentified weeds and hope that the Weed-B-Gone spray will kill those off. Those huge Milk Weeds were something else however.  They were almost like something out of a sci-fi movie as they took over the back deck.


Tuesday, July 10, 2012

Another restaurant?

Well, the trend continues in saturating this city of San Francisco with as many of the trendy places that you can.  The latest is yet another La Boulange, the not so French restaurant which has just opened its latest iteration under the Emporium Dome at Westfield of all places.  That used to be a nice place stop and relax while shopping or before going to movie upstairs or whatever.  But no, we now have the umpteenth Boulange restaurant in the city.  Did we really need another one??  What are they trying to do?  Outdo McDonalds in numbers?   Bleaaaaah......

Oh my aching back...

Spent two hours cutting up some variety of milkweed which had overtaken the back of my unit and threatened to snake itself over to and in the door. Still a little more work to be done but at least I got the bulk of it out of the way...FINALLY! The old Cala Foods site has really become a beehive of activity this week. On the street level parking side they have removed some windows. In the area of the old circular ramp on the California Street side they have poured some concrete around what I thought was going to be an elevator shaft. Now I don't know what that is going to be. On the Californian Street side they dug rather big hole in the sidewalk and placed something in it...something to hold electrical equipment? And inside the lower level they have reinforced the main floor with at least one I-beam plus other metal parts. Can't wait for Trader Joe's and CVS Pharmacy to open there but I have no idea when that will be.