What the __________?

Either it is this city or my age or this neighborhood but things seem like they move too fast here.  I am worried that one day I am going to be witness to a horrendous crash at some intersection near me as motorists drive too fast on city streets.  As a pedestrian I was almost hit by a Lorrie's Airport Shuttle Van recently that was coming up Leavenworth too fast.  Fortunately I was able to jump out of the way and fortunately he stopped but unfortunately the driver was an asshole who just grinned at me as if it was a big game.  He offered no words of apology or regret of anything.  Now I wish I had had the foresight to take down the van number and report him. 

And that is the way it is here in San Francisco...everyone does their own thing and to hell with anyone else.
Sometimes I wished I lived somewhere else but it is a little easier dealing with the weather here (no extremes of heat or cold) but the damn hills are wearing me down physically, that and the incessant fog and wind.

Even this apartment building is too much at times.  I realize that the poor construction ("paper thin floors and walls") permits sounds to leak into adjacent units (even adjacent buildings) but is there any reason why it can be so quiet up until about 10 or 11 PM when  bada-boom, bada-boom starts which makes it difficult to sleep.  What's with people these days?  One of the most restful nights I have spent recently was in a small village Northern Thailand where all I could hear were the crickets.  Oh, if only that were the case here but then I grew up in an apartment house near Boston in which one could not hear their neighbors.  Too bad they don't build them like that anymore and too bad people don't respect their neighbors anymore.  As for music, well, those were the days of Bing Crosby, Perry Como, Vaughn Monroe, etc. so there were no loud crashing sounds emanating from stereo systems.  In fact, those things did not exist either.

Am I living in the past?  Well no but it was a damn sight easier to get along with people then and I have many fond memories of that era.

Would I like to return to the Boston area?  Yes and no.  Yes if only to experience the seasons once again and warm weather in July and August when it supposed to be warm.  No because I no longer know anyone there and family, such as it was, has either passed away or moved and I was never close to them anyway.

The logistics of moving are almost insurmountable now.  Too much stuff to move for one thing. 

Well, Scotty, beam me up or over or wherever including this apartment and everything in it.  Or, maybe I should do like my mother and step-father used to do.  Just move and sell the furniture and buy new stuff at my destination.  That would simplify some things.

On another matter, the Supreme Court did the right thing this week by upholding the current health care law but I fear that the Supreme Jerk of the House of Representatives, John Boehner, will try everything in his power to rescind the law.  And why should he care? As an elected member of Congress he has a great salary and great health care coverage so he apparently has no problem saying: "Let them eat cake".   He has already said publicly, "Let them die".  WHAT A COMPLETE ASSHOLE!