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irrelevant historical markers
OK, there are some historical markers that are cool, like the one that shows the sunken and abandoned ships at Embarcadero and Francisco, I believe. Then there are ridiculously lame ones like the one pointing out the original owners of a business building that still looks boring and businessy. I mean, do we really care…
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nob hill/ russian hill
Walked from Pine & Polk to the hood last night. Heard sea lions and the fog horn! I can hear the fog horn most mornings. Uneventful walk this morning… took 17 minutes to get from home to the start of financial district. Good to know in general. Very steep streets near Taylor/Jones area.
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donut shop
OK so the donut shop seems to attract the crazies, or at least that was the Martin Luther King Day special. Maybe it’s not the cool 10-types-of-coffee hangout that I thought it was. I checked, and it does have that many coffees available. The folks on the street this morning: every outside table was taken…
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bright shining silver light
The sun shines on the cable car rails, and it’s this super bright winter light, it’s kind of amazing. Walking up the hill to Mason, where the cable car swerves off Columbus and up the hill, it’s like ribbons lying on the pavement, shining. I really appreciated the walk this morning because I had one…
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heat lamps at bus stop
It’s a chilling 48 degrees. The coastal fog (I typed fag on accident, which is kind of funny) warmed things up from the bright glare we had yesterday. I’m starting on a new project: write about my walk every day on banane_blog.blogspot.com. It’s like mom’s ocean walk but in the city, going through an italo-chinese…
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moondance
OK in a cosmic way, at 9am this morning I woke up on the dot. It’s the time in the midwest when the memorial started. My neighbor was playing moondance by Van Morrison, and my sister realized her snake was lost at the museum where she works (snake’s name is Rosy). Great lyrics from Moondance:…
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3 minutes late. Can I get my 3 minutes back?
Yeah it was awful yesterday. Got up, thought I was pretty organized, got in car, it was raining horribly. Took off towards the airport, horrible condiitions, ended up going about 30mph on 280, no less. Decided on short term since I was running late, parked a bit farther away than ideal (bad signs), then walked…
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tsunami SF style
Well we had a downpour, but when I started walking it was only little drizzles. Neighbor at work says that Embarcadero is flooded. Bit of gladness I decided not to walk that way this morning! Italian pottery seemed kind of odd and tacky this morning, bright, yes, but tacky. I made a point to check…
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uneventful new years
Unless you count two bizarre deaths in my new neighborhood – northerman’s barf, or, the boundary between Fisherman’s Wharf and North Beach. A high school kid gets ina fight outside of Denny’s and it ends up in death (a knife was involved). Instigated by being called the N-word. Then a girl leans against a roof…
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alzheimers….
Last night saw Closer – great movie – but on the way there, in the parking lot, with the ticket, sitting down, finding candy, etc. I felt like I had some form of Alzheimers. I couldn’t read the ticket right to find out the auditorium number, I put my candy bar in my purse but…