fog fog fog

fort point ggb, originally uploaded by judywatt.

This is not today, but the fog is back like this, yay! Looks like the week ahead will be more normal, like 60ish on the coast. So I will be a lot happier of a camper. :)

Joe had to go to his office this morning to WORK some more on something he needs to have done by Tuesday and never has enough time ALONE at work to concentrate on his actual WORK PRODUCT.

Anyway I hope he can leave there by noonish and then we can do something fun, or of not, at least he can relax and read the NYT for hours, which he loves to do on Sunday.

I think today might be the Gay Parade, but I have avoided that like the plague ever since moving out of the Castro District 20 years ago.  It used to be fun in the olden days, but it got too big.   Much like Halloween.

I noticed now they actually charge like $35 admission to the Civic Center party where the parade ends up - probably to keep the riffraff out? 

Too bad they don't charge maybe $100 instead for every out of towner who attends, and let locals in for free - that would make more sense and they would make more money off it too, I imagine, since I would bet it's more than half tourists that attend.  Make people show their ID and if they have a San Francisco address, free, but if not, charge them at least $100.

Oh well, none of my business really - I just avoid the whole thing.

Did I mention there is FOG?   Which probably makes the gay paraders unhappy, but it makes ME very happy today, and it is, after all, all about ME ME ME. ;-)

 CORRECTION - Looks like the parade is NEXT Sunday.  Oh joy.  That is Joe's birthday and a friend is coming down from Sacto and we are going to the Frida exhibit downtown.  Will all the parking garages be full by six a.m. pray tell?  Probably.  We may have to take a cab downtown instead (or heaven forbid, MUNI).

F-ing gay parade.  Why don't they just have it somewhere out in the 'burbs these years, since that's where most of the watchers come from now anyway?  Like, they could have it in bloody SAN JOSE, which has way more people than SF anyway.    We are a small town.

Yes, I am still cranky.  Looks like I will be for another week at least, with all this gay tourism crap going on in addition to the regular tourism overload in the summer.

The smart tourists come in the fall and winter and spring.  Summer is full of the not so brilliant.

 

 

 

life for sale

OK, so this expat Brit down under wants to auction off his whole life...  his house, his car, his toys, but also his job lugging rugs around, which sounds crappy, and his friends, who can't spell.  They do not want to "loose" him. 

He says the weather there is perfect - HOT all summer, he says.  Whoopdeedoo.

The house looks like some kind of hideous suburban tract house and he says it has a METAL ROOF.  Not appealing.  Yet the bids are there. 

I can kinda see why his wife left him and he's probably broke and so wants to sell everything and leave the country, apparently?

I wish him all the luck in the world - I just hope he isn't planning to move to SF.  This place is already crawling with expat Brits and every other kind of expat, all looking for some kind of new life.

 But as the old saying goes, wherever you go, there you are.

Link via normaltrouble If you Google "Ian Usher" you will see lots of news stories about this.  His ex-wife thinks he's mental.  He may well be, but then so might she.  I just wonder how much he'll really net after he pays off the mortgage and whatever other debts he probably has.