Ten Thoughts on the Bay Area
Nov. 25th, 2022 08:40 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shannon_a1. Showers are much nicer in the Bay Area than in Hawaii, because (during the autumn and winter at least), they're the only time you'll be entirely warm all day.
2. Overheard on Strawberry Hill: "My dad and I did edibles last night, it was terrific." That was my clue I was back in the Bay Area.
3. BART is still a mess. Every other yellow train was missing when we went into SF on Wednesday. We'd noticed similar in 2021. They're also talking about cutting weekend service and dropping lines to one train an hour, which seems like such a sure way to kill the organization that it's almost Musk-ian.
4. Overheard on Telegraph Avenue: "I'm not REALLY a vegetarian, but ...", which seems pretty quintessentially Berkeley.
5. When you have Ayn Rand on the bookshelf in your Berkeley Air B&B, you're really not reading the room.
6. When you mix Ayn Rand with Michael Chabon and books on Buddhism in your Berkeley Air B&B, you probably don't read.
7. While I was putting away laundry last night, I jokingly said, "Alexa, play my album Six", which I often do while putting away laundry. It was just a joke for myself: I knew we were at an Air B&B, and thus had no Alexa. AND THEN ALEXA STARTED PLAYING SIX! There was a Dot hidden under a house plant by the front door. So the Air B&B isn't all Buddhism and destruction of the human spirit.
8. In the Trader Vic's Thanksgiving spread was a plate labeled "Tropical Fruit", but it just looked like fruit to me.
9. There were new trees along one of the stairways up on Panoramic Hill, but they were in cages. Which somehow seemed symbolic of Berkeley to me.
10. Walking down from Panoramic Hill today, I passed by the stadium and saw roads closed, police all over, and even a bomb squad. Berkeley may not care about maintaining quality of life in their city, but they keep their football games safe!
2. Overheard on Strawberry Hill: "My dad and I did edibles last night, it was terrific." That was my clue I was back in the Bay Area.
3. BART is still a mess. Every other yellow train was missing when we went into SF on Wednesday. We'd noticed similar in 2021. They're also talking about cutting weekend service and dropping lines to one train an hour, which seems like such a sure way to kill the organization that it's almost Musk-ian.
4. Overheard on Telegraph Avenue: "I'm not REALLY a vegetarian, but ...", which seems pretty quintessentially Berkeley.
5. When you have Ayn Rand on the bookshelf in your Berkeley Air B&B, you're really not reading the room.
6. When you mix Ayn Rand with Michael Chabon and books on Buddhism in your Berkeley Air B&B, you probably don't read.
7. While I was putting away laundry last night, I jokingly said, "Alexa, play my album Six", which I often do while putting away laundry. It was just a joke for myself: I knew we were at an Air B&B, and thus had no Alexa. AND THEN ALEXA STARTED PLAYING SIX! There was a Dot hidden under a house plant by the front door. So the Air B&B isn't all Buddhism and destruction of the human spirit.
8. In the Trader Vic's Thanksgiving spread was a plate labeled "Tropical Fruit", but it just looked like fruit to me.
9. There were new trees along one of the stairways up on Panoramic Hill, but they were in cages. Which somehow seemed symbolic of Berkeley to me.
10. Walking down from Panoramic Hill today, I passed by the stadium and saw roads closed, police all over, and even a bomb squad. Berkeley may not care about maintaining quality of life in their city, but they keep their football games safe!