SF Recap V: Who thought it would go on for this many posts?

Some last shots of the trip can be found here, including this one:

Yes, I had to get one last photo in here of ole Jumbo. This time with his Mom.

SF Recap IV: Art- and animal-related.

Part of the SF mission (no, not that mission, my own personal mission, i.e., my reason for being there) was to deliver paintings. Behold: wee, sweet baby puppy (x2):Both paintings oil on canvas, 2008, by Diane Feissel.

SF Recap III: House Version.

Ok. I'm a little bit lazy... so instead of uploading every single picture I took of the oh-so-lovely Victorians while in San Francisco, I'm just going to link to the album I already created on Facebook. So, click here for more of this:

A brief non sequitur, Bert & Ernie-related.

Somehow I found this online recently. I can't help but think that it's no coincidence the author uploaded this video to YouTube on June 28, my birthday... it was like a little present, a little nugget of love waiting out there for me on the Internets. Enjoy.

SF Recap II: Animal Version.

Here's a little photographic recap of the animals we encountered in our trip to San Francisco:

Here, of course, is Jumbo:

Tosh!

Dooley Dawg.

Random Chow on Stanyan:

Olio!

Random dawg on Cole Street:

Koi in the Japanese tea garden, Golden Gate Park:

Muttprints on Ocean Beach:

Last but not least, the painting I did of Danny the Dog:

Danny, oil on panel, 14"x11", 2008, by Diane Feissel

Tomorrow: SF Recap III: Cool buildings.

Trip recap, part I of many.

OK. So. The trip to California? Awesome. Great. Super. I can confirm that San Francisco – perhaps any city, really – looks much better with some distance, and once you are not getting caught up in the day-to-day struggle of being there and making a living. Of course, being a tourist – on vacation and worry-free – is pretty much the best way to see any place. Ah, but the pastel Victorians! All decorated like wedding cakes! Ah! So lovely!And the weather! The cold! The blissful, blissful cold! Especially down at the ocean! I love wearing a sweater and corduroys in the summertime. It decidedly beats sweating 24/7:I could go on, and on. And I probably will, in a future post. But for now here's one last shot of our new nephew getting a back massage, courtesy of Uncle John:

Rant.

Two things that suck:

TTA (or "Triangle Transit Authority"). Bus 23 minutes late. Not unusual. Come on, guys. When you're that late, why bother having a schedule? Jesus Frickin' Christ. And nice of you to charge $2 for the pleasure of waiting in 95 degree weather for your chronically late buses. Nice job. Keep up the good work.

Bank of America. Big, honking megaloconglomorate of a bank can't even get its sh*t together to have a database big enough for all of its customers; apparently accounts opened in California are on a different database and thus said Bank tends to treat its CA-account-owning customers in a ridiculous fashion, as if both arms of the same bank can't communicate with one another. If you call yourself Bank of AMERICA, my guess is that you should configure yourselves to serve residents of the WHOLE ENTIRE COUNTRY in the same way, not to mention since people in AMERICA tend to move frequently and hence might have the need to easily and without 18 kinds of idiocy access their own accounts, which they opened in California, which last time I checked is still part of AMERICA.

Ridiculous.

Rant over. Good night.