Tuesday
Elli and I enjoyed the Labor Day weekend. We drank coffee at several places, walked around the city, sat in a lot of parks, read a lot of book pages, and enjoyed the fabulous weather. I may have even taken my camera out once or twice. It’s the weather that everyone here is paying for. It’s certainly not the dirty smelly streets… (SF is the dirtiest city I have ever been in. People litter all the time. It is very gross. The street cleaners are out every morning trying to undue the damage from the night before. It is sad that a city chooses to operate this way.
We love it here, don’t get me wrong. It is just that there will always be things that I think should be changed. Like littering and drug use. SF has a soft on crime outlook, and it doesn’t help. I’d rather they follow New York City and crack down on even the “minor things”, cleaning the city from the ground up. Maybe I can get a job with the city government and let them know how it should be. I’d be happy to consult at phone company repair rates ($630/hour. I kid you not).
That number comes from the fact that our phone system at work went out today, and calling the company that we pay $700/month to netted me an earful about how our system isn’t covered under maintenance, etc, and that they would be happy to investigate the problem for $630/hour, starting with on-phone support. I told them we paid $25,000 for the phone system and that better have bought us some fix-it time. Needless to say, that payment wasn’t going to happen. A few phone calls later learned me that someone else had our phone maintence contract. A lot of people have their hand in the nearly empty pot of our school budget. We were able to resolve the problem on the phone in about 30 minutes. I think it is time I upped my photography fees tremendously.
School (school school, not work school) starts on Thursday. I’m excited to be going back. I can’t wait to check out and use some the lenses I’ve been wanting for years.
My desktop computer is still broken (this is the longest I’ve been without my computer). Still not used to working on a laptop. The screen is soooo small. I hope I can repair it soon. I need it for school. I miss the days of driving to Microcenter and getting the help and parts I need for my Mac. Now it’s expensive taxi and BART rides to strange places in the city trying to get help and parts. It’s a crazy way to live, but I’m learning to enjoy it.
