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April 30, 2010

More Inappropriate Behavior

Oh San Francisco, you never cease to shock and disgust and slightly titillate. As I was having a run the other day I decided to make it more interesting and ran up the hill to Franklin Park down on Potrero and 16th. As I rounded the chain link fence separating the playground and swings from the rest of the park I spotted an overloaded shopping cart. Near it was an homeless person bundled up and sleeping on the grass. As I mused over the homeless problem, I noticed another figure huddled in the grass a little further along. As I got closer, I realized it was two people, and as I drew level I realized that it was a girl with her shirt half off astride a guy, with a coat covering their mid-sections as they did their best to form the beast with two backs. In the bright daylight, not 50ft from a playground with kids on the swings and the seesaws.

Boy howdy, no matter how many times it happens, it never ceases to shock me. I certainly never know how to react in situations like that. I mean, what do you say? "Excuse me, Sir, Ma'am, but you can't do that." Yeah, it sounds stupid to me too. So I did all I could do which is to trot home and try to put it behind me (unsuccessfully). More tales of life in the city, I guess.

April 29, 2010

Alive 35

I turned 35 last Sunday and while I'm not one to think too much about aging or my own mortality, I certainly am surprised to be looking around with 35-year-old eyes. I had no idea they were this old until I looked at myself in the mirror after lunch. Then I saw the picture of myself and the family from 1997 that sits on my desk. I think I still look the same (without as much hair of course) but I wonder if that me from 1997 would know that I was him in 2010? I mean he had a really thin neck and his cheeks didn't look like this.

Having said that, I think I'm a lot happier now than when I was back then. I got a great girl who adores me, I have a job that doesn't entirely suck, and let's be honest, I'm sorta living here. That's pretty good, right?