I don't think any of us can believe Little Michael died yesterday. Despite his personal choices, the guy did make some rocking music. As evidence, I took a screen shot of my iTunes library sorted to his music (this excluded Janet, which is another lengthy collection!). Almost 200 MB! Thanks for the music, Michael.
Onward, I had quite an action packed weekend. I spent the day Friday studying, which was not so action packed, but necessary. Then Saturday I went scouting in San Francisco for some people's upcoming visits, and it got me out walking (uphill) in new scenery and away from the gym! I got off of BART at 16th Street, in the middle of the Mission District. Below is a photo of a beautiful mission there. Missions are quite frequent in California, and I find them so beautiful. In the future, I'd like to visit them more often.
The next stop was the Castro to see 1)where it was and 2) Harvey Milk's place at 575 Castro Street. (Castro Camera) It is obviously no longer Castro Camera, but Harvey is remembered herein. I stopped in, snapped a picture, paid my respects, gave my thanks, and continued around the neighborhood. There was a show at the Castro Theatre that afternoon and the place was a buzz. I encountered a few friendly people that pointed me in the right direction to my next destination. Nice place.
And where Harvey Milk lived:
My next destination was "The Haight"...AKA the home base during "The Summer of Love" in 1967. Jefferson Airplane, Janis Joplin, and the Grateful Dead resided in the area during what history writes as quite the summer! Anyway, I don't know if they intentionally scent the air to smell like sweet, sweet marijuana, but it appeared that they did. A nice place now, mostly owing to that smell, but mostly tourist-y now. I'm pretty sure that's not what Janis, Jefferson Airplane, and the Grateful Dead had in mind...but, it is consumerism at its best.
Not bad for my little point and shoot, huh?
Building on the corner of Haight and Ashbury
The next stop was one for my cousin, Miranda. I was within a mile or so of the Painted Ladies, so I decided to go and "complete" Miranda's honeymoon photos, because we had been too late and it was too dark for her to get any good photos of them when they were out here. The Painted Ladies are a group of elaborately painted Victorian Houses in Alamo Square in SF. I thought they were the same houses as feature on 'Full House", and they are similar, but these are NOT where Danny Tanner lived. Here are some pics, be sure to notice the city's CBD in the background...they are up quite a hill!!
My next step was to get back to BART, as I was a few miles from it. So, I walked down into the CBD...through the Civic Center Area and City Hall. City Hall is very lavish!
From the outside, anyway. Didn't hang around too long here, I was chasing daylight.
On Sunday, I went to the Giants Game (interleague play, vs the Texas Rangers) with Debbie's significant other's, Ron, family. I had never been to Giants stadium, so I jumped at the opportunity. It is a beautiful stadium, it overlooks the Bay! Sometimes, if a homerun is hit hard enough, it will splash! It was a good game, the Giants won. I also got myself quite a nice sunburn, despite my frequent sunblock use.
Notice the Bay Bridge in the Background!
In other news, I had a great week and am about to start on my growing pile of homework.
I know a lot of you probably have questions Re: gastric bypass, I know I did! The most common question I've been getting is some variant of: Do what are you allowed to eat? I intially did this so my nutritionist could spy on me when I had questions, but I'm cool with it, so I will make it public. I track me food daily, mostly to keep an eye on my grams of protein (I'm supposed to be getting 80-100). So, here you go guys, have at it: http://www.livestrong.com/thedailyplate/diary/who/cnorth84/
Maybe this will help disperse some of the thoughts that I eat nothing but yogurt and babyfood. :-P
More adventures coming soon!
Cheers
