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perldiver at 01:58am on 06/12/2009
perldiver at 01:58am on 06/12/2009It's currently 11pm here in San Fran, which means it's 2am in the time zone my body is currently running on, so I'm going to keep this short and summary-iffic. Expanded version when I get home in a few days:
- Made it here intact, trip was good.
- Car rental easy. Was clever enough to rent a Garmin GPS to make navigating the city easy. Problem: the Garmin doesn't work. It has no idea where I am, simulates driving the route without paying any attention to what I'm doing, and is utterly useless. The only way I actually made it here was by driving with my iPhone's Google Maps in one hand. Fortunately, there was no one else on the road.
- The house I'm staying in is really really nifty, and has a lot of history.
- Slept like a log. Woke up multiple times, but overcame it.
(Inner dialogue:
Body: "Hey it's 8:30am! Wake up!"
Me: "It's 5:30. Shut up and go back to sleep."
Body: "Huh? It's 8:30, I'm sure of it."
Me: "Look, we're in a different timezone. It's 3 hours earlier. Go back to sleep."
Body: "But...hang on. I get three more hours of sleep?"
Me: "Yes, but only if you shut up."
Body: "Shutting up now!"
We had this conversation two or three times, but I kept going back to sleep and woke up feeling rested and relaxed, and it was still very early.)
- My friend Rich picked me up around 10. We drove over to Dottie's True Blue cafe, where we waited in line for an hour for breakfast. Rich assured me it would be worth it--I was dubious but figure ok, I'll give it a shot. OH. MY. GOD. He was so right. Coconut white chocolate muffin, whiskey fennel sausage scramble with *delicious* homefries, jalapeno cornbread, a taste of his avocado, tomato, (something), and feta frittata, Stash tea, fresh squoze OJ. Oh. Yeah. We left the place around 12pm and I wasn't hungry again for about 7 hours.
- We then picked up our mutual friend Stef. The three of us spent the rest of the day driving around the city looking at different neighborhoods. This city is GORGEOUS (at least, large parts are--a warehouse district is a warehouse district no matter where you are). Funky, creative, decorative...I am *so* looking forward to moving here.
Finally, even though none of us were really quite hungry yet we went for dinner and then Rich dropped me off. I am now in bed typing this and about to conk out.
Tomorrow, I have a noon meetup with a bunch of tech folk from the area. This should be fun.
- Made it here intact, trip was good.
- Car rental easy. Was clever enough to rent a Garmin GPS to make navigating the city easy. Problem: the Garmin doesn't work. It has no idea where I am, simulates driving the route without paying any attention to what I'm doing, and is utterly useless. The only way I actually made it here was by driving with my iPhone's Google Maps in one hand. Fortunately, there was no one else on the road.
- The house I'm staying in is really really nifty, and has a lot of history.
- Slept like a log. Woke up multiple times, but overcame it.
(Inner dialogue:
Body: "Hey it's 8:30am! Wake up!"
Me: "It's 5:30. Shut up and go back to sleep."
Body: "Huh? It's 8:30, I'm sure of it."
Me: "Look, we're in a different timezone. It's 3 hours earlier. Go back to sleep."
Body: "But...hang on. I get three more hours of sleep?"
Me: "Yes, but only if you shut up."
Body: "Shutting up now!"
We had this conversation two or three times, but I kept going back to sleep and woke up feeling rested and relaxed, and it was still very early.)
- My friend Rich picked me up around 10. We drove over to Dottie's True Blue cafe, where we waited in line for an hour for breakfast. Rich assured me it would be worth it--I was dubious but figure ok, I'll give it a shot. OH. MY. GOD. He was so right. Coconut white chocolate muffin, whiskey fennel sausage scramble with *delicious* homefries, jalapeno cornbread, a taste of his avocado, tomato, (something), and feta frittata, Stash tea, fresh squoze OJ. Oh. Yeah. We left the place around 12pm and I wasn't hungry again for about 7 hours.
- We then picked up our mutual friend Stef. The three of us spent the rest of the day driving around the city looking at different neighborhoods. This city is GORGEOUS (at least, large parts are--a warehouse district is a warehouse district no matter where you are). Funky, creative, decorative...I am *so* looking forward to moving here.
Finally, even though none of us were really quite hungry yet we went for dinner and then Rich dropped me off. I am now in bed typing this and about to conk out.
Tomorrow, I have a noon meetup with a bunch of tech folk from the area. This should be fun.