monday, late afternoon, a corner in downtown San Francisco

I had just left my class for the day. About 3pm, or so. Closer to 315, really. I wanted to go see the flagship Apple store, so I did. Only about a 10 minute walk up Market and there it was. Terribly unimpressive. I'm not sure what I wanted to see, but this store looks just like the Soho store, but not as nice.
Maybe you know that that's the deal, but I had no idea,
and was a little disappointed.

They also didn't have the new MacBook Pro, which was lame.

I called my mom who had spent some time out here in the distant past, and talked about that and different places around the city. That was neat.
I spent a good while calling different people that I knew, trying to find out if there was anyone I knew, even by a degree or two, who lives here, maybe to hang out a bit or whatever. I remembered that my cousin Sebastian lives here, and gave him a call left a message.
Meanwhile, I'd been walking down Kearny towards the water - maybe west? Up a huge hill, which I can't imagine having to go up on a regular basis. I saw a cable car go by and asked someone how you get on and all. I found where to get the one that went straight down this big hill to Fishermen's (man's) Wharf and after a short wait, got on.

Wow.
Hanging off the side of a trolley car that looks like it's from the 1800's, being driven by this guy pulling on huge levers that do I-don't-know-what. I will be finding out, cause I plan on looking it up. They do some cable grabbing, I know, but that's all I know.

Got off at the wharf, lots of tourists, it being President's Day, so it was crowded. Lots of seafood places, crappy stores, etc.
Looking out accross the bay is really beautiful. There's these mountains that are just incredible, and Alcatraz is right in the middle of the water. Old brick buildings on a hill surrounded by high cliffs down to the water.

Walked down along the water, saw the sea lions on pier 39. They're pretty cool.

Jumped on a trolley (not a cable car, a different thing) and took it down to Embarcadero. That's another thing about SF that I like - the names of places and streets.
Spent the next hour and a half or so walking down Mission St all the way back up to 21 and Mission. Interesting walk, I guess. It took longer than I thought it would.

Met up with Dara, and that was fun, seeing her here.
Went back to Jonas', chilled, and went to bed.

stay tuned.