My parking karma has been modified

I truly detest the heat. Particularly in the Beautiful City by the Bay. The noise continues. It has driven me to a point of madness and lack of clear, methodical thinking. It has caused me to have a very costly experience. My first time to have my car towed. Happened downtown last Friday. I decided to give myself a comfort treat by driving the car downtown to reach my Friday afternoon Blogger class. I remembered a great parking place on Mission Street, one block away from the SFSU campus building on Market and Fremont. My plan was to go from the classroom to the Embarcadero Cinema by car rather than Muni. The lovely space was waiting for me. I was elated at my good parking karma. I rushed out of the classroom at 4pm and walked back to Mission. No car. The red parking instruction sign was up the street. I failed to notice the restriction. They towed it after 3pm. The taxi driver who drove me eight blocks to the auto prison also took the long way around on a busy street and nicked me for $8.00. The retrieval fee was $229.25. Life for the bewildered in the big city is cruel.

Now the association of the film AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH to a costly error, will probably keep me from ever seeing the film in a theatre. The irony for me is that I carefully avoid going to see a first run movie. This year I made two exceptions. One for BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN and the other for CAPOTE.

Every Guru has a fix

"As a master I see myself with gentle loving eyes and laugh at all my over-reactions, my unreal fears and worries. To let myself see the funny side is to ease the tension."

That motto is on a card half the size of one commonly used for business. I selected it from a candy dish full of other comments that is on Jay Roller's desk. My sense of humor is probably all that is keeping me from being scooped up by the guys who arrive in a red ambulance with flashing lights. The drilling noise continues with greater intensity than the previous weeks. I'm testing myself to function in spite of the torturous sound. The simple act of choosing suitable clothing, putting on earrings or any of the other daily functions that require cognicent decisions, have become nearly impossible hurdles.

One if by land

A long tiring day

I have been diagnosed with lichen sclerosis et atrophicans ...

In a very private part of my body.

Lunch on Clement street at a Chinese restaurant is not a definite cure, but Chinese broccoli with oyster sauce and other dim sum delights gave me the courage to go shopping for other treats at Trader Joe's and pick up a couple of prescriptions at Walgreen's.

There was a great scene at the restaurant of a family seated within my view. Mother, father, two teen age daughters and one young son. I do need to write the words describing what I observed in another format and then transfer to this blog. I'm too tired at this time of day. (4:45pm)

No energy to tell that story and the huge comic opera at the Walgreen's pharmacy counter.

SONNIE.HATsml

SONNIE.HATsml, originally uploaded by crimped69.

Post this to my profile - dammit

Fury

The reason for Bill Clinton's picture on my blog is because that was the classwork completed last Friday. We learned to make the picture a clickable link to the Foundation by changing the html coding. Bill Clinton is sorely missed by me and millions of others.

My personal concerns are multiplied by the horrible drilling noise outside my bedroom and kitchen wall. I resent having to leave the space just for respite from the noise. I have to make phone calls to deal with the Caremark pharmacy and their ruling gods and AT&T to deal with the DSL service. My stomach is upset. My body is trembling.

SOS, Sonnie

Picture of Big Dog

Bill Clinton Library

People are going about their various trivial pursuits today in spite of Israel bombing Lebanon. A know a certain group of people on the internet who are speculating that the neocons will find this a convenient excuse to attack Syria and Iran.

As for me, I'm in the SFSU computer class room for my second session of Blogging for Beginners. Sonnie in the flower covered hat picture will be moved into the proper location. It's just a small matter of finding the correct html that the blogger software requires. I also installed Mozilla yesterday because that is the browser platform which interfaces correctly with Blogger. I managed to work on the blog with Safari browser on Ms. Mac, but many of the features and icons were missing.

http://www.cookwood.com/blogvqj/examples/

Blogger book's companion Web site with instructions.

STITCHES

STITCHES, originally uploaded by crimped69.

Sonnie's 1966 Art Show

Defined69

Finding something in my email to restore a sense of humor in the
current political scene, is a large reward.

Sonnie


Rahm Emanuel, D-IL, looks to save the nation $100K by doing the
"Director of Lessons Learned" job:

Mr. Speaker, yesterday the President said we continue to be wise about
how we spend the people's money.

"Then why are we paying over $100,000 for a 'White House Director of
Lessons Learned'?

"Maybe I can save the taxpayers $100,000 by running through a few of
the lessons this White House should have learned by now.

"Lesson 1: When the Army Chief of Staff and the Secretary of State say
you are going to war without enough troops, you're going to war without
enough troops.

"Lesson 2: When 8.8 billion dollars of reconstruction funding
disappears from Iraq, and 2 billion dollars disappears from Katrina
relief, it's time to demand a little accountability.

"Lesson 3: When you've 'turned the corner' in Iraq more times than
Danica Patrick at the Indy 500, it means you are going in circles.

"Lesson 4: When the national weather service tells you a category 5
hurricane is heading for New Orleans, a category 5 hurricane is heading
to New Orleans.

"I would also ask the President why we're paying for two 'Ethics
Advisors' and a 'Director of Fact Checking.'

"They must be the only people in Washington who get more vacation time
than the President.

"Maybe the White House could consolidate these positions into a
Director of Irony."

Thoreau said, "Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something."


I recently watched the movie THE POSTMAN which is based on the time Neruda lived as an exile in an Italian sea coast town.

It's the birthday of poet and politician Pablo Neruda, born in Parral, Chile (1904). He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1971. In his Nobel lecture he said, "All paths lead to the same goal: to convey to others what we are."

Neruda's comment would be an excellent comment for the banner on my blog.

Defined69

A glorious opportunity tonight. Clear sky for watching the full moon rise in the south eastern sky. I am sure she is smiling.

It fascinates me to see the moon go from a big, round pale yellow with a well defined face as long as it is low on the horizon, to a small, white object when it is higher in the night sky.

Does it have anything to do with distance?

Defined69

The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.
George Eliot (1819 - 1880)

One cannoli with a very tall thin candle. $7.50. It wasn't as good as those sold in a North Beach coffee house for $3.75 which I have always considered a prohibitive price.

The birthday dinner at Foreign Cinema restaurant last night was successful in every way. It is located on Mission Street between a shuttered 1920's movie theatre and a shoe store. A couple of aluminum swinging doors and little else to guide customers to know that there is a large space beyond a long walk way.

SFGate Blog page

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/sfgate/indexn?blogid=3

Algernon's blog address

http://algernon.blogs.friendster.com/

Getting the rhythm. It is necessary to log into the blogger web page in order to post a new blog. Scheduled events today will keep me busy. Carla and her friend Robin are staying at the Oasis Motel down Franklin street. I'll be the tour guide today and start with a visit to the opening of the new Mission Bay Library.

SAN FRANCISCO GARDEN FROG

FROG, originally uploaded by crimped69.

Frog, help me figure out how to post words to my new blog

BECKONING

BECKONING, originally uploaded by crimped69.

I like it.

Flickr

This is a test post from , a fancy photo sharing thing.

With Nick Maffei as my guide, I'm ready to take a step into my eighty first birthday by creating a blog.

Now back to editing. I would like to change the color of the type.

Very good, Sonnie

The word master freezes at the keyboard when confronted with a blank screen. Talk about your San Francisco experience. Favorite places to get a cup of coffee in the afternoon.