Posted by amy on March 14th, 2011 — Posted in Mayor's Decree
Sir Edmund Hillary was the first person to ascend Mount Everest. Columbus discovered America (so we say). And Cadbury gave us the wonderful gift of British chocolate.
In the theme of great accomplishments, I’ve been tackling a few feats myself:
- Driving throughout San Francisco. With my Garmin, it’s really not that hard and it’s kind of fun going over hills that make me feel as if I’m tipping off the end of the earth.
- Multiple – OK just three – parallel parkings in spaces that seem to be mere inches longer than my car.
- Surviving the Bay area tsunamis.
- Figuring out how to run the front loader washing machine in my apartment.
- Biking the Golden Gate Bridge over into Sausalito this weekend. All in all a 10 to 11 mile trip, great views and only moderately sore in the saddle.
The biking Lombards ready to cross the Golden Gate Bridge.
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Posted by amy on March 5th, 2011 — Posted in Mayor's Decree
I don’t spend a lot of time thinking about karma but I do believe that eventually what goes around comes around. I would imagine there are special karma phala (fruits of our actions) that occur specifically here in the Bay area.
Good karma would mean:
- You find a great parking spot.
- You find a great parking spot and there’s enough room to open the door and exit the car.
- When someone mentions AT&T Park they fail to notice that you don’t know if it’s a place to walk your dog, the ‘49ers have renamed its stadium or, perhaps – maybe, San Francisco has more than one major sports team.
- The person sitting next to you on the bus appears to have bathed sometime in the last week.
- You bought gas for under $4 per gallon.
- The rain that was forecasted begins at 7:45 p.m. – just as you’re heading home after a full day of sightseeing around the city,
- Ghirardelli chocolate – need I say more?
Bad karma would mean:
- You’re run over by a cable car.
- Your Dim Sum has ‘sum-ting’ nasty in it.
- You can’t find any food that doesn’t include cilantro.
- A giant redwood tree that’s been standing for more than 100 years falls on you.
- They run out of wine the day you visit Napa Valley.
- Halfway across, you twist an ankle as you walk across the Golden Gate Bridge.
- A dragon from the Chinese New Year parade pees on you.
- You crash your car trying to reenact the car-chase scene from “Bullitt.”
- A guy a Fisherman’s Wharf comes up and offers to share his crabs. And he isn’t talking about lunch.
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