Theatre play "the Lion King" has always charged children ADULT PRICES !!

So wrong.

$4.99 at Rite Aid and $3.28 at Lowe's for WINDEX MULTISURFACE DISINFECTANT 23oz spray bottle.

Our Home Depot doesn't stock it.
A huge variety, just not that.
Go to LOWE'S.
;)

Professional Bus Co.,sf: usually very late for pickup

Owner won't pay drivers for sufficient travel time. Big problem.

Bonjour Bus Company,sf, Beware

Terrible reputation.

San Jose should have forced SJ WATERCO to bed and bury the new water mains in SAND. PG&E does;worked their gas crew 4 Summers of college.

Water mains will last longer.
And sand quarries are so close in Santa Cruz mountains.

WILLOW GLEN , October 2016, front lawn RESOD, what i learned.

My family moved into the very Southern most tract near Schallenberger in 1953.
We are 5th gen Californians.
Both my parents were famous girl and boy scout troop leaders.
My Mom has been President of the PTA so many times, also all the other associations, like the expired SJSC Faculty Wives and Investment Club getting on national tv.
Have you taught 40 years and given SJSU a $25,000 check, for them to loose , for weeks,,, and not 'thank you' for ?
Lincoln Glen would not have been such a quality neighborhood without good neighbors like the Demmies and the Wellers.
San Jose does not do enough to recognize these unpaid neighborhood leaders. The person history of sj.
That's the forward.

Our mow&blow guy, has about 40 contracts all over WG so you know who i am talking about, told Mom last Winter to turn off all her watering, no timed sprinklers, no hand watering. She did.

In one year we lost 5 trees including a gorgeous full maple tree and the front lawn.  Mom is very trusting and never speaks ill of anyone, rare eh. So she took forever to fire this mow&blow guy.  Damage done.

Mom hired a lawn contractor from WGbackfence.
Warning!!
She paid and then just let the 2 Mexican laborers work for a couple weeks, totally unsupervised.
Fortunately my boss in SF gave the small company the week off, so i drove down and 'watched' all day for 4 days.  We had had another bad experience from a landscape contractor in WG who never visited the work site and the many Mexican laborers didn't even use a level to level the flagstone the birdbath is on in the backyard !!

First they chopped up the ugly remains of the front lawn. Then dug up the ends of the old black pipe sprinklers, intending to put in a new full network of plastic white pipe out front.  I asked if they were going to dig out the shallow old black plastic pipe disconnected. "No."  Ok, i will do it. 
 "No, we will do it, if you want."

So glitch #1, they planned on leaving all that old unused water pipe in the shallow dirt, like a garbage dump.  Interferes with future digging and planting. Sloppy.

There were all these small and large,2 my arm size, roots in the parking strip. I spent an entire day bent over and digging up, axing, and pulling roots out of the parking strip. Very hard work.

Then they got out the medium size rototiller.  The hard dry, sticky when wet Silicon Valley clay soil is infamous for letting rain water run off instead of soak in.  I asked if they planned on spreading any fertilizer or brown gypsum from Pacific Turf near Fry's. "No to fertilizer or soil amendments."  So i drove over west to Campbell and bought 6 bags of the professional gypsum, $8 for 50# of the smooth tiny pellets that a hand spreader(they have a great red box one)disperses.  Forget about white gypsum as it will take forever to dissolve.  I also let them use my full bag of balanced with iron lawn fertilizer, bought seasonally at Pacific Turf.  They only used half of 50# on the entire front lawn. I used the red box spreader to spread the 6 bags of brown tiny pellet gypsum, great gardening find.  I did it, not them.

I noticed they were very sloppy.
They left wire flags and bits of white plastic pipe and 3"nails and 3"screws all over the compacted dirt.  So i went around on my hands and knees and tried to pick it , the dangerous litter and trash, all up.

They would show up and leave without any notice.  So obviously they were doing multiple jobs at the same time in WG.  I never saw the white guy owner out here once.  And my dear Mom and sisters never looked or supervised for even an hour.  Not once.  Maybe i should hire out at a laborer supervisor; You have some trades stranger visit your Home, outside or inside, and i can watch them EVERY MINUTE. No trades people should be trusted , especially rug cleaners!!
Fair warning.

The sod looked dark green and long.
But local mow&blow guys told me "The best sod comes from Sacramento or Stockton.  That Morgan Hill stuff is cheaper and closer. But only 90min to Stockton or Sac.."
Oops, Mom got the Morgan Hill sod.

Our sprinkler timer controller was turned off, so i watered by hand with a wide fine spray fitting lightly morning and night to make sure the sod rooted.
And i still picked up litter from the job, like 3 long screws !!

I phoned the owner at his shop and asked a routine question.  "Oh, you are the complainer."
So i gave him a 'one star' on Google Map.

I will say it again, never ever trust any trades person inside your Home, or even on your property. All must be supervised to protect your assets and liability.  We had one guy show up to botch "gluing the kitchen floor linoleum down", with a metal strip eyesore.  He found the 12ft ladder out and up on the front lawn as i had been pruning.  So he climbs to the very top step, verboten on ladder label, and says "See me, if i fall from here i can sue you !"  Let's just say this WG handyman was the worst ever seen. I told him to stop and come down and he laughed.  There are a lot of scary people out there.

Mom paid ,probably i guess, over $4k.
I worked all day, 4 days, for free.

REI and REI GARAGE do not keep your picks in "CART" for more than a day. Unlike Amazon. Yes, i called to complain. "That's the way it is." Beware.

Lots of sales going on.
And lots of looking.
Just don't loose your 'treasures' by trusting a "CART".
Enjoy the hunt !!

On REI and REI GARAGE ,the "CART" is just temporary and not even yours for a day !! Beware, unlike on Amazon.

I learned the hard way on ".com Monday."

The 2 metal jacketed water bottles, a light blue one and a rich red one, that I put in MY "CART" this morning on ".com Monday", we're gone before dinner !!
The product was no longer on REI GARAGE even, so that popular.
Still I placed a hold by using the "CART".

Bummer.

Mr. Trump ,first Presidential Order must be a ban on all just cause less EVICTIONS. Even the police don't have this abusive power, yet landlords think they are Medieval !!

This is too much.

Crimping or Shanghai-ing was allowed as a shipping business abuse until the Seamans Act of 1915 !! Some men among millions were ship held captive workers for up to 6 years, legally !!  This is too much.

Business MUST be properly regulated or they will enslave us.

Do you remember the 1995-2000  ".com boom" when famous economists, like the tragic Greenspan, told us it was "new rules and a new economy, no need for profit in any .com company, just invest invest invest !!"

Something like $6T lost.
I was driving limo in SF Soma and saw the "party" going on.  These .com companies would go to Napa on work days and Cabo on long weekends. Beautiful young college grads were everywhere in Soma , few old plain or ugly people. Then the sudden crash. And foolish investors lost over $6T.
How could so many economists be so wrong !?  How could the feds not stop this ? Will we ever learn from our mistakes ?

PG&E's big underground gas line exploded killing 8 people and blowing up 38 house-suburban homes in San Bruno, Ca., near to SF.  The state finally did a pittance fine and the company just raised their prices, twice, so the company's customers paid the fine, plus !  And Sacramento state Capitol is fine with not one Mgr going to jail for even the weekend.
KILLED 8 people. Customers.

Right now we are watching the bankers "free trade" move factories and jobs away, lowering the value of our work, and with an open southern border that has thousands and millions coming here illegally to have lots of children ,illegally. The 14th has been so twisted from slavery and slaves. Violent gangs control for decades large portions of LA and now Salinas Fresno Modesto and San Jose.  Is Los Altos and Atherton next ?

Remember the recession of just recently 2008 when many banks hired thousands to forge mortgages ?  So many people lost there houses and homes.  Especially hard hit was Stockton, a once better than average Central Valley city.  How could the feds let this happen ?

No one is talking nationwide but for years during Obama rule banks have been allow to steal almost all interest on savings accounts !! Last year I got .54 cents bank interest on $25,000 in a savings account !!  Banks are still stealing, from all of US and for years !!  Why ??

The Guru from Omaha says 2017 will be a "debt crisis" worldwide, with Japan crashing and the EU too.

What are you going to do, Mr. Trump ?

Brad, Macy's Day Parade, 90th was WONDERFUL, thank you so much !!

Could we/you let announcers kids sneak on camera at closing, and surprise nbc3 ?
That would be more fun !!

Next year maybe.

Thank you Macy's and all Participants !!
Wonderful to see you all perform so well !!
Guess you had to practice.
(droll humor by old scruffy morn guy)

Oi!,Seattle,Portland,Washington and Oregon: GROW UP. "Shanghai-ing" white slavery as a shipping industry legal practice was finally outlawed in the US in the, Gosh, 1900s !!

Allow rent control.
People are not livestock.
The horrible "Wild West" is DEAD.
Get Better, not Brutal.
And finally try to GROW UP !!
Geez.

Yes, we're are going to shame , ridicule, and publicly laugh at you ,,, until you pursue being more Civilized.
Such a beautiful place and so many stubborn dumb self-defeating regressive ignorant cruel NW ideas and practices.

Not anywhere Near perfect.
G-R-O-W   U-P

What past century are you-all collectively stuck in !?
Referring to constantly uprooting the socially weakest , the low income workers as "moving tenants frequently as to the (landlord only) benefit of tennant mobility" (read Surprise Evictions, and to 70 and 80yr old widows on the sidewalk !!)
SHAME ON YOU, across the border.

It is un-Christian.
And you sense that.
But you keep on over-profiting and evictions abusing tiny minority of landlords!

We have an urgent social crisis going on, right now.
Landlords in the last 5-10 years have been committing highway robbery.
Now sellout politicians being pro-landlord because of campaign contributions and the landlords only putting up pro-landlord city councils like burlingame, it's no wonder the gullible voters turned down rent control in San Mateo and Bgame. I have never seen such a biased "legislative analysis " flyer, but then $Billions in excessive profit are involved. So constantly lied to,just for one biz, realtors.

Do you understand "community"?
Do you really want your children accepting poor sick hungry and homeless people living on the sidewalk ??  And the disease risk to every one of you just increased !!

We progressives will not let you careless, inhuman, lazy "traditionalist" rest.
Even if we have to lob e-mud ,forever, across your silly , ticket every southern state driver border.
Payback, Oregon and Washington.
It's a bitch.

Sembeam electric blankets: beware. My 4 all died just after 5yr warranty.

Gentle use.
Never wash.

"NBC investigates" ,so they say. But voice mailbox is usually full. And they don't reply.

Sorta false advertising.

And "Mr. Road show" doesn't reply; get a secretary!!

I was the First Frisco beer truck driver to wear shorts making Miller beer truck deliveries.

Made a lot of bar friends delivering in the Castro with my shorts, probably navy blue Patagonia stand up shorts with the great big back velcro pockets.

I would show up to work in the "uniform" of long pants.
Drive my loaded truck out of the China Basin big box warehouse, just a short walk from the Peninsula's CalTrain station I used daily.
Then pull over somewhere and change in the high cab from pants to shorts.

The company got so many compliments on my great calves, I never had to ask permission or get in trouble for being "out of uniform."
Teamsters-bums job, but 500 cases/day Great Exercise with a hand truck. (Ran over 2.)(FH stole one.)

3-10 kegs and a big black bumper cushion to drop then on.
I so miss the 2 famous Irish bars past Pill Hill on Geary,,, and all the fun people at Castro Safeway.
So it's "dg" for Darn Good wishing all my beer truck delivery friends the Happiest and Best Holiday Season ever !!

It may be our global warming last.

Who is the Best limo driver in Frisco ,,, and NYC ?

That would be me, "dg" for Darn Good, according to Mrs. Julie, the publisher of Mademoiselle magazine.
And yes, I have it in writing.

Drove The john Doerr for about 2yrs.
Oi vey.

Drove Harley Brokins Private Car Service for about 2yrs, personal check, no payroll taxes, no PUC, no sfo sticker. How did he get away with it?

Thank you, Mrs. Julie !!
Happy Holidays

Bye, Bill.

Gosh.

What was it like to ride the Lark train in the 60s ?

It was Wonderful.
Gleaming ribbed stainless steel sides.
Spotless windows.
Professional black crew of conductors and cooks.(just like Navy ship galleys.)
The coolest train cabins with fold down wall beds.
And high tech ,stainless clean tiny fun bathrooms.
Wonderful meals for 2 unaccompanied children in fine formal dining cars.
Wonderful food.
Sleeping on very smooth tracks all the way down the Coast, from sj(sf) to LA and Grandparents for a few weeks every summer. Sooo much better than driving, and I'm a guy.
We could electrify the old dirty diesel electric train engines and re-celebrate one of the most enjoyable transport trains ,hauling people and not just freight, on a spectacular coast route. Tell me people would not pay lots for that experience again ! Freight trains only on that glorious route is a Sin. Even take the passenger train N. to Portland and Seattle. Electric cars and charge stations are wayway too expensive. And not nearly as much fun! A new Mazda3 is going to cost me over $30k; each one of us in flawed, unbalanced expensive front engine FWD cars!??
I have a dream.

What the he'll are we doing traffic jamming up and down 5 and 101 ? Or even big cramped commercial jet flying that route? The Stews are not that cute anymore. Compare it to the cost of 5 from San Diego to Seattle.  Will we even get silk smooth highways like the Germans and 70s San Diegans again ? Brainiacs can solve this unsexy train crash problem and make it very much safer.

It might be Global warming too late, for all of us.
Can't even put coal power plant cleaners on, just yammer for decades in Congress about it.
It might be Global warming too late.
For all of us.
Iron algae farm the Galapago's ocean is just idle scientist talk in a crisis.

And I would really love to ride the Daylight and Lark trains again.
You would too.
I have a dream.

The 3 worst companies I had ever signed up for:

1,Sprint.
After 2 years and a totally paid off contract, Sprint kept billing me.  And threatening me for months. And billing me. Beware.

2, Comcast ,aka Xfinity.
I paid in full the current months outrageous  $80/mo bill and cancelled.  Comcast kept billing me, phoning me, writing me, threatening me.  Not nice, muchaco. Beware.

3, the Navy.
Those childish enlisted uniform photos of me in some dive PV bar in that clown suit are never going away!
Or the snaps in that great Vancouver strip bar my x-wife found;"You wore THAT outside !?" Or that Long Beach bar, the Frisco bar pics, and the Subic enlisted club bar selfie. The Royal pink Hawaiian bar polaroid and my laugh a lot, couldn't scare a judge on "Runway". The laughingest of uniforms worldwide.

So imaginary son, you can join the Coast Guard.
Or you can join the Air Force.
But family embarrassment eternal, you may not join the enlisted U.S. Navy.
Navy Officer puke,ok.
(trust me, ltjg.officers get no respect up the chain of command.)

"I have a dream":smart fun happy employed hot women will still admire old-enuf men with grey hair. And somehow extremely unlikely, Mr. Trump will fore-solve the World's "2017 debt crisis", become more famous, and liked.

I said it was a dream.

Social Security should be $50k,minimum. Public school teachers starting salary needs to be $50k minimum.

Medical care?
OK, so Canada has one idea better than US, single payer.

Next time, if we All live that long, can we please get a remarkable hardworking new CA. Governor with brains, balls and a heart ?

Tourism is huge easy money.
So stop wasting tax and bond dollars on ugly,ag-polluted Central Valley High Speed Train and bring the coastal Daylight and Lark trains back. Even if you have to eminent domain those freight railroad lines that the USGovt way way way overpaid for. And do it now.

Stop giving Central Valley farmers 70% off the top and dirty cheap fresh water. Make them save water to profit.  Set the highest environmental standards , clean up all the toxic pits and ponds, and ban rice, alfalfa and non-organic cotton.
Except rice for the migrating birds.
Un-private water companies way way overcharging back to public utility.

Rents need to be rolled back 5-10 years.
Realtors will not be able to represent the buyer and the seller; Honestly, that's Impossible, so what a dishonest greedy business.

Clean out corrupt dirty embarrassing state Capitol. Make it the best, most honest, most hard working in the US.

That's just for starters.

RENT CONTROL is not "socialism" but "civilized and many cities have had it, for many successful years.

NYC has rent control.
SF has rent control.
London and GB have rent control, Since 1915 !!

Paris has rent control.

Los Angeles has rent control.

Beverly Hills has rent control.

Santa Monica has rent control.
(I dare you realtor creeps to say anything bad about Santa Monica.)

Berkeley "bezerkly" has rent control.
Even unbefriended East Palo Alto has rent control.

(to be continued with many listings)

Washinton,D.C. (shocking) has rent control.

No, Sacramento, CA.
No, Burlingame,CA.(Losers)
No, San Mateo,Ca.(ick,rob the poor cities)

Hayward has rent control.

Los Gatos has rent control.

Oakland even has rent control.

Palm Springs has rent control.

West Hollywood has wild rent control.

San Josey has do wop rent control.

Every strange odd unrelated American should have rent control.

No, Alabama
No, AZ (live in the past, a TV western.)
No, Alaska (unless suicide by toxic mine runoff counts existentally. )
And you don't want to live Thar, do you !!??

And CA. state politicians who quietly whisper they are pro the landlords, the sellouts to a very very tiny minority, like "incumbent"(recycle!!)  Senator Hill and Rep. Mullins, seriously need replacing. Next time.

"When will we ever learn" to vote out INCUMBENTs do little politicians?!

The electorate must not be so lazy and trusting.

Really dislike ANDROID making me take out the SPAM and TRASH every night !!

Hello ?

CHP, there are lots of new vans in Napa without permit # on back. Don't you notice them all, busing illegally ?

Hello, please enforce the law thoroughly.

President Trump, We little people who can't even buy a Mayor desperately need your help and Federal protection.

It am constantly being fleeced by my millionaire Iranian-immigrant boss who stole over $10,000 a year from my pay, for 5 years in sf. The federal judge downplayed the class action lawsuit and forced a settlement of only $2000 per employee! "Eight major evidentiary violations of labor law" the court papers said. And that common greed-disease that makes it OK to put a 90 year old woman on the curb for no reason. No shame; So many lying cheating greedy selfish amoral bastards around.

My landlord outside sf has tripled my rent for a 1 bedroom apartment from $700 to $2100 in 5 years without any major repair or improvement, like the over 50 year old gas stove with unreadable knob. Rumor is these "property rights" vs "socialists" rental building owners  will continue evicting 80 and 90 year widowed old women without cause or warning. Maybe $4000/mo. for an ancient ,not updated apartment? That is $48k a year, in rent. No equity.
Renters must have fair rights and the popular use of rent control in sf.

We are gouged in buying medicine that ObamaCare did not go far enough.

My $25,000 life savings in a bank only got 54 cents interest last year.

Safe Money Report says there is a Disastrous Debt Crisis coming in 2017.

Yet Apple is allowed to hide billions in profits overseas.

The DEPT of Education is failing our public schools. Every year is worse.
And the Defense Dept and never-ending wars in the hostile volatile Middle East are costing US way too much, money we need to spend on infrastructure here.

Please think of us beleaguered workers, barely hanging on who have had the industry cut full benefits in the last 10 years. We little people, not the rich and their paid politicians, desperately need your help. That is what your election victory was about!!

OUTLOOK email for your Android mobile STINKS. It does not show sender's full email address!!

And it only shows recent emails in INBOX, not full list.

Highly NOT recommended.

Costco!! Toast should not be gummy. Your KIRKLAND MULTIGRAIN 100% WHOLE GRAIN BREAD makes gummy toast !! Ick.

Cut it out !!

Voted for Dr. Jill, the most normal Presidential Candidate. Muchias Gracias!!

Not,,,not getting down in the usual mass media mud.

When sf had the last big 7.1R earthquake in Oct 1989, all the tv channels could not get close enough to the liquifaction Marina neighborhood on fire with broken water mains.
Unhelpful hysterical "San Francisco is on fire! San Francisco is on fire!" ,in a one old rusty fireboat save situation.

Was just the N. edge of the city, the Marina neighborhood.
Camera crew should have been on central high of Twin Peaks.
But no, the major news companies-businesses went for the ratings hype instead of  professionalism.

California ballot flaw: ADDRESS LINE below SIGNATURE LINE is unequally emphasized.

The ADDRESS LINE needs to be as signifigant .

There is a clearly visible difference.

Are ballots not counted if you don't notice that there is an ADDRESS LINE ?

I went to Cabo once,Eastcape. Had the runs every day, for a week. Ah, Mexico!! And the "famous #2" fishing guide-captain insulted me ,all day and every day for a week!!

So risky, unhealthy, litter trashed eyesore , and uncivilized. Dirt poor poor.
Talking people.
Oh, and Mex drug lords.
Oh boy.
(That is why the rich hide behind the walls of very expensive many gated resorts, totally sep-a-rate.) We just missed the Sheraton walled resort murder in PV once. Credit card double charged at the most famous hilltop steak restaurant.
Shameful elitists hiding.

Mexico is a sad economy, lacking public safety even from the cops mordita, ravaged trashed countryside, low public education. Scarey, if you like risky vacation destinations.
And coyote stealing across the US border for decades.
No respect.

Gangs murdering is creeping city to city, up to Salinas and Watsonville now.
Murderers. Mexican gangs rule many US cities.
The 2500 Bulldogs of Fresno,etc.,
courtesy of Mexico. Became a tv show of out of control gangs.
Not Canada.
No, gracias.

California with all its many dairies, does not have a Ca. Milk Taste Contest. Where oh where is the milk of the 50s and 60s you actually enjoyed drinking?

Where is the non-monetized pride in making good tasting milk, a food basic?
I double dare all you "chicken" dairy farmers in California.

Just the thought of BILL Clinton back in THE WHITE HOUSE scares me SO MUCH MORE than that rebel Trump.

Hilary allowed Bill and all his unwelcome ass-grabbing of so many women with the sullied title of "President of the United States".  Bill is Hilary's achilles heel. He has underhandedly done way too much damage to the USA and the declining Middle Class because of killing Glass-Steagal and horrible giveaway "free trade deal" that even the media did not see and say how rotten to the core it was for US.

Hillary thinks she has this in her political backroom deal bag. But nothing of such a hoodwink is certain if you just ask the basics: What good and bad have Hilary and Bill done?
Want to do another Monica scandal every year?

Hillary and Bill are,by their record, super devious SCARY.

Most milk tastes lousy from Safeway or Costco, so why not have a CALIFORNIA MILK TASTE CONTEST, publically with prizes for the Best?

Even trophies,,, and bragging rights !!

Veterans as Patients at the VA don't seem to have basic human right to quick printed test results.

Why are our soldiers and veterans so disrespected ?

Where does that horrible 12-24hr after-taste to CUP OF SOUP come from ??

Someone ,please, scientifically investgate !!

Mozilla Firefox is just as bad as Google Chrome and Microsoft Hotmail: Both hide the full email address of the email sender. Bunko!!

I reserve the right to know the full email address of any and Everyone trying to email me.

Samsung' big 'marshmellow' update yesterday is seriously flawed .

A 2sec black tab shows in the MIDDLE of the screen.
Touch it in under 2sec or 'smartphone' will not change the page.

Sunbeam brand electric blankets,"DO NOT BUY !!"

I bought 4 and none of them work!

Costco item #24318, Gourmet Chocolate Chunk Cookies taste lousy mainly because they are UNDER-COOKED.

Proper cooking makes a huge difference.

Google and even Firefox don't get it: i have a basic right to know who every sender is. Their FULL email address. Their name and phone number and current location.

Don't call text email me unless you agree to IDENTIFY yourself first.

The Web hides spamers and virus worms, telemarketers and scads of IRS imposters.

So why is even Firefox ,,, on their sleazy slimy dishonest side ?
No full email address with every entry.

OROWEAT WHOLE GRAINS !00% WHOLE WHEAT bread has lousy texture. Sticky.

Usually buy at Costco.
Try to cut with a fork and it compresses.
Too sticky.
Taste texture is bad out of the toaster.
What happened, Oroweat!?

Whirlpool Cabrio clotheswasher, oh do i hate you SO MUCH !!

The window in the top door cost extra.
The safety "lock" is much longer than it needs to be, just wasting my time.
The machine is so flimsy it can not handle a full load, maybe just a half load.
The cycles are too long. Needs a timer. And takes forever to fill, not full blast.

Oh, i so hate you, but the little woman bought you !!

SF Potato Salad, Costco item #205 219, suspect has changed recipe to too much mayo. NOT RECOMMENDED

Never did like sliced vs cubed potatoes.

Tastes awful; So how could Costco allow it in the store ?

Mercedes will tell you "We really don't want to service Sprinters."

So take them to a Dodge dealer, like Hilltop!!

Costco milk,whole or 2%, doesn't taste very good.

Flat to sour.
Should be sweet and rich taste to whole  milk.
What are they feeding those Costco cows ??

People still show up at pier33, Hornblower Ferry to Alcatraz, and DEMAND a ticket ,,, sold out for MONTHS !!

They get so angry at everybody ,but their silly selfs !!

A phone call to Hornblower would have been  cheap.

Or go to the Alcatraz website, Silly people by the hundreds !!

Go to Trip Advisor and notice how selfish they are,,, me me me !!

It is pathetic how ignorant people are that say, want to go to Alcatraz.

And they get so angry, their own poor planning.

Buy tickets any day, ha !!
Hello, thousands line up to go to Alcatraz at pier 33.
Thousands !!

I was flat out Robbed by the State of California's EDD for Unemployment Insurance.

Filed a claim.
EDD said it was proper.
Started getting monthly payments to pay rent and gas.

Then EDD said "We made a mistake and filed your claim under an expired period.
Our mistake entirely , but you must give all the payments back ,plus interest and penalties", the Frisco EDD judge said. Case closed.

Almost bankrupted me.

How does the State of California get away with this !?

Why is the press and orgs not investigating this !?

Apple hides billions in profits overseas all around the world and says it is proper.

Yet the State of California is openly robbing from the working poor.

Jerry Brown's  legacy.

The Governor of California seldom talks to the public.

Jerry Brown does not lead well, does he.

Notice how American media has made this just a 2 person race for the Whitehouse, when i thought there were at least 4 candidates still running.

No favors.

Aly Raisman was clearly the 2016 Gold best on Floor. Clearly.

Aly spun twice; Simone only once.
Aly nailed the landings.

Why did the Olympic Gymnast judges miss it ??

No comment from the 2 pros "broadcasting".

Big SF foodie secret: Which restaurants are cooking with all that super unhealthy but cheap non-organic cotton seed oil ?

Very unhealthy.
Investigate, somebody !!

So tired of overpriced Cal Roll sushi with that fake crab. At over $1 each !!??

Get real alaska king or snow crab.
Enough JUNK sushi !!

Sprinter van's 2 engine a/c s are so inadequate for California.

93F in Napa and just out of shop Sprinter can't  cool it.

If you are buying a new car, do you know the term "non-interference engine" and "timing chain" vs timing belt ?? Could save you $1000s in first 5yrs mechanic crisis bill.

Car engines are still designed with maintenance  flaws. Some monor, some major.

Like Honda putting the oil filter inside the trany so you can't  change it and thus destroy another expensive transmission.
And another. Super bad design.

Which 2016 car models are "interference engines" and designed to suddenly explode ?

2016 could be the Year of the Write-in President

Too much chicanery  from both parties.

Hillary is pro-TPP and basically untrustworthy.

Trump says he's  a Republican,lord knows that party has done enough damage to the Nation since Ronnie Reagan.

Eliz. Warren doesn't  want the job; that's  a true pity.

"Bernie Sanders" still, superdelegates and poll tax, gets my vote.

Most or all car bus and semi computers are "coded" in #s, not plain English. For only mechanics not owners to read. Totally the Wrong Way !!

And so it goes.

Imagine if your car sensors and computer worked for You, since You bought the bloody expensive thing, in plain English.

Rumor has it: Tasting fees at at least Napa Valley Winery are "over $100.", i heard today from the Chamber of Commerce

Imagine.
California  Tasting Permit,,,2 fingers. Not a full glass?
"Over $100.",she said.

uber: no dispatcher, no one to talk to, no "cancel request " button after waiting 45min for "your wait is 5min"

serious design flaws

Samsung S7 has serious OVERHEATING problem.

Phone ,inside an air conditioned house, is too hot to hold !
Samsung has no software fix, yet !!

I was also refused service by T-Mobile on a BRAND NEW, bought in a T-Mobile store, $740 PHONE ,NO PHONE CALLS OR INTERNET SERVICE FOR HOURS !!

S7 has too many problems, like it deletes emails from inbox and files.

The voice-text is not worth 2c.

The spell check refuses real words.
Turn it off too.

You can't  turn off nav voice.
Nav is no better than my S3.

$740 !?
Not worth $300.

"You are not registered on the network" pop up b.s.

Avoid Kaiser: lousy MDS, botched operations, and bad medical opinions

My Dad had famous Dr. Iantoska operate on one cataract eye: perfect.
The next eye was botched operation by Kaiser and Dad bled during surgery and almost lost the eye.

I had my cut foot only partially sewn closed. "Stay on your Mom's  couch,foot elevated over the top back, and replace daily the sterile gauze packing to prevent infection." 7 months !! Gave up on female orthopedic surgeon  and let scab over 3-4 times without any infection. Went back to work.

Asked for a "second opinion" on "partial quad thigh muscle tear" diagnosis. It was a complete tear,not partial . But second Kaiser MD lied too, "partial tear, just rest easy and it will heal perfectly."

The trend of the restaurant Burnt breakfast potatoes, onions and peppers

You and i expect properly cooked food,especially at a paying restaurant.
Haven't  we had enough Burnt salmon;does not taste better.
And burnt chicken; if you can't  cook then don't.

Beware of this sinister secret "trend",may it die so quickly, of the unordered burnt breakfast potatoes.

Feel free to spank your wife if she tries to pass these off.

Gov. Brown and Senator Feinstein say "Vote for Hillary." So common sense says "DON'T".

Hell no.

Women politicians, outnumbered, have done little for California.

Ms.Feinstein, Pelosi, Boxer, Speier, Lofgren all could and should have done more for the public good with their politican careers.

So Hillary being a woman is just "pissing in the wind" with all the dismantle and delay male jerks in Congress.

Would you be surprised if you saw a Honda Accord 4dr sedan spinout in light rain, because it is FWD and too weight forward ?

I happened just so to my friend's college student in his first used car. Shocked.
Uncontrollable spinout.
Bumper hit median.
Luckily no other cars hit.
$2000 to replace both airbags.

They decided to "junk it, claim insurance, and buy another used car."

How many Honda Accord 4drs are in the US, waiting to spinout in light rain, next to you or in front of you ?

I confess, I am ADDICTED TO Langer's OJ. It's sooo delicious. And only Costco seems to carry the pasteurized gallons you can store for weeks in a closet.

What if Costco, Heaven forbid !!, decides to ,,, cancel ALL SHIPMENTS FROM MARS, or whereever, of ALL LANGER'S OJ,,, and their MANGO JUICE ??

What will I do?
How will I ,,, live?
Will breakfasts never-ever be the same, or as Good?
Will Republicans argue with Democrats in Congress for weeks that they will all become Boy Scout virtuous, if Langers and Costco agree , for "National Security" reasons that ,,,
THE JUICE MUST GO THRU ?

VA-sf, why are your eyeglass frames so cheap ugly and limited ?

Yikes.

Hillary may lose the entire West Coast. Ouch.

Triple ouch.

I accuse Google of trying to control civil free speech on Blogger; If they don't like what you are typing, your screen freezes and you get lots of error messages. This is un-American.

Google needs to be publically spanked by Congress.

Smart well-educated women do not like Kamala Harris for State Senator.

The news media should find out why.

The French move to California to do something that would be illegal in France: Raising the rent on working poor in the Bay Area 11-17% with no rental apartment surplus to move to and no price competition.

So unethical.
So unfair.
Shameful.
Are they good Catholics, tout ?

Thought price-fixing of an entire market cooperatively was illegal in the USA.

HP printers: STRONGLY NOT RECOMMENDED

Our family tried that brand for years, after LOUSY Epson.

The last big black "all in one" HP printer we bought at Office Max was 7 DEFECTIVE HP PRINTERS IN A ROW.

The manager of the Silicon Valley Office Depot just kept telling us "If it won't even set-up, then just bring it back in the big box and we will give you another one." No hassle, but what a waste of parts and time !!

We are sooo happy with our BROTHER PRINTER. The inkjet cartridges load so easily in the right front.

DUH BASICS: Yosemite

1- Entrance fees are way too high. $300 for a 45ft bus with only 5 passengers, a driver and a tour guide. The 4 entrance stations are not manned 24-7, so if you get there early and leave late, you skip the 90day wonder gate rangette, and don't pay. Or you can buy an annual pass.

2- 120 Tioga Pass from Lee Vining, eat fried chicken at Nicely's, is by far the most scenic entrance/exit. Then 140 along Merced in Spring.
Then 120 quicky from SF.
Then 41 from gang mother-rape dangerous Fresno and questionable points South. The Valley is at 4000ft elecation,1mi x 7mi, so less than a little of the huge, over 1000 sq.mi. park.

3- Best months to see the waterfalls , in the Valley, is APRIL and MAY, sometimes with a heavy rain Winter even JUNE.  That's it. The Summer crowds arrive in late May.

4- Curry tent cabins are way way way overpriced.  Alternative is to stay in motel in Oakhurst on 41.
Pretty well must take 2 hr Valley Floor Tour open air , benches for 70 ride for about $25. Especially "Moonlight Valley Tour" in Spring, full moon, at night, and DOUBLE RAINBOWS IN THE WATERFALLS people. Very very special.  Blankets and hot chocolate.

5- Highly recommend cheap booklet "YOSEMITE ROAD GUIDE", was $5 for decades , now like $20.

DUH BASICS : Santa Cruz

1- Does not have SF-strong popular effective , less than 2%, rent conrol.
Should.
But doesn't.
County wide.

Done.

DUH BASICS : Lake Tahoe, sf's Summer playground

1- Take Hwy 50's only 2 lanes if you are a speeder, an idiot, an alcoholic, and or just don't give a damn.

2- Take Hwy 80, if you are not insane. Stop in Truckee, the old town side only, not the sprawl slum of new town. Stop at Alpine Meadows and not Squaw Valley.
Stop and stay at Tahoe City area, like Sinatra's old casino or rent a condo. No you may not have my cheap motel with hottub and view on roof !!

3- if I can bicycle clockwise around the lake in a day, any dumbass can also with like no safe bike lane. Hey, thrill-seekers.

DUH BASICS: Frisco, SF, San Fran, the city

1- There are 44 hills.
So tho I like women in highheels, day or night, bring comfy shoes. Free walking tours thru "sf city guides", any hotel should have the brochure. 36 green french automatic cleaning after every use loos on sidewalk. There's a loo locator app, I kid you not.

2-The coldest days and nights are the FOGGY ones of JUNE, JULY, AND "FOGEST". DAY-times in the 50F's and you usually can not see at the top of TwinPeaks, geographic center, nor the Golden Gate bridge, the only one you can bicycle/walk all the way to sf on.

3-SF is built mostly on sand, think Florida sinkholes, every where. Most of the buildings are wooden framed, old as in ancient, and insanely 25ft narrow with dangerously old wiring and plumbing, dang few elevators, and 1BR rent of about $4k/mo. does Not include a safe secure garage parking space. But there is strong effective and popular rent control of like 1-2% if you stay in an old subdivided firetrap of an ugly face house.

4- Alcatraz in Summer has a ferry from pier 33 that in Summer IS USUALLY BOOKED WEEKS IN ADVANCE. This is for all those who don't read, don't ask, and follow the herd. So show up, try to book for the same day in Summer, get all upset because it is so 1000s/day popular, and show us how stupid you are. What other city in the world starts with "Let's go to prison !!"?

5- Alternatives, for the non-brain dead?
Beach Blanket Babylon, the longest running theatre in the USA sold out over 40 years.(tardies do not get in) Cabaret of fab voices, great humor, and wonderful costuming.
MOMA just reopened, so rent a wheelchair and a docent and "cruise".
Also Asian Art Museum and Legion of Honor Museum. By wheelchair.
Bicycle, with electric bikes for rent by the Fisherman's Wharf Holiday Inn Express.
Ask for the $25/day bike rate, of a few years ago.
Rollerskates from Haight Street to no car skate JFK DRIVE in Golden Gate Park on Sunday.
Visit Beach Chalet, Blue Sky dim sum, and Scoma's on pier 47 for best freshest fish, bfast in line at Washington Square, and pizza world award-winning at Tony's on opposite corner, gelato at Naia, lunch at Henry Hunan's hot and sour soup, and dine w Coppola at his green rust copper famous restaurant, Hamburgers in Sausalito for Bay Areas best cheeseburfer,try oldest Tadich's, definitely pop for $15 zagat restaurant guide of over 3500 in sf.

6- Unsafe neighborhoods are Tenderloin, west of 5th , and projects called Western Addition , south of Geary Street, and the entire ugly poor crime central of the SE Quarter. You rarely see a cop in SF. Duh, wtf !? That's the way it is.

There are way too many rich immigrants learning how to drive by running red lights in very expensive cars. Always use the crosswalk and look both ways !!  UCSF MED SCHOOL is by far best hospital in town. If you can afford it.

Google and Apple are expanding, building more big office buildings, but no new housing in Silicon Valley !! There is near zero availability in the rental market, with rents skyrocketing !! So where are non-rich people to live and rent in the SF Bay Area now and in the future ??

This is a housing crisis , for at least the last 5 years.

And where are the top 3 elected officials, Gov. Jerry Brown and Lt.Gov. Gavin Newsome and Attorney General Kamala Harris ?
Silent.

A crisis.

Mozilla Firefox won't let me ask a question:Why do I have to tap 3 times,"firefox" and "just once" and ""now/tab",,,, when only one click on "firefox" instead of "internet" is all that is needed/wanted.

Computer techies are not perfect.

Women, the female gender, in Cal politics:no benefit.

Feinstein, Pelosi, Boxer, Speier, whomever, should have done more for women and the general public but didn't. They are all very rich, by the way.

Rape in the US military:still common.

Rape on US college and university campuses:still common and very common at many.

Equal pay for women:no progress.

Find causes and cures for breast cancer, uterine cancer: oh, another year and another decade of fundrasing, but little hope from medical establishment.

Womens equality in the work force:Guess we will have to blame all the men in Congress for most gender inequalities.

So don't expect much from Hillary. Her history says it all.
And Bill's. Remember "Learn from history or suffer repeating it."?

BeWaRe of FWD: Another unsuspecting college student drives over 17, in light rain, in a common large 4dr Honda Accord, and SPINS OUT !!

This is far too common.
Wish we had better stats on accidents ,collisions, and spinouts.
Maybe tow truck drivers would be a good source.
And insurance agents.
And the drivers.
And the worried parents.

Both airbags went off, $2000.
Hit the median with the right front and wiped the license plate off the car,,, more $.
And , i believe, it is the basic UNBALANCED  beast that is front drive and front engine.
Even in the lightest rain, the FWD car is unsafe, uncontrollable, an accident just waiting to happen.
How many thousands and millions of Honda Accords and Honda FWDs are out there ?

American Tire store:HIGHLY RECOMMENDED !!

So friendly, professional, efficient and really good value pricing !!

So glad I found them !!

Safelite Auto Glass: NOT RECOMMENDED

I tried it.
For a broken driver's side left window.
Probably the catholic school kids next door saw my $20tip on the floor.

They did a lousy job of vacuuming inside the door and all over the floor under the driver's seat. I had to vacuum myself and hire a body shop to vacuum inside the door, lots of broken glass.

NEVER AGAIN.

Home-owners of California, who were saved from excessive property tax increases by most California voters with Prop.13,now morally owe California renters immediate relief from Excessive rental increases !!

Even if we have to recall every state politician and put a Green Party candidate in their place.

Too bad there is not someone with father-figure moral authority to talk to 4term slacker Governor Jerry Brown.
"Stop approving toxic ground fracking immediately. "

"Stop the TPP secret fraudulent trade deal as California is the 9th largest economy in the World."

"Be a Governor, and in this crisis declare a rent freeze to Jan.2015 prices or Jan.2010 prices . Then get the State Legislature out of all these landlord's pockets and pass a SF strong 2%/yr cap on rent increases statewide."

California, the 9th largest economy in the world, had it's State Legislature outlaw any further rent control laws. As a 5th generation , I am so embarsssed by these unprincipled "campaign contributions" cheats for landlord thieves!

My $700/mo rent for 1 bedroom apt on the Peninsula has TRIPLED in just 10 years to $2050/mo. , with  no improvements or elevator or ungrades.
Just "legal" unlimited theft!

DWTS professional judges forget they are judging fragile amateurs, some spoiled stars, but still "amateurs".

So I am curious if amateurs and pros will share their actual daily schedules.
Not who your sleeping with.
Necessarily.
But how many hours in jet.
How many hours of daily dance practice.
How many hours of sleep.
How many hours of chiro massage and PE.

Are there ski areas you will NEVER EVER return to for poor rude or worse service?

SQUAW VALLEY,,, the pretty sashed girl employees at the base "promised" us there was enough snow and "100% rock coverage" on the major upper bowls. Huge lie. Rocks poking thru snow all over middle of most ski runs. Damaged my favorite skis. Quit immediately.  Left immediately.  Will not return.

NORTHSTAR at Truckee,,, often employees at lift in to ski area will lie and say "We have lots of snow and 100% coverage of rocks on all runs."
So done. Bye, liars.
Beware of huge ski theft problem at all Tahoe Basin resorts and ski towns like Tahoe City.  Lost my Hart Javelins from stolen from a locked car ski rack.

More?

Is there an Airline you dislike , remember being trash by, loathe and refuse to fly EVER AGAIN ?

British Air ,,, for a male stew shouting in trans-Atlantic flight coach, "You ass Americans!" Instead of "U.S.Americans,,,"

BWIA in the Carribean,,, for stealing an expensive real Panama straw hat from overhead storage by inflight crew , before landing, in flight.

Alaska Airlines,,, so rude gate attendants in Anchorage, intentionally sending our luggage to the end of the Aleutian islands and then days later back to us,,, and allowing so many airport/airline employees, even in san jose, to frequently steal luggage and passenger-caught big heavy frozen fish boxes. San Jose is infamous for baggage theft.

More?

Stupid wasteful Saramento:Much more than $6B for defective new Oakland Bay Bridge and State Legislature chooses voter mandated High Speed Rail , not on famous sf-la/sd coast line, but L.A.-Sacramento, and NO ONE wants to go to payola, rent control is illegal now,"Sack of Tomatoes" !!

California's State Legislature is anti-voter, anti-state and for sale, rumored $10k for Representatives vote and $20k "campaign contribution" for State Senators vote.
Outlawing any new local rent control in any under-built high demand area of the State.
Can politics in California get any worse?

Pope Francis, aren't all these Catholic church-high schools just 1% elist factories that succeed by the 99% peoples low pay no raise jobs and higher and higher legal but unjust and unaffordable rents?

Like St. Catherine's in Burlingame.  The adults don't seem to have the Golden Rule common touch.  Is it considered to be "good Catholic" to charge your tenants 17% rent increases year after year, and over 10% for years before that ?  Is greed really a sin or just good Catholic, misery-making business ?  These students are just as deaf to the declining usa plight of the 99% as there parents are. So where is the Christianity in these Catholic church schools, Pope Francis ?
We are in a 1% greedy crisis over here in the usa. Maybe you are man enough to help all faiths and all nations in the current war of the rich vs the poor. I hope you can. Our President and Congress have failed US, again. We are in crisis. We desperately need some hope justice and leadership.

USB power cord, why do you suck?

First, the coupling design is awful. Who chose this sloppy pallellogram shit anyway ?

Second, some plastic package sealed male ends are snap tight and some are embarrassing I bought this, I'm dating this!? shall I say small, ill fitting. The geeks have stunk, again. Break the dam package , before you buy. Then get the dweebs to redesign the whole mess.

Third, the cord is way to fragile and unseen breaks too soon, like any pride we ever had in the adult responsibility of the computer pigs industry.

And we buy this landfill terrible corroded-China shit!?

Hey, TV LISTINGS blue tv guide, that is one gross-ugly ad cartoon campaign! See ya NOT !!

poor taste goofs !

Hey, TV LISTING BY TV24,,, you stink.

You forgot the CMA's tonight.

And you don't have LARGE BOLD channel numbers.

And, p-u!, I have to join a data-mining sucubus like G+ to rate you on the App Store, you wankers.

Headlights left on a work parking in Frisco, but TERRIBLE service road emergency from AAA !!!

First, AAA does not record how long you wait to talk to a dispatcher. Over 15minutes last night !! Horrible policy.

Second, I have paid already for premium service plan, not the basic, yet EVERY TIME I CALL AAA DOES NOT KNOW ME OR HAVE MY INFO "ON FILE". What a really bad policy. The too slow woman asked,"your number?"and it is too long, so use letters and numbers instead.

"Your full name?" I have paid all this money to AAA and they didn't even write down my name !!

The "car you drive?"  It is still the same Acura, no security door remote system and turn the ignition OFF, yet the headlights stay ON. Grrrrr !!
Stupid design, Honda.

Well it may be up to 60minutes, she said.

I was freezing.
My cellphone just died.
And 2 nice college students from Guam called for me.

The Mex pickup driver was very fast and polite, TG.
Such a horrible long day at work, then a headlight dead battery, and frustrating slow disrespectful PRE-PAID service from AAA.

Grrr.

Have asked CONSUMER REPORTS to test and evaluate CAR HEADLIGHTS for decades.

Now, today, news reported that many car headlights don't perform well and federal rules are a joke.

Finally !!

Kos reports that famous Jill Abramson says "Hillary is basically honest." And perfideous, for killing Glass-Steagal, as Bill is a proven ass not asset and should never be allowed near the Oval Office again.

Just the way Ronald Reagan was perfideous in killing the famous historic and crucial Sherman Antitrust Act. And the honest news Fairness Doctrine.
And for closing most of California's perfectly adequate State Mental Hospitals.

And California Governor Grey Davis for removing the popular and critical State price controls on home gas and electricity.  He was fired, recalled quickly. But his perfideous damage still remains.

Edyta of DWTS, where have you been for 5 long long years? Just beautiful.

Best wishes !!

SF tourist news:I talked with a bicycle rentalshop investor who said "We were making a big profit renting bicycles to tourists for $25/day, so we all decided to charge $50/day."

Maybe tourist will all ask for the "fair price" of $25/day to rent a new , well maintained, clean, lubed, shock suspension fat tire road bike in San Francisco.

Arthur Andersen is the epitome of Economics; bookkeeping should be honest, but let's break the law, cheat investors and clients, and deny responsibility.

Look at all the major Wall St. cheats, like Madoff.

You can buy day-of Alcatraz tickets in SF , but from Fisherman's Wharf tour bus companies and WITH a city tour or MuirWoods tour, as they are allowed to resell HORNBLOWER CRUISE to Alcatraz tickets. BUT YOU ARE NOT GOING TO LIKE IT !!

Listen up.
Buy Alcatraz cruise tickets 1-2 months in ADVANCE !!

Treasure Island, SF , sign says ,"Restrooms are not open to the public."

So I have to get a JobCorp job to pee in SF !?