DO NOT date a female Psychology Major in College !!

And you Thought You had problems, being single !!

Also, DO NOT agree to "be studied" with your signature, by a college Psych. roommate or classmate with only a smile, and not $50,000-$500,000!!
For without any respect or kindness they will in Psych.class rip you apart and give you an imagined personality black hole that will grapevine like kudzu all over campus for all your Years, then be read and re-read in a Psych. Dept Published report that you, sucker, will Never Ever have any access to !! Yes, I had an arrogant anti-social manipulative-bastard genius pull this one on me. Dorm life became,,, Hell. Heard of India's "untouchables"?

Again, DO NOT date female Psychology Majors at colleges regardless of their Sympathetic System charms and Para-sympathetic assets !! DO NOT.

But it's totally ok at Universities. Especially overseas Universities. The more distant and foreign the culture, the better.

(humor, some)

There is just one thing that might save the USA's experiment in a democratic republic: A Constitutional Amendment that all elected officials be 100% honest.

Our Founding Fathers had too high an opinion of themselves as the benevolent but wealthy landowners and White Male Voters and the depths of corruption men and women elected and duely Sworn on a Bible or Torah, maybe will for small sums like 30 pieces of silver or $50,000, will short-sightedly sink to.

In Burlingame, We've had a string of women Mayors elected by the majority of voters are renters and the majority of residents are renters, yet these  playing at virtuous Mayors serve the many apartment building landlords,some of which don't even live and vote in this town!, are against any type of rent control, and one will even tell you to your face how unimportant renters are in this tiny microcosm corrupted little burb of Burlingame.

Will have to ask the priest what the Christian penalty is for lying in your heart if not your word by falsely swearing on the Bible. Let's see,,, falling to a worse place and then falling again, after awhile, to an even worse place? Or maybe honing their deception in public duty by,,,?

And what is exactly the Oath of Office that is so easy abused for coin, lifetime pension and cabal botherhood?

SF and even LA and SJ have some sort of rent control.  Can you imagine, as just happened down the road in Redwood City, that your manager/apt bldg owner/slowly repair and almost never replace appliances property mgmt company told you today that "Your rent is going up $1000 more next month. Pay up or get out."?
Are we really still in the Middle Ages socially and in this regard legally !?

There is no way the USA should call itself a civilized Nation until this is immediately corrected. What will it take for all those comfortable non-renters to give a damn about those less fortunate ? Why are all religions so mute, like when the California state mental hospitals were closed and the mentally sick went to live on the streets ? Are their flocks that small and small-minded? Shame on every congregation that ignored that crisis then in state govt.

Maybe it will take the Pope to teach us all the proper value of greed in society.  And look at all the suffering! Can't or won't look, will you?

Yep.  Just frequent lie detector tests and a Constitutional Amendment of Government that is 100% honest.  A little word, but imagine the possible benefits!  I am really so tired and frustrated by all these got elected and forgot honor politicians. Aren't you?

Attention all Truckers, Bus Drivers and other users of AIR BRAKE BUTTONS !! Snap on hurts your hand every time, bad design, right? I invented years ago an AIR BRAKE LEASH out of 3' of REI 6-7mm kernmantle colorful cordage and I for decades have not had my hand spanked often,,, at work!!

Take your 3ft length of whatever rope you like,3 strand hemp twist or fancy kernnantle and tie a single fisherman's knot with the ends.
Move this knot to the 4-5oclock position.
At the 12 oclock position, pinch the loop and make an overhand knot just big enough to fit over your air brake button.

The overhand knot of the pinched together loop will keep the AIR BRAKE LEASH on the air brake button.
And the single fisherman's knot will be easier to grab than just two loose ends.
Really saves your right hand, all day long!!

I also invented the TWO HANDS MAP OF SF BAY.
And the 2 FACING LINES OF 6 AND 4 ADULTS IN A STRAIGHT LINE, ARMS OUTSTRETCHED, FINGERS TOUCH to show the max width (24ft) of our California coastal redwoods vs the max width (36ft) of our non-lumber California mountain redwoods. The tallest, use to be 400ft, trees in the World,,,96% cut down and still clear cutting!!
And the biggest trees in the World !! California also has the bristle cone pine, the oldest tree in the World !!

SF use to have a convenient free charter/tour bus parking lot at Pier 30 near the Bay Bridge for 50-250 bus to park "engines off". Now it's a paid car lot and there are 50-250 charter/tour buses circling SMOGGING UP THE Environment !!

Really Stupid.

Wikipedia post about the 1987 Golden Gate Bridge 50th Birthday Party, closed to cars, and "only flattened" by up to 800,000 sardined pedestrians is a FLAT OUT LIE !! All the local SF and Oakland newspapers clearly show the Golden Gate Bridge SAGGING IN THE MIDDLE. I was there.

Do not be deceived.
Wikipedia should be corrected.

It's like SF saying there is absolutely "NO VIDEO" of the recent Great 1989 and 45 second,7.1 Richter EARTHQUAKE.  Purchased and hidden/destroyed video, maybe. But nothing we want the tourists to see.

Recommend reading SAN FRANCISCO IS BURNING, since sf can not be honest. Corrupt Mayor then, City govt voting down high pressure water mains and hydrants, Army illegal involvement when only Governor can call out the and only National Guard, order citizens to not defend their homes that easily could have been saved from the flames, police and citizens and Army looting and sport shooting civilians on sight.

Wouldn't it be nice,,, and proper, ,, if Every City had in its Charter that it "MUST BE 100% HONEST WITH ITS ELECTORATE AND CITIZENRY. "
Period. Simple. Obvious. But overlooked, oops!

Imagine,,,
How different all levels of usa govt would be.

I have the Samsung Galaxy S3 $500 smartphone,,, and don't like Android software making me "PLEASE WAIT,,," to fill and empty the email "Trash" folder !!

Also DO NOT APPRECIATE the lack of full email addresses and names vs abrevs !!

Also, having to tap 2 screen buttons to fully open every darn email !!

For the first 2 years I had a Navigation problem with a frequent annoying pop-up asking "Would you like to exit Navigation now?"
No, I'm driving for 30min or many hours !! What idiot software developer and manager would think, "oh let's annoy customers using Navigation with this pop-up!"
Instead we still need Navigation RETENTION, especially when you get a call or make a call and change screens. Anyone listening?

In Navigation,  I speak or type where I want to go, then am asked on another screen, "From your current location?"
Nawh, let's just wait till I am almost there, maybe a block away, then Navigate !! Stupid.
And then there is ANOTHER SCREEN, before Navigation actually starts !!  Again, what idiot software programmers decided to make Navigation for car drivers, not train engineers, so redundantly obtuse !?
Destination and navigate, dammit!!

In navigation, I wish I could choose overhead or angle view of next half mile OR ,,, NEXT 5 OR 50 MILE VIEW ANGLE.But no, I just get to tap between overhead 1/4mile or angled view of next 1/2 mile, not really enough if cars can go 70mph in California.  Yeah, they really legally can.  Also want to have option of selecting North at top of map or direction of travel at top, as a setting. Voice prompts come too late, too close to turn without enough preparation.  Again, cars go 65mph, and faster.

The camera is too slow to focus and too low in image detail. Not 1080p HD.

The speaker is very inadequate as even with added volume on called # page, the speakerphone volume and clarity are a "D-".
So forget about listening to music or music videos or even YouTube.

And data is sooo darn slow here in the sfbayarea !!

If you're going,,, to San Fran-cisco,,, you don't have to follow the Herd and go to Alcatraz Prison Island. Other options:

1, Do you want an inexpensive BOAT RIDE, subsidized by the high Golden Gate Bridge car tolls ? Then for about $10 go to the Ferry Building and take "second most scenic FERRY BOAT ride in the World , after Shanghai" to SAUSALITO, have lunch at Poggio or Scoma's or Hamburgers or Napa Valley Burgers. Ferry back.

2, Want a free guided city tour, no charge-donations accepted, instead of the usual $40 each ?  Go online and look up SAN FRANCISCO CITY GUIDES, they have a nice brochure at most good sf hotels also. Lots of different walking tour, EASY EXERCISE slow walking, such as the Victorian Houses and the Barbary Coast from the dangerous gold rush. Hint: Watch the dvd "gold fever 2014" , as the California gold rush history has been completely rewritten, less Sacramento Mr.Sutter&Mr.Marshall and much more lying greedy merchant Sam Brannan(the huge lie was "I saw lots and lots of gold all over the ground near the American River,"said just to sell 1000% overpriced supplies) , first millionaire. Cal has seen lots of booms:gold, redwood 96% gone, salmon and ocean fisheries near dead, oil as the world #1 producer for a time, fresh water for farming and far distant suburbia growth,,, now privacy info worthy $Trillions with .com companies. Great PBS documentary on those.

3, SF has many backyards, from thousands in the SW quarter the Sunset District, to fancy one in the rich NW quarter.  But Frisco (if you only knew sf stole its name from Benicia) has many lovely FREE PARKS !!  In the NE or Downtown Quarter, I recommend the Transamerica Insurance co. private redwood tree park and pond with frogs in memory of Mark Twain sometime drinking, sometime working nearby.  Save the cost and time of tour bus-ing to MUIR WOODS IN MARIN. (Morning opening time is the best.)
From the ugly duckling, sore thumb of the T.A. building, a senior for 75c can take the steel twin rails and overhead electricity of the F-line street cars in many colors to Fisherman's Wharf and the lovely WPA depression era park , AQUATIC PARK, where you can watch brave souls swimming in speedos in the 54degree "bay", the Sacramento River, the biggest river in the State. Go West to the also scenic MARINA GREEN with lunch on Chestnut or Union Street. 

Sunny? Maybe a great view and sunbathing at ALAMO SQUARE PARK or DELORES PARK, surrounded by all those fab murals and good Mex food. Now Latino, this use to be the big German neighborhood in sf.

The about 1500 acre federal lands of the old Army base, the PRESIDIO is good for a visit to CRISSY FIELD and the pre-Civil War fort under the GG bridge, FORT POINT, and go inside and to top on open weekends. The private for-profit but not well done Presidio Trust manages this Federal land.

Around to one of the best neighborhoods , Sea Cliff, and the most popular Black's Beach? Don't miss historic Cliff House and the famous indoor swimming pools ruins of the Sutro Baths !

Next up, GOLDEN GATE PARK, larger than NYC's Central Park, and maybe should be renamed Yerba Buena ,"lots of weeds", Park since it was made from "western wasteland " sand dunes and many carts of manure and various plantings.
Great art, mosaics and murals inside Beach Chalet, and good place to watch the sunset over the Pacific with a draft beer and some squid-calamari maybe from Monterey Bay.
I like the bison herd, the toy yacht pond Spreckle's, and the fine friendly folk at the Flycasting Pools. Wish the Japanese were running the Tea House Garden, good reparations long past ww2; They need to serve fortune cookies where they were invented, again. The aquarium and roof top garden of the Cal Academy of Science are a hit, tho que is odd. Hear the great food court mgmt co left. Then the no longer free formal gardens of Stribing. And the private money expensive redo of the white building, the Conservatory.  JFK Drive is partially closed on Sundays for roller skaters , bicyclists, and babybuggy walkers.

TWIN PEAKS in the geographic center of the city, but not highest hill, all under 1000', is a good view, except on freezing cold windy zero vis, most Summer days.

Nearby is upper and lower Haight Street and the much improved Hayes Valley restaurant scene.

Beware of the Western Addition projects w bars on windows and high crime, and Tenderloin whores and drug dealers and the entire SE quarter, too poor, high crime, too few cops.

Dear fellow Costco shoppers: 716674, Tommy Bahama mostly cotton-some nylon socks in many colors seem to be a WINNER

I bought about 20 pair of the black dress socks. For work.
Very comfortable.
First wash ,,, seems not to fade.
Do recommend turning inside out when you take sock off, to prevent white lint on outside of black socks.
About to wash all for second time and will see how they stand up.
So far, much prefer over Costco's other black nylon dress socks that are usually too tight for size 12 shoes.

California car insurance price gouging, weak State Insurance Commissioner, weak State Attorney General, weak Lieutenant Governor, weak Democrat Governor, ,, and Nationwide overcharging safe senior driver.

I am over 65, had been with Nationwide for decades, am a very careful and safe driver, and drive my car less than 40 miles a day.

My car insurance was about $800/yr, with $1M uninsured motorist, as we have lots of terrible new drivers in California and SF!!

I heard I could go back to the California Legal Minimum, for less than $400, but Nationwide Mutual, a non-profit, said "no, we will charge you almost exactly the same, for much less insurance." About $780.

I am a very safe driver.
So much for company loyalty!!
So much for California insurance companies!!
So much for trying to ripoff seniors!!

I went to AAA, for only $300.!!

Snap, Nastia is voted off DWTS ! Can't fake-smile at partner in romantic dancing vs cold-machine gymnastics

Bummer.
Just smiling is all she needed to Win.
Oh, well.
She would Not take judges advice , early advice to "connect emotionally with partner. "
Can't gymnasts be allowed to smile too, if they love their sport? And team? And coach?

Why would Android and Samsung think it was a Good idea to have their "smartphone" customers "Please wait,,," while the $500 phone fills the trash file, and empties the trash file ??

You can't do it automatically, daily. Or hourly.
And the longer you wait to empty trash emails, the longer Android and Samsung make you,,, wait.

Plus the phone "Favorites" heading on my G3 totally does not work.  The list is full of triplicates and quads, and people I never call !!
How could Android have such sloppy stupid unrefined software ??

And after a few years this "smartphone" is sooo bloody slow, even in SF or Silicon Valley !!

Ready for the fourth, a $600 "smartphone"??
The V.A. says their website is not designed or useable on such devices.
Told the same by the big power company, PG&E, about billing. The company that got away with gas mainline explosion defective maintenance killing 8 and blowing up 38 houses.

Cal-train, from Gilroy-San Jose-SF is by Far the Best train service in the SFBayArea, with Amtrak a distant second and BART a distant 3rd, old super expensive dirty cars, garbled station announcements, and too small station signs

So if you are planning a SF vacation, there are scores of fine hotels and motels along Cal-train, El Camino Real Boulevard nearby, or Highway 101,  often Much Cheaper than inside expensive SF.

Happy Trails !!

Why are most American young women emotionally and verbally closed off to their sexual partners!?

I'm in my 60s now and looking back over 45 relationships since my 20s, the one near certainty was that the beautiful smart college-education fun , good job often higher paying than mine, woman would never ever tell me how she felt , in bed or out. Amazing, eh?

They would say "I love you" after a few weeks or a few months of sleeping , and eating and even living together.  But never "I like you" or "I like you but I don't trust you."  I always felt these young highly desirable women were telling their girlfriends and sisters and mothers much more than they ever told me!  And I can prove it; She was an artist at heart, in love with a super handsome blonde (straight) guy who only wanted monthly visits so he could "meditate"(nut), and worked at a famous hotel front desk.

I would go by after work and ask her how her day was going, what art she was hiding behind the front desk. She was a 10 in my book, ok a 9 and 1/2 for being hung up on a never attainable guy.  I brought her a rose once, but really didn't think I had a chance. Then one night she asks me to her tiny apartment after work!.

I envisioned lots of kissing and compliments, of her. Take it slow and gentle.  Talking kissing touching. Instead she undressed and laid on the bed.
We had sex. She said "I need to sleep", so I told her she was beautiful, I liked her and her art, and I hoped the sex was ok or good enough. Soo gushy embarrassing! No comment.

I left. As I walked away I felt like I had not told her how special sex was with her, for me, and how I admired and respected her. So , since I am no artist, I went back to the famous luxury hotel and got some stationary and an envelope and wrote my feelings, desires, wishes, dreams, hopes down and even apologized if the sex the first time wasn't good enough. I felt like a fool. But I was smitten by this perception of near perfection.

When I got back to her tiny apartment,  I could hear her loudly laughing and telling these other girls every detail about how I was such a terrible lay !  Here I had done 99% of the work, she only undressed, and I was being publically mocked about our intimacy!
How could such a woman be so cruel and closed off?!  I left the envelope and letter in the door jam very quietly and left.
I was so hurt, even after 20 relationships. After a week she asked a mutal friend to apologize to me for her.

I have never paid for sex. And never will. Yes, I have had some secret slut one night stands, but that is because those women never told me they were sleeping with anybody. And I do mean anybody. Like a dead cow. What is the point?  It seems so sick for women to act this way, but who is going to teach them , if not their mothers and or Oprah!?

The famous SF lawyer. Wow. She could barely wisper "I love you."  We swam at night in the Bay at Aquatic Park. What a mind. What a body. What a total failure to talk face to face and with total honesty. I wanted to marry her. But she could not tell me. I had no idea at all what she thought felt about me. Women, you Must tell us!    What a regrettable loss.  Oh, if I had only said "look, I can't afford you, but I think I love you. How important is my income and my love to you?"

Of all these 40+ women , only two wanted their own orgasm on the first bedding.  Amazing.
How can women go for months and years without an orgasm of their own!?  Are they doing it alone, secretly and privately? And not telling, not talking with their partner? Or just cold turkey?

For some of these much richer than me, and much better job than me women like lawyers nurses and teachers, how can you live with someone for two years and then at Christmas or New Years PROPOSE and say "I love you, let's get married, after you get a new job that pays over $80k instead of $40-50k. Otherwise, get out."
No discussion,  just a surprise ultimatum.  Bizarre. Happened 3 times to me.

How can a beautiful grocery checker invite you to "her apt" for dinner and it turns out to be his expensive apartment, her boyfriend's,  who "I am going to break up with!" And she really thought we were going to have this delicious meal and all night sex in HIS very expensive apartment she could not afford!? I so wanted her and had tried for months to ask her out. Costco big cheap dozen red roses weekly,,, Why didn't she tell me she had a BF and wanted to break up?  She should have more self confidence and self respect.  So women live with rich guys for the comfort but don't love them, and we all see this all the time. Especially rich old selfish grumpy men. What a pity. What a compromise.

Why did the stunning short blonde hair dresser in Millbrae and Bgame never tell me how she felt about me, how she wanted me to propose, how she had gotten pregnant and was going to have the baby alone with her mother because I could not read her mind and her heart?.  I Definitely would have married her and been true faithful, if I had heard even just one positive word. The sex was great. She was gorgeous. So young. So fit. So fun. But as important as our relationship was to me and obviously to her, she did not want to talk about it!  She wanted the guy to propose. I so wish she had told me these desperate secret expectations.  Maybe that was the my "the one".

Last year I had 3 lovers come by, after 20 years , to see if I still had magnum good looks.
My brown hair is mostly grey and I weight 250 vs 200 at 6'2".
One nurse who had married an unknown lawyer after our break up and had 4 daughters, lived in a huge fancy 2 story house, divorced the lawyer,,, she only want me listed as a "friend" on her Facebook page. No discussion. No reminiscing.  No feelings, no tenderness.  In fact she lied and said "it is not like we were ever in love !" Ouch.   How do you know it is love, and for both of you?

One left me for a "fat, no neck!!" millionaire engineer, had 2 boys, lived in Paris, our city, and been dumped at 50. She was still drop dead gorgeous, smart as Einstein,  but could not even introduce herself "hi, it's Karen. Do you remember me after 20 years? (Her parents were drunks and physically abusive, locking her in a dark closet all day.)   Do you have any feelings for me?"  She just showed up at my work, looked so sad and heartbroken it killed me, and then she walked away,,, in her signature tight jeans and fancy high heels I use to love and tease her about. Is that, just that, all she wanted to happen!?  Why couldn't she just say my name?  Why plan for disappointment?  Why not at least try to reach out again? I would have hugged her so long.  We had lived together for 4 wonderful years way back then.
What a tragic waste !!  I only wish you the very best, Karen Valerie Jill Colleen girls-women.

And let's not forget the super rich , all powerful fathers of the stunning divorcees with 2 kids, the blonde therapist in Orinda and the plus size model in Ocean Beach-San Diego. The 2 boys in their cowboy boots always kicking me in the shins; Yeah I know I am not your real biological father!!  And then ending an immature marriage after my wife declared it open. So embarassing.
"Hello, I'm her father and there is no way you are marrying my daughter."
The Frisco irish lawyer and some big DC V.P. made their point. It was love for me, no harm, no foul, just could not pay all their bills. So why is it so hard for women to tell him their feelings, wishes and hopes?

I accept that I am average income.   But what do women want? They are in the driver's, accepting, seat;  Famous Look magazine back page editorial. Look at all the relationship misery out there. Guys shouldn't be blamed for more than 50%. So are women going to relate better,tell more, love better, live better, here in "better off" America?
Hope so.
I don't think they know what they are missing, what with all the bad relationship modeling around.
So many "couples" not holding hands and not smiling. See there. And there.
Talk about an American tragedy! ! I missed so much, with so many. My apologies.

Dear fellow Costco shoppers!! Today the 4 colors of the UNION BAY CARGO SHORTS go on sale !!

Looks like the buyers have found a Winner !!

Bought 6 pair a few days ago and will return tomorrow, with receipt, to get the sale discount! !

Only up to size 38.
Made in Vietnam, not China,,, good.
Label warns of fading but I ran one tan pair through regular wash and no fading at all on first and only wash.

Very light fabric.
I've had some 100% cotton canvas heavy ones for about 5 years. The bottom hem edge frayed. And the "little woman" said the old comfy all cotton ones from Ross had to go!!

Bought tan and also soft green. Passed on dark camo and blue. GF would look good in blue,,,

Good job, Costco!!

Congress and Burlingame, Ca.:The macro and microcosm of campaign contributions totally subverting American Democratic Republic

Fact: Most of the residents of Burlingame are renters. And most of the registered voters are renters. But the Mayor , A.K.,will tell you, a renter, in public that she cares more about the businesses of Burlingame than the voters who elected her and the city council, because of campaign contributions.

Rent control? "Not interested."
Rent freeze in economic crisis?
"Not interested."
More reduced overnight and day rate parking for renters and residents?
"Not interested."
Uniform higher standards for all apartment buildings, so old buildings are not exempted and allowed to have no basic security garage doors, and over 50 year old appliances like refrigerators , gas stoves and antique toilets?
"Not interested."
My building's rents have gone up more than 10% each of last 4 years to sum of 50% increase!!
"So move," she says.

This is how the USA is diminished and Democracy dies.

Foreign and Native travelers on AMTRAK should BEWARE of massive deception in the California "train" route use of BUSES, instead of a TRAIN !!

This is fraud, of course,  hiding in small print.

My apologies to all visitors to California.

Huge American Press Cover-up!!: The 1989 "loma prieta", Santa Cruz based,7.1 quake and the press release that "No one in SF got the 45 second earthquake on video." Not a pro or amateur, with all those tourist in town?? B.S.!!

Why is the govt and media/press hiding the facts and probably destroying any videos, evidence?

Why have most of the 1987 videos of the Golden Gate Bridge's 50th birthday party, and huge sagging middle, been taken down from YouTube and the Web?  Why does Wikipedia let someone bold face lie and state that "the bridge only flattened"?

Shades of book,1984.
No long national discussion of the Right to Privacy. Just a lot of hypocritical .com companies secretly taking and selling FOR $ MILLIONS and $ BILLIONS any and all private information, even your medical records.  And Congress does nothing.
And the national American Media and Press do little to nothing.

Shocking.

California CDLs/commercial driver licenses have become Very Difficult to get for driving Semis or School Bus. How hard? More difficult than some college classes !!

Why is California being so hard on the working poor !?

Why, if it is so darn important , do you have to MEMORIZE 7 full pages of a pre-trip inspection, if can use the PRINTED 7 FULL PAGES when you inspect the Semi, bus or School Bus at work !?

State should promote the SMITH SYSTEM, like UPS.

California is sooo messed up (by Sacramento)  !!

San Francisco refused the donation of a WW2 battleship,, and fumbled dropped the Star Wars Museum !! SF's #1 biz is TOURISM.

2 huge mistakes by sf city-county govt.  HUGE.