How did "San Francisco" get its name? Only because most tour guide Don't Know, or Make-believe!

Some native Indians scattered in temporary  sites all over the peninsula tip sand dunes.
About 200 Indian tribes in the state.  Some fierce like up by Mt. Shasta and some fat and happy like Yosemite Valley Ahwahneechee, trading obsidian on East side of Sierras for decoration shells from the Coast.  Little is know because of settlers hostile "savages" attitude  and Natives lack of any immunity to European diseases like smallpox.

In 1769, some Spanish in Mexico walked and rode up the rugged coast  with a sailing oriented map,  heading for deep water harbor and military tiny outpost of Monterey, under Portola. They got lost and wandered N. of Monterey  to the tip of the Peninsula. Obviously,  this isn't  Monterey!

Their camp near 280 and Millbrae has a roadside marker.
They surveyed. Too much sand dunes for farming. Tho many sf tour guides makeup "mint farming". ;o
Lots of Grizzly Bear,  elk,  deer,  and the

(to be continued)

The by far, Best V.A. clinic in the Entire SF BayArea? You might be surprised. My vote says,,,

San Bruno V.A. Clinic,  by National Cemetery and big sprawling SFO Airport.

Best receptionists.
Best nurses.
Best  docs, UCSF, new new new!Medical Grads, interns and Residents.
Big parking lot,  gonna have to be made bigger...
Tiny hard to find entrance,  so use pics on Google Map.
Inside tip: Dr. Richie, female doc
Only negative: dietitian who hasn't yet read, "Eat Fat,  Get Thin" or "Fast Metabolism" or other current popular health books.

So much better than sj clinic or big sprawling, "don't care" Palo Alto Hospital and such,  or even Frisco's "no exterior photos, for National Security!" Lands End NW corner hospital, and such, understaffed,  littered,  messy lazy cafeteria of mediocre food and still not enough parking!

The SPCA is so Rich from Public Donations, check out the top down salaries, that it can afford and should do an inspection and rating of every cat and dog breeder in the Nation. Don't want the SPCA on your "private property", so reported!

Enough is Enough!

There are just way too many lying cheating damaged by no handling pet mills in the USA.

When my Sis retired from the horrid LAUSD,  I gave her a $1000 to buy 2 Persian Longhair Kittens.
The female LA breeder swore they were "hand raised, in my Home".
Big fat stinking lie!
Both kittens or cats were and are so afraid of all, all people.

We Must Stop This.

WAZE stinks and GOOGLE MAP is lousy.

A few months ago I had a charter out of Frisco and picking up about 20 miles NE of Napa town.
Lake Berryessa,  Marley Cove resort.
And WAZE said to take 80E to Vacaville,  then 505N to Williams, then 128W .
Seemed like 3 sides of the box.
So took Napa town 128E on miles of narrow winding country road.
Took forever!
Still don't know,  with all those make me sick too cute icons,  which route would have been better.
And did have to take group to hell and back after the Napa Wine Tour.
Decision: Reservoir Berryessa is just too dam far and difficult to get to!

So went back to Google Map.
Frisco to S.Cruz run.
In pm commute,  Friday,  2p-8p.
G. Map said "either 280S, lots of accidents,  or 101S, lots of accidents."
So I took Hwy1, on the coast.
Not much traffic,  no accidents,  Great Scenery,  and no chps so good fast time.
No bloody Hwy 17, "thank God"!

Michael Goodwin of IMPRIMIS, Hillsdale College is so Wrong that "liberalism is baked into the journalism cake. " It is only a recent influence to Conservative, Capitalist, Pro-biz bias for decades if not centuries of pandering. Stop trying to falsify and rewrite history!

As recent was the West Coast conservative news blackout of any coverage on the West Coast of SF's Summer of Love social crisis event.

And all the positive,  "winning" bullshit conservative media coverage of the lie,  shameful,  wasteful defense spending and lives wasted of the Vietnam War.  No one in their right mind can call that conservative media coverage "liberal".

Fellow Costco shoppers: item #736 260, No Touch brand All Wheel Care, is NOT RECOMMENDED!!

Bought 2 6-pacs, and very little tire shine.

Have tried about 20 different tire dressings,  and Armorall Original is still the best.

AUTODESK was in California for a week Junket from all over the World, free luxury hotels and luxury meals on AutoDesk. But they did not tip all their drivers even $1.

That is so Cheap.

All appliances should have a picture of the INNARDS without the hiding shiny paint and metal SKIN, like cars.

Too many of us only see and thus buy the 'skin' LOOKS.

"Shooting at ups-sf", having worked there in the late 80s, before computers for delivery drivers. I am not surprised. Bad Corporate Culture of overpaid, private stock only managers constantly Yelling at union but underpaid delivery drivers, "tossed loads" instead of "rough sort" by nightshift Loaders to be sorted properly off hub property!, too thin 3 tires on slippery set Winter rain roads!, before CC climate change, and rookie coarse shirts that cut the back of your neck!

News reported it was a UPS employee shooter.

So before Any anti-gun,  IGNORANT, loud-mouth spouts off,  this shooting was partly UPS's Fault. Don't  blame a gun.

Other than the annual mandatory Smith System driver training,  UPS created and for too long ran a Very Hostile work place environment for the lowest rank,  the front line,  the semi drivers and Especially local delivery drivers!

Oh,  and not all vans had a plastic semiclear, sunlight ventilated roof so you could see easily in the package back area. Had to open back door.  And fresh air ventilation to breath?
No a/c.
Vans were never washed inside,  either the dusty back or the dusty front; Just the outside 'image' was regularly washed.

So I left and happily, Much less stress,  drove a SF beer truck.
First driver to change into 'Indian Summer' shorts after leaving the China Basin Miller warehouse! Castro boys loved it,  and thus so did my redneck boss!

Get All the Facts on oops UPS. 

A Right to Privacy law, state by state, is so needed.

Maybe even a Constitutional Amendment.

The Standard parking lot space, concrete abutment is 5" high. Modern luxury cars are Lower than 5". So if the industry and buyers had Any Common Sense, at all, they would but 3" abutments!!

But life, especially  Govt,  is not practical.
It's  soon messy.

Frisco's OCC is a Farce.

But it's 311, 24-7 to report citywide public repairs is WONDERFUL!

T+L: Probably Very Wrong on 2 counts.

Sausalito's "HAMBURGER. " is so much better than Cal. listed "In & Out".

Second,  Alaska Airlines might be just OK in the Lower 48.
Like at SeaTac.
But inside Alaska it Reeks!, mostly.
And from Cal. to Hawaii,  "Ugh!", drab grey interiors and drab grey crews.
Go via Hawaiian Airlines.

MICROSOFT has lots of blame responsibility for www./Web INSECURITY !! Why ??

Not only do they keep 100s of SPAM messages on all your devices more than a day.
YES, open that Spam folder and see how much junk is kept there!!

But when you tap "details" in Hotmail-Outlook to see a Sender's FULL EMAIL ADDRESS, it is still not shown to you, the Receiver !!
Such blantant dishonesty.
What Mischief !!

And Microsoft allows jumbled letters addresses by people up to NO GOOD to send you FRAUDULENT Fake emails from Reputable websites like Costco and the Sierra Club !!
This puts all of us AT RISK of INFECTED COMPUTERS that take 40hrs and $1000s to software dissemble, clean, and reload safely !!

What a NUISANCE !!

Why Salesforce and Twitter STINK !! They threw food in my New Stretch Limo!, left Gum on the floor!, and after Constantly Bragging about being So Overpaid, DID NOT TIP $1 for All Day in Wine Co. !! BOYCOTT TILL THEY BOTH GET some MANNERS !!

Horrible arrogant selfish primadonna SLOBS.
Acting WORSE THAN UN-CHAPERONED CHILDREN !!

"BOYCOTT!!"

Congress Must change the National Park OVERPRICING POLICY Now !! Call and Write Today !!

Prices are "Rich Only" in many of OUR National Parks !!

NPS and Congress let the last Yosemite Concessionaire TAKE the Names "Ahwahnee" and "Wawona" and "Curry" !! Time to Boycott DELAWARE NORTH !!

Write letters to Congress!!

Call your Elected Representatives !!

This must Not be Allowed !!

Why is OUTLOOK Saving SPAM in the SPAM folder???

And with No Option to "Empty SPAM folder???

Found today, by opening SPAM folder, I had hundreds,,, thousands,,,!!,,, of Saved SPAM by Microsoft Hotmail Outlook,
that i do Not want Saved !!

So why is Microsoft so Keen on saving everybody's SPAM ???
Very odd.

I am so disappointed with the Greed, Ignorance, Defensiveness, and Same Old Same of Western Medicine.

Let's start with ,,,
Your medical records are the property of every doctor in every State you ever visited.
The efficacy and obvious Right of every paying or free care patient to their medical records is still strongly fought.

Next, even the worst doctors or dentists are equally protected.
The AMA and ADA refuse to change in spite of overwhelming evidence of the benefit to change.
I have had 2 Kaiser orthopedic surgeons lie, "second opinion", that I only tore my quad, instead of a complete separation, to save the liable medical insurance cost of a simple operation. I had a famous SJ podiatrist allow his medical school graduate-only son to illegally operate while I was under general anesthesia and botch one of the 2 bunion simple surgeries.
I had a zealot Dr. Emmott sign "vasectomy" only orders for bilateral hernia repair and Mills Peninsula pushed the clearly wrong Surgical Orders ,"oh, found the correct one!", as a lie 3 times. I could go on and on.
Like Dr. Peel in Willow Glen who drilled holes in good teeth to make cavities, back in the 1950s and 60s.

There are way too many risky expensive unnecessary cesarian surgeries because doctors don't like waiting.
And they don't have the basic midwife skill to turn babies in the womb.
So my Mom's only Sis had a pinched umbilical cord in delivery and was an EMR expensive "child" her entire long almost 80 years life.

Cancer was ,according to Ken Burn's documentary, treated with Chemo therapy because of a WW2 germ warfare wacko, not good science and good medical research. Radiation therapy was also a black bag grab because of an aggressive uranium salesman. And sawbones scary radical surgery has still not gone away.
Even with PRP.
The public has given way too much money to breast cancer research where it was quickly wasted and spent on lavish lifestyles of MDs.

Why is medical research so,,, slow,,, to progress?
I know a Einstein-like genius PhD. who suddenly quit all medicine when she found out her brilliant treatment research would not be used, ever, for the deadliest microbes.

Why is a computer knowledge base so anathema when I have had docs pull out a huge PDR book right in front of me.
"I have no idea what this is."

Why are referrals to Specialists so hard to get !?
To save money when expensive paid insurers should be getting full best medical care?
My 99 year old ,great genes and healthy, Mom can't even see a Kaiser dermatologist for 2 dark brown toenail fungus problems, for years. Tight gatekeeper PCPs reduce medical insurance cost and increase profits.

Why can the simplest treatments be so quickly forgotten and ignored.
Got poison oak rash my whole life. Once so bad the GP doc insisted ,when I came out of 2 week bedroom hiding, on a 3 day effective cortisone shot.
In the 60s Tecnu soap was invented by the military to wash off WW3 nuclear fallout and it works great washing off all 3 poison oak, ivy ,and sumac sticky oil in the first 24hrs; but many docs and even famous Dermatologists don't know about it. Can you see all those children unnecessarily suffering?

What will it take for Western Medicine to grow up and get science-real?

GOOGLE MAP's "recent search" list is AWFUL.

Doesn't list the last 5 Places I have BEEN ,,, or the last 5 Places I have LOOKED AT.

Just lousy.

SAFEWAY CASHIERS told me Repeatedly in mid-May, "The Monopoly Game is Over." A BIG FAT LIE !! Coupons for free stuff Still could be Redeemed ,up until MAY 30th.

Lousy P.R., Safeway !!

SHAME! on Sacramento and California Voters for allowing Public School Teachers to be so ABUSED! with low starting pay,,, and having to my the SCHOOL DISTRICT PROPERTY like Movers from one classroom to another, smetimes TWICE A YEAR!,,, and for letting them be FORCED ONTO ADMINISTRATION COMMITTEES !!

And that is why Most Public School Teachers quit ,,,
In a few years!

WARNING!!: Do Not buy a Whitlpool Cabrio clotheswasher!! WEAK and SLOW !!

My 90 yr old Mom went to the same old Bascom appliance store ,without Consumer Reports, or one sensible of 4 children.

The Cabrio can't easily and "short cycle" quickly wash 6 beach towels.
When wet, it is just too heavy for this weak lousy machine!!

Kettle Brand POTATO CHIPS, Sour Cream and Onion, green bag, about 13" x 7", was ONLY 1/2 FULL !??

Too many of the chips were small or broken.

Had to use knife or sizzors to open paper-plastic laminated bag. Near impossible to open nearly by hand.

NOT RECOMMENDED.

Fellow Costco Shoppers: item # 977 884, NATURE'S BOUNTY ultra strength PROBIOTIC 10, 10 strains, 20B cultures" is not effective enough in morning bowel, so NOT RECOMMENDED.

Maybe, as one probiotic commercial says, too many of the cultures die in the stomach.

Frisco is at a crisis corner: Continue with $ as King and rampant lawlessness from 5 televised police closed-circle assinations of homeless mentally ill, to the West Coast capitol of tourism where in the 80s and 90s almost every charter and tour bus company was blatantly robbing all drivers of their legal overtime pay and mailed in gratuities like SuperSightseeing proven evidence by a judge, and rich landlords abusing a loophole in rent control by "moving relatives in" but not being prosecuted for shortly getting much higher cost leasers in a "rent control city", or to a City with a conscience for all and a Mayor willing to step on many toes to do what's right.

I witnessed the sfpd motorcycle cop in the Miller Beer Distributor warehouse arrive every Friday, for years, to collect an envelope.
But the inept and probably incompetent sf Grand Jury process and former sfpd cop District Attorney seem to be looking the other way.

So many illegal or unjust evictions.
So much wage theft.
Yes, on the surface a Popular but Expensive Tourist destination.

The Bay Guardian newspaper is gone, alas.
The once famous Chronicle and Examiner are both insignificantly thin.
And Zagat guides bought and closed by Google.

Do they know the Gold Rush was a lie by a greedy SF merchant Sam Brannan, who has a street named for him?
He never saw the acres of surface gold he wrote about in his newspaper that lured millions to move to California with gold fever. But he did raise his shovel and pick tool prices about 5000% and became the first millionaire of that delayed 1948 hoopla about "one small nugget found at Sutter's Mill".

Where are the millions sfpd made running all the rackets vs the mob in the Roaring 20s and beyond, according to the KQED travel show series?

How deep is the City-County irresponsibility and corruption in City Hall?
Will the first Chinese Mayor do anything?
Can the sfpd and the health dept and dpt and public works,etc. be any more incompetent and unreliable!?

This is crisis crossroads time for Frisco, that took its name from Benicia,who was first to take the name of the Bay.

Tried "McAfee Mobile Security FREE" after a T-Mobile Tech's strong recommendation:Security and Locate, Free Download !! So disappointed with Intel-McAfee !!

The Security part seemed to protect, but I was getting hourly warnings on my ZTE Axon7 "cellphone of the year" about Very Excessive Battery Use!!
Hourly.

As for the Locate FREE service, it did not work !!  Ever. Never.
I misplaced my cellphone in a rush Saturday night packing to go Sunday up to Yosemite Valley just for the day like many tourists, driving 4-5hrs from the Bay Area.
So after looking a lot, I called Intel-McAfee and was told repeatedly that the FREE service only allowed on screen typing Chat , not a person to person conversation. Politely so.

Ok, started a Chat and was repeatedly disconnected, my fault maybe, and ignored !!
"Chat in less than 2min",,, mostly did not happen.
Plus when I did speak to someone, from india, they told me "do it yourself from a computer on the McAfee Mobile Security.com website!"
Two asked to have applet access to this custom large Gateway tower PC, and that sounded Dangerous "for a teaching lesson" !!
One woman even said, get this,  "You certainly don't expect us to use our (Intel-McAfee) computers ,do You, with over 4m customers, just to locate lost cellphones ?!"
Yikes.

So I tried the website, "mcafeemobilesecurity.com" over and over for the Locate FREE service, waiting over 10minutes once.
It never worked. Never. Ever.

Turns out my cell was in the entry hall, just buried, and not a dead battery yet.
One woman scolded me, repeatedly!, that,,,  "1st,cell must be ON,2nd, GPS must be ON , and 3rd, Must have an internet connection!!"
My cell had all 3 criteria.
But McAfee Locate FREE service and website never worked. Never. Ever.

I read on McAfee and Lookout that if your battery dies, in your possession or not, the last thing your cellphone does is tell the nearest tower the cell's last location.
So smart design!

So I reloaded Lookout.
Removed McAfee, and their brassy but no use "device administrator".

Suggest you test any free Locate service, BEFORE you really lose that $400 cellphone!

"Blindspot" Highway WARNING!! If Your Front tire is next to My Rear tire, You Are in My BLINDSPOT for miles on the Highway!! Don't think You are My Wingman, GET THE HELL OUT OF THAT dangerous POSITION!!

It happened today on 101N, from SFO to almost x-Candlestick.
Some IDIOT thought he would just stay in that relative position.
For miles!!
And in a black car, poor visibility!!
And I've had a stiff neck for days.
So no , he was Not in my rearview mirror.
And I should have looked.
NEAR COLLISION!!

Beware of GOOGLE PLAY STORE !! NOT All Apps are REQUIRED to have an UNINSTALL option!! Therefore You might have an Unwanted App ,,, Forever and Ever!! Even if you've ask the App Developer!!

Ugh.
So much for promise of "Do no harm".

Martin's Beach, and now this lack of uninstall option issue.
Google, are you going to be just as Greedy and Selfish as Microsoft ?

BEWARE !! $50 Amazon Survey may look Very real, BUT TOTAL FRAUD !!

Do NOT open !!

Report Pishing !!

Problem: Hundreds of Curry Village, Yosemite Valley tent cabins are expensive, but only have a few green "Ma Curry" wool blankets per person. The Solution: Bring Winter warm sleeping bags or,,,Have all the tents easily wired from light bulb for an electrical outlet for ELECTRIC BLANKETS, from home or rented !!

My gal and I frozen one June in a snow storm, with sleeping bags and extra blankets!!

Want to help your fellow motorist, in NorCal? Call 911 on your cell if you see an accident, see a brakedown car by the side of the road, or see a wreckless driver. REPORT IT.

The 911 CHP dispatchers are mostly polite ,at least here in NorCal.
They may ask you to get off speakerphone.
And repeat 3 times. Or 4xs.
And ask for your real/pseudo name...
(I'm 'clark kent' a lot ;)

You will probably get some city dispatcher first.
Just keep asking , " IS THIS THE CHP ?"

Yes, it is legal to call 911 while driving ; Ask any cop.
Or you can have a companion call if you just want to drive.
Before they install cameras all over SF and the state highways, we good citizens should help other Californians in trouble on the roads.
It's simple easy and you will feel better! More human maybe.

Unless you can think of a better name, I call it, " the NorCal Chapter of Cal Cares by Callers of 911".
Yeah, you can do better.

Unfortunately, as a pro commercial driver, for decades I have been unable to get SoCal 911 CHP dispatchers interested or polite in ,"Hey , there is a huge multi-family accident on the 405, bloody bodies Everywhere!"

Apple stock may be Soaring, But Apple hides $Billions in Untaxed Profits Overseas, Depriving the USGOVT of $Millions in due Taxes !! So you like Rich Expensive Tax Cheats do ya!? Shocking.

IMy Sis has an iPhone; No big deal, and it is not "the best".
So go ahead, be another sheep, follow The Herd. Buy a Bm-er or a MBenz too. "baaa baaa baaa!"

I have the "Phone of the Year", the $340 on Amazon, ZTE Axon7.
Comes with a face skin and a clear 5-side bumper case.
I use an Anker backup battery.
One feature I really like is that there is no top or bottom to the power cord plug, no need to mark one, as with Samsung's connection.

Back to unpaid due Corporate taxes.
There are many "u.s." corporations hiding profits overseas; If there was a list, I would try to Boycott them all.
Just common thieves.
And you're abetting them?!
Talk about "stupid people"!!

It is bad enough that our State and Fed politician's votes are so easily bought, for as little as $10k in this State House and $20k in this State Senate.
Politician's don't seem to be embarrassed by this Corrupt practice.
That's how the Oil Industry skips paying over $2Billion Every Year in this , and only, State to Not have an "Oil Extraction Tax."
Caltrans Wasted over $6B on the massively flawed "new Oakland Bay Bridge."

Now you may think that Corp tax cheating doesn't matter.
Keep thinking that ,,, Every time you hit a pot hole in this Rich state.
Or as your Water rates by private ,for profit, water companies goes up , again and soon.
So PG&E may be advertising an 'apology' for Killing 8 and blowing up 38 nice homes in the San Bruno Gas Main Explosion, but our State politicians allowed them to raise their rates Twice versus pay out of their own pocket!!  That kind of thieving irresponsible Reputation never goes away, does it.

Wait till the next Recession/Depression, this year Weiss Report says, from the "Debt Bubble" to see if you "really don't care" about all these many Rich Corp tax cheats.
Or the Supreme Court ruling "citizens united" saying $ is votes.
Let's see when MILLIONS OF YOU  lose your jobs apts and Houses and any place to stay off the streets,,, if you really "don't care". Who you worry!?

Then you will truly be so Sorry for electing flippant trival Trump instead of a respected honorable person With values, like Dr. Jill of the Greens.

About now you are saying to yourselves "What Debt Crisis?"
We are so Busy working, earning...
Notice how US banks are still, still paying less than normal unfair interest, like 1% now on savings accounts?

Guess you better ask , huh?
"So WHAT Debt Crisis!?"

Fremont,Ca. was just Caught changing one major traffic light from 4.7sec yellow to 4sec yellow , citing Hundreds of Citizens, and in Their "end" only partially refunding $1000s in over $300/ticket !!

There is a logical solution to all this corrupt Cities revenue boosting, on law abiding taxpayers backs.
Oh, Fremont said, said they did it for "traffic control reasons".
If you live in a tiny, small, medium, or large city ,,,the Majority of voters can tell the Mayor or City Manager, "We want honest traffic lights with no doubt and not yellow late speeding, ticket boosting for revenue like Fremont(he was Dishonorably Discharged by President Lincoln, a Social Climber and Liar, John C. Fremont), therefore We the People demand COUNTDOWN YELLOW TRAFFIC LIGHTS installed at all stop lights within a year."
A much more certain ,Safer ,and less Taxing traffic light.

Sell the old uncertain used traffic lights to Mexico Canada or China. Whatever.

But put a proper End to the current flawed system of replacing flawed with flawed instead of improved !!

I know, some small cities only seem democratic, like Burlingame(a lawyer?! ick).
Notice the "standard" city parking lot concrete abutments/stop bars are scraping many expensive new lower cars, the Mayor said, "No, the standard size is not an inch too high. And it would cost too much to replace them all at once any way. So new ones will not be as needed,just you say, an inch or two shorter!"

Burlingame make $MILLIONS off hotel tax of Bay side highrise hotels, those poor "no taxation without representation!" fleeced tourists !!
So Who "can not afford it" ?
The much less democratic cities.
Real estate interests control this Mayor and most of City Council.
Gullible lazy uninformed stupid and "too busy" voters to boot !!

Let's see were democracy really lives in the USA!

Fellow Costco Shoppers: item # 10 99 42 6, Depends Mens Daipers are SO NOT RECOMMENDED, saggy-baggy and too tight narrow leg elastics.

There Must be a Better designed Brand,,, out there, somewhere!

Saturday 6 May 2017: NBC is doing a Great Job right now Showcasing the Kentucky Derby!!

Lots of our Fav NBC celebs, fun and we'll paced segments explaining all aspects, lots and lots of Fancy Hats, and 2 laughable pro horse betters that only talked horses and not riders-jockeys, the jokers, and completely missed Arklow's win #2 on the grass, With a great jockey!!

"Good job, NBC!!"
I didn't think you could do it.

And so much better than Fox's super stock cars going around in a little Podunk circle!

Republicans are well on their own way to Never being elected, Ever Again. I am so Happy about the Republican Party's self-destruction !!

How many times have they held the Federal budget hostage, close to Closing Govt, about 30 times !?

And reversing any Medical Care progress on coverage for pre-existing disease and such, is not just Greedy but Mean !!

They keep digging their own graves, with more "reagan"  massive tax cuts for the already super rich.

Weiss says the bond,debt Bubble is about to burst.
Without banks paying fair interest, stagnant wages, Cal and Oregon State laws against any more Rent Control, the attempted removal of pollution controls, the opening of everything like the entire Cal Coast and Arctic and entire East Coast to leaky offshore oil rigs, and the huge expansion in proposed coal mining,,, will certainly be the the secure coffin nails on All Republicans !!

Finally.
Horray !!

I am sooo very tired of "luxury" Acura slow car windows!

In the garage now,,,
Just want to Scream!

What is with this Odd Hot over 80F this time of year, Winter, in SF !??

Cold water upwelling on the coast from usual Aleutian NW winds, so where is the Fog, our "natural air conditioning"!?
Indian Spring!?  3 May 2017 broke all previous Hot Day records!!

A week, with no TV wx-peeps explanation,,,
And finally the fog comes back tonight, rolling like the thickest down comforter over the Coast Range hills!

Gosh, were We Hoodwinked by Congress about "Ethanol added to gasoline", just to jack up the price of Corn. Nothing about "Ethanol is bad for your car's engine!"

Now, how do we get ethanol out??

And lead out of jet fuel ??

And lead paint safely removed from,,, Everywhere!??

And asbestos removed??

And lead solder or lead water pipes removed ??

And keep coal with tainted Mercury buried underground??

And put the brakes on Roundup, gives us Cancer??

And ban and remove from the farm soils way too many untested Toxic farm chemicals that are slowly poisoning us All??

How?
With hairbrain Trump elected Prez???!

REVIEW of 2016 FORD TRANSIT 350 XLT, in may 2017,at SF.

I drive one of these every day at work,  since Jan2017.

GENERALLY,
much better ride and lower non-diesel noise level ,,,no vinyl seat covers than the Mercedes/Dodge "Sprinter". Preferred, but,,,

POWERTRAIN:
Old twin turbo is phased out for new single turbo "Eco-Boost" engine.
Regular aspirated engine-trany powertrain is Not Recommended because of  decades of Ford's redline loud  over-rev-ing accelerating in each gear.

BACKUP CAMERA:
Also, back up camera screen is way too small and Dark during daytime and fisheye too distorted, making it highly likely you will back into something or someone.

AIR CONDITIONER:
Also, for 80F weather, not yet 100F in Napa,,, the a/c is Totally Inadequate!!
Maybe the dealership mechanic did not add enough freon2. Maybe.  Huge problem.
But a dark paint van or even white van sitting in the mid day Winter sun with closed windows gets Way Too Hot and needs over 30 minutes in the shade to cool down with this very weak a/c.

RYDER RENTAL:
They upgraded the A/C and battery, etc. if you want to find out how to do the same.

STEERING WHEEL:
too sticky by far!

RADIO:
Also, the special, oversized Radio has already in 1 year begun to Malfunction.
Often takes 2 same button touches to change channels.
Don't like at all combo on-off and volume knob, when there is an unused button above the Up arrow for on-off!

SIRIUS:
NOT one full album station for classic rock or classical music. Very disappointed in 6,7, and 8 'on the 80s' with famous dj's , so mostly use 32 the bridge, 17 yacht music, 25 classic rock and 26. Margaritaville is not just Jimmy Buffet as it should be.
Wish screen would show not just song playing title on one station but scrolling all station's on 9 presets. But then the screen is way too small dark and forward, really horrible design.
Want a classical channel for each major composer like Handel,  Bach,  Beethoven, Vivaldi, Mozart, etc.
And at least 2 or 3 full album station's for rock of 60s, 70s and 80s playing complete album.
Otherwise, some songs are published but don't deserve play or excessive replay,  so have your radio preset options!
And Sirius website is a mess without good complete listing and description.  Lots of room for improvement in this Monthly Paid Service!

DIPSTICK:
The engine oil dipstick tube is Too Short, down by the valve covers ,,, or something.
Should be 10" Longer and higher, more forward design, dudes.
And the trany oil dipstick,,,?
Yikes!!

DASH GEAR DISPLAY:
Also on the dash, the Gear Selection letters are NOT SPACED APART,
"P  R  N  D  M" ,
but crammed,
"PRNDM", A Mess,
when there is plenty of room and a need for clear communication.

DASH CELLPHONE HOLDER:
right of steering wheel.

CLOTH GREY SEATS:
The cloth Seats Stain easily and should have been Scotchguard-ed.
Only the 2 front seats are Moveable. Even on the top of the line model, the backs seats can't individually be move Fore
and Aft.

UNLOADED, REAR DRIVE:
Going up steep gravel driveways is slippery because of appreciated rear drive, but usually light load on the Rear Axle.

TURN SIGNAL LEVER:
The Left side of steering wheel Turn Signal Arm is too sensitive; Touch it and it indicates even a light touch to turn vs having it only signal when fully shifted up or down.
This is a confusing Nuisance for all those Behind You ,Ford !!

ADD-ON LOWER TRAILER HITCH:
Scrapes driveways.
Should have been "designed into chassis" and Higher!
Not under mounted and too low.

HEADLIGHTS:
Could be brighter.
Headlight should be far right setting, if in a hurry,  then Automatic to Left... Not Auto on far right knob stop.
No dash indicator ON on Automatic,  so beware of dead batteries!  and the position indicator is too insignificant!, so make it more obvious please.

POWER PORTS:
Just  the flimsy cig-lighter  type,  no USB multi terminals all over.
Ford,  get with it!
Should have UBS multi ports all over versus those cheap short-lived cig-lighter power ports.

MANY CUP HOLDER RECESSES:
they are all too shallow for a standard size water bottle. Maybe  1" inch deeper would be OK.

No 2 SMALL FRONT FLOOR CARPETS:
My right heel is wearing a hole in the rubber flooring.

TWIN TURBO and TURBO:
but doesn't say so outside on the body.
How can Ford expect to sell and not Advertise!?

Why does SF allow Any company to have Only 1 standard portapotty for about 100 male and female employees, and without Any way to Wash your Hands, oh and only Serviced-pumped-cleaned MONTHLY instead of Weekly !? It is so Unhealthy !!

Public Health in SF needs to be a Much Higher Priority !!

ZTE may have "Phone of the Year", but Big Fat "F" for Customer Service !! Contact Android instead.

Twice,, ZTE has Failed to Reply ,when they said they would.

COSTCO $50 SURVEY OFFER IS BOGUS !! Beware !!

Just called Costco Corp in Seattle.

Wouldn't it be Nice if they Email Warned All of U.S.??

Google!!, Just stop Harassing me EVERY MINUTE with Your Annoying popups about me forgetting my Gmail ADDRESS !!

STOP IT !!

When I get home I will look it up.
Every minute,,,?!!!!!

YOU ARE REALLY PISSING ME OFF !!

God, do i Hate the SF Giants !!

Build a new ballpark at at Major freeway off ramp, and they use to close the off ramp, King Street !!
Like they are the Only Game town !!
Now they close lots of streets around the cursed  ballpark, like Francoise along the Bay  and South Street,one way!!, in the middle of the sprawling UCSF Medical Campus !!

It's just baseball.

Wait till the Warriors build Their Stadium just South of the Giants !!

And UCSF builds more and more high rises !!

What are you going to do SF, Close all city streets, because Caltrain and 3rd street Streetcars and DPT directing traffic can't handle the Expected CROWDS !!??

What happens when the big parking lots South of the Giants are Removed !?

Talk of taking highway 280 out, for more High Rise Developers!!

It isn't even Spring-Summer-Autumn TOURIST SEASON yet,,,

As i said,SF can not Even handle the crowd  for one giant's baseball game,with many street closures and DPT Not Helping !!
GRIDLOCK !!

God, Do I Ever Hate the orange and black, sf giants, for getting sf to make this TRAFFIC NIGHTMARE, just for one lousy baseball game !!
Ruin my drive, will ya!?
I'm at work now, stuck in GRIDLOCK.

(My little curse worked!!; The LA "how big is too big" Dodgers beat the pampered ,notsogreat sf giants.). ;)

Google "Blogger" lets you write a piece in "Drafts" but does not AUTOMATICALLY save it if you leave "Blogger"!!

What a nuisance !!

Fellow Costco Shoppers: item #11 21 701, Kirkland Signature Men's Boxer Brief, 4 pack is ,,,Not Recommended. Do not keep shape , with only 4% spandex.

Buy the other ones.
Adidas, maybe.

Be aware that Champions DO KEEP THEIR SHAPE, BUT run small, so if you are a 38"-40" , get the next size up. Or suffer a too tight waistband!

Mircosoft(Hotmail,Live, and Outlook) today told me the Reason they do not put the full Sender's Email Address on every email is because,,, get this,,,"There is not enough room." Ha!

Such b.s.
And they know it's b.s.

But what about your Expensive PC tower /  $$$ smartphone's Safety and Security ? Or your laptop ??

Do you use McAfee?
Do you use Norton?

I just re-logged my new ZTE AXON 7 by doing a Clear/"factory reset" 4 times !!

My dear old Mom allowed india HP csr access to her new defective inkjet printer, and computer, altho she felt uneasy about it.
It took a Techie 40hrs or 5 full days to get that Bad Bug out of her Big Custom built PC.
HP in Palo Alto denied "any responsibility."

So, does MSN like an insecure inefficient out of date and mediocre internet experience, and that Mess is why they don't as a rule show the Sender's Full Email Address, all the time ?

More open immigration side is saying how much foreign-born new Citizen bring of value to the USA. Let's see, by the foreign-born Bosses i have worked for in SF.

A Japanese American boss told me to clock in every day.
I did. None of the Asian employees did. They laughed at me doing it, early every day. No problem.
But then this boss told me repeatedly, as only white guy, "You Alway late!!" I showed early time card. Did not matter.
I quit and went elsewhere less hostile to native white Americans.
Hell, the Japanese racism is nothing compared to history of U.S. slavery and on going racism and in black hoods,reverse racism!

Next, I have worked for 2 iran immigrant brothers. For over 5 years they stole over $10k each year from me and many others in unpaid regular pay and unpaid overtime pay and stolen tips. 8 major labor violations, including forged federal documents, the Fed judge said; but they basically got away with all those years of many employee wage robbery and fled, retired to Florida to build mansions.
This is piddling compared to Wall Street's Bernie Madoff.
Look at all the offshore tax havens where U.S. rich profitable corporations like Apple hide $Billions from fair taxation. Like Grand Cayman,etc.!!
Authur Anderson ,the big accounting firm, was world famous for taking huge fees to intentionally defraud the U.S. Govt. and America!!
As one middle manager told me in the limo, "Any CPA can do honest accounting for a small fee. Arthur Anderson firm makes huge profits by bending to breaking U.S. tax law and getting away with it. So my wife and I are shopping for a mansion second home, looking all over the world."

I had a Swiss owner who hired me.
Right away he confessed, " i take all your Overtime pay and just pay straight regular pay after 8 hours to 16 or 18 hours,whatever. It is totally illegal, but most charter and tour bus companies in SF and the SFBayArea are doing it and getting away with it. I have to be competitive. Now one driver just took me to Small Claims Court and showed his only hand written , straight time payroll record, and won all back OT pay, plus interest and penalty, and you can do the same. I am a a multimillionaire. And being punctual is the most important thing in business ! We have a great charter and tour bus reputation and many famous clients."
Yikes, thanks a bunch, Switzerland, for 3 years !!
He sold the company for "over twice its worth" and I moved on, to another payroll stealing limo company in Burlingame.
If you go to Switzerland, beware of the luxury Zurich lake side hotel and front desk clerk who will palm your c/c on check in, with your Passport, and then go all over W. Europe spending $8000 . Zurich cops won't help you. And Visa will tell you "that agent does not work for us" but Visa did know it was their cheap and incompetent night time subcontractor who goofed and did not immediately close my account. It took months of Visa phoning and emailing threats at me for me to learn this. No apology from Visa.
Just "business".
Why is wage theft and work racism so very common in SF ?

What happened to "tight right" car door locks!? No politician ever asked me about changing to "open rearward"!!

I'm mad as hell, and not going to be abused like that anymore !!

Burlingame and San Mateo city voters believed their Mayors and City Councils that "Any rent control would ruin this city!" Big Fat Lies, but it worked, this time.

The League of Women Voters did a Candidate discussion before the last election. Video filmed it.
God bless the League !!

Most candidates in Burlingame confessed they were sponsored and primarily representing Realtors first and, after lying to get elected, Not representing the best interests of their electorate.

Better informed and generally smarter and Much More Civilized Mountain View, and Alameda, and Richmond voters chose Rent Control. Even San Jose improved its Rent Control. And Rent Control is very popular , with renters and leasers, in San Francisco. Did you not see and not care about those 70 and 80 year old widows in Burlingame on the curb after getting 3 day eviction notices for no cause/fault ??

Maybe you missed it.
Go to the LWV website on a computer and become better informed Voters, for the next election !!
You owe it to the community.

SF has a long history of rough bumpy trenched asphalt over concrete streets. The 311 city repair staff readily admit this. But the City and Mayor Lee won't asphalt repave "too little used streets" like Hariett by the courthouse, nor "too heavily used streets" like Toland in the SE Quarter, the Mayor wants to Gentrify and attract neuvo-riche to this neglected street condition and High crime area.

Let's see, when was the last major snafu fubar costly mistake in SF City and County combined govt , delayed year after year, decade after decade, Postponed Maintenance history?

Oh, yeah, it was the well know fact of too old and too brittle cast iron fire hydrant water main pipes in the very affluent Marina district.
Then, the OCTOBER 1989 earthquake, a 7.1richter , happened;  Too old cast iron easily breaks and no adequate supply of fire fighting water to many burning apartments.
People died. Lots of personal property was destroyed. Watch it on You Tube. What a huge preventable disastrous result. Many buildings were finally bolted to their foundations. And instead of one neglected rusty old fireboat with a sloppy hand painted "for sale" sign that pumped Sacramento River water out of the Bay and saved the Marina, the City now has a few newer fireboats parked near the Bay Bridge.

SF could be much better maintained, from too rough streets all over to too few highly paid cops everywhere on the streets. To more night time, high visibility, white on green, Street signs. To way too few public parking garages that are affordable all over the city. Is underground parking at De Young direction signed enough? To still too inefficient litter and trash collection.
Much more often Health Dept posted inspections of all restaurants. Sidewalk cleaning thankfully is on the rise. And faster graffiti removal.
And it isn't that SF can't afford to do better.

I've been a Teamster 4 times, with higher salary but Rampant Corruption and self-serving by Teamsters.

Last time as a SFO-hub , UPS delivery driver about 20 years ago.
The private co. stock buying manager told me to drive in Winter rains without computer way back then and With 3 thin, Lincoln penny test, tire treads; the Teamsters were no help. Often in the Xmas rush and if you were a little late the day before, the nightshift loaders and managers would "toss" your load leaving a huge messy pile more than half filling the brown truck; Again, Teamsters Union was no help. UPS would give you painful crude rough cloth uniform to start and fire you for one mistake; Again ,no help from Teamsters. Drivers are now allowed to buy stock ,since the co. went public with a huge IPO. Every Teamsters meeting seemed about more theft and misuse of dues, even from the SF hub !!

The first time was as a Yosemite National Park shuttle and tour bus driver , way back in the 1970s. We had a very abusive dispatcher, Joe Westmoreland, and a very abusive company as lead/major park Concessionaire in MCA after the Curry Family sold out.  The 2 greasy weasel Teamsters Union reps from the Central Valley ,when asked for enforced fair work rules, told us all to "sit down and shut up! ! We do Not represent you ! You will do exactly as we say and you will be lucky to get anything, and may lose, during this Negotiation period !" They went over to the main office by the Village Store and had cocktails with mgmt and a good laugh at us, our spy said. MCA sold C. rights to horrid Delaware North of New York who kept the names "Ahwahnee" Hotel and "Curry" Village, by NPS incompetence!  Now DN-NY has sold to Aramark, the company kicked out of Muir Woods National Monument for very unsanitary food cafe practice of guest food and floor litter handling without gloves or hand washing! Atrocious !

The Feds took over the Teamsters for very good reason; Unfortunately for all Teamsters workers, it did not clean up the Teamsters Union, at all.

Hiya at Google's Play Store does not have an UNINSTALL option, so if you DOWNLOAD Hiya caller I. D.,,, You may be Stuck with it,,, FOREVER!! and Google troubleshooting guy says "Google is OK with that." Thus, PLAY STORE is Not a Safe Place.

Most apps have an UNINSTALL option.
Hiya does not have one,  or an icon to slide to UNINSTALL, and is not listed with all your other "smartphone" apps.

And Google is fine with this.
Their representative said "Some people may really like Hiya and never want to uninstall it."
And "we are not responsible for what we offer on Google Play Store."

YIKES!!

NO MINIMUM STANDARDS.
BEWARE of Google Play Store!!

Fellow Costco Shoppers: item # 144893, EL MONTEREY Shredded Steak and Three Cheese BURRITO frozen ,,, have tough chewy Gummy flour tortillas, and need to be IMPROVED pronto !!

I think the Mfg  can solve this minor problem.
I'm not buying any more ,,,
Until they do.
And again, Costco should have Higher food standards for taste ,safety, and value.

Why does SOCIAL SECURITY hide your legally taxed And illegally untaxed WORK HISTORY for decades from EVERY WORKING EMPLOYEE ??

It should be easy and safe to see in full online.

Cal CalTrans is LIABLE for POTHOLE FLAT TIRES !! So People!, Submit the form and bills!!

Caltrans needs to hire MUCH BETTER highway asphalt CONTRACTORS !!

I wish Sacramento would prohibit realtors from trying to represent both sides, the seller and buyer. It can not ethically be done.

I never feel served if dealing with the lying Seller's real estate agent.
And you?

TOILET SHOPPING CLASS, "bonehead" 30A

First, get a glazed trap.
That's the crucial S-curve below the toilet bowl.
How do you know it is glazed? You put your hand down the new, dry, clean unused toilet and feel below the bowl!  Is it rough ,,, or smooth as the bowl?
Why is this so important? Because unglazed toilet bowl "traps" will clog up much More often than glazed ones. Yes, even Home Depot tries to fob-off unglazed toilet trap toilets, so beware !!

Second, get the Widest trap you can find, as there is a big difference brand to brand, of even an inch or half an inch.  Same reason,,, do you want to be toilet plungering and snaking and mopping,,, or not ,,, weekly or daily ?

Third, get the Adult size toilet and a good brand like Gerber,,, not a child's/"family" 2 inch lower toilet. Have your kids use a short wide step. Ask any gerontologist MD worth a crap and they will say "adult size" for adults,,,

Fourth, shop around.
Usually the cheap Glacier and Kolher are out front.
Ask, "Where do you hide the better brands, like Gerber?"
Try a pro installer store, if you are brave and smart enough, like R.V. Cloud in SillyCon Valley. I got a few of the last 1.6 cu ft flush Gerbers, in the far back warehouse before the nuisance Feds banned them;They should have banned unglazed traps! but didn't do the smart thing, as usual.

Fifth, buy oval rim toilet bowls, not round rim ones, unless you want men peeing down the front and on your floor. All the time. Think about it.

Sixth, use a good flexible hose with woven metal mesh outside to connect to the water supply, not some cheap rigid jointed metal pipe, Especially in earthquake country, like the Pacific Rim.

Seventh, if you poop big try double flushing the poop first and then the TP.
If your are still worried about plugging a toilet, squirt some dish soap, left in the bathroom, just inside
the rim.

Eight, you may have tree roots growing in your house to street drain/sewer line, slowing the flow. Find out where all your kitchen sink and bathroom drains go and have them snaked annually or biannually but at least every 3 years. Remember plumber snakes can not go thru a 90 degree turn, so if you have only one cleaning access you might have never really had your house line cleared out or snaked all the way to the street sewer. And don't trust most plumbers to tell you if you do have a 90 degree drain problem as my parents were lied to for over 40 years by many plumbers who promised they had snaked "all the way to the street" and charged extra for it,but in truth never got past the 90 degree drain turn on the far side of the house. We eventually found a very rare honest plumber and we dug the hole and he put the second cleaning access in and for the very first time cleaned the house drain all the way to the street sewer line!!

Beware of overflowing toilets wetting and rotting the cross-direction 2 subfloors, as that is an expensive repair.
Beware any plumber who say "The subfloor is totally rotted and the thick metal circular mounting flange has turned to flakes of rust, so I'm just going to screw,,, a thin cheap metal flange on top of the totally rusted thick one and leave it like that." Quickly escort that Fool out of your house or condo or apt.!!
Beware of any plumber or tradesperson or "handyman" who shows up with a dirty messy truck with dirty uncared for tools and a pile of parts; in fact ,ask to look at his truck and tools First! and if his tools are clean and well cared for and his truck is organized, only Then would I let him ,with bootie covers, into My home!!

This is some of the basics.
I hope it helps.
If you are too ignorant and or stubborn to take good free advice,,,

REI was politely asked to remake their soft glass case for smartphones, my Great idea, but "no thanks" was the reply.

Cellphones and smartphones need simple to use protection.
Can't REI see the demand and supply void?

Sunbeam "warming electric blankets": HUGE made in China QC PROBLEMS, read the website reviews "blanket stopped working after 2 months!"

CS is sooo slooow.
On my second return, in only 2 years.
And Company is replacing woven blankets with fury "plush" slippery blankets that refuse to stay on your bed, no matter how layered.

No LiveChat.
No point emailing.
Sent wrong blanket.
Out of stock problems.
Big QC chinese problems, like with Apple refusing to replace chinese corroded new laptop, on day of purchase, unless you bought long term warranty.
No Weekend phone service.
And agents are Sooo Slooow !!
Horrible company !!

Every PBS show should have an Easy "public comment" ,open website !!

I wrote KQED and got an off-putting arrogant unhelpful response to a cooking show I just watched with the "teaching chef" always using too long a knife!
It is less controlable and more unsafe, I think.
My mother and sisters also have this bad habit of using the same a 8-10" blade, for everything!
Jaques doesn't do it.

So I stumbled around Google search and finally found "Joanne Weir's Cooking Confidence Show" feedback on joanneweir.com...

No answer yet, but I have seen this too long a knife issue on other PBS shows.
Regret KQED was so unhelpful...

Safe and healthy cooking!!

little Adventures,,,

When i was no more than 12 my master craftman Dad took me backpacking with him and his hunting-ab diving buddy, Blackley, on a circle for a week ending with the scary trail up Mt. Whitney,14k'+, and lots of trout fishing. Met a newly wed with new boots and massive blisters, 'Sierra Sue', so we carried her pack on Dad's homemade fat bike tire 'iron mule' of hinged hi grade aluminum. So much fun. And so few know how to enjoy true wilderness.
So sad, the concrete asphalt life.

Blackley intentionally dropped his lead slab weight belts abalone diving near state Park over-managed ,closed beach and water for research only, bad joke of a state park Ano  Nuevo Bay; So much better protected by farmer Steele who kept abalone rot disease away that the state failed.
He told me to freedive over 30' to get it for him.
Poor visibility, maybe 6', but I found it, and kicked flippers hard to the surface to big snorkel spout!  So much fun and yet many most almost all have never appreciated NorCal's underwater kelp forests. So sad. Or facemask peered into a rich tidepool. So sad.

Was in Oxford and the Bobby's girl asked me to kayak to Henley for a local charity, in one day.
Sure!
She got the hard keel long straight running touring kayak with a rudder and I got the short round bottom slalom whitewater kayak.
She couldn't wait for my squirrelly kayak and went ahead, so I went thru all the locks solo, meeting a few nice folks at the many locks but basically years ago the famous Thames River was all mine. So much fun. Such beautiful countryside, without Cal's poison oak coast and foothills or many poisonous rattlesnakes. Wonderful day.
Met the tall world famous crew rower in the fish&chip shop behind me,after. What a day. Yet so few even do this little tiny small Adventure. So sad.

Walked the gentle lead mine hills of the Yorkshire Dale's out of Gunnerside for a week. Lots of racing weekend motorcycles. Some walkers, but again I had most of the Dale's to myself, the fab pheasants and many rabbits, and a few very low morning Brit fighter jets. So fun. And so few get out of their cars and off roads to enjoy it. So sad.

Rowed the Lake District with my gal. Hiked it for miles and miles, picking up trash from dry stone wall holes until I filled a huge black trash bag with National Trust land walker's litter using salad tongs,from some Woolworth.  So much fun. Snuck it into a pub loo as the trash can outside said "private, bugger off" or something. Dashed for rental car with my gal and got away clean. Such a great day. Too bad only a few actually go out and enjoy it. Or pick up litter in England.  So sad.

Walked up the highly rounded backside of Half Dome in an easy day many times in Yosemite Valley.
Now you need a reservation!
Gloves and short 20' kernmantel rope in case someone fright-freezes on the cables, happens. So exciting. What a great day.
First time as a High Schooler and Boy Scout. And most people don't even know it is there.

Was asked if I wanted to motor-sail the Cal coast from LA to SC during grey whale migration.
Yes.
What an adventure with the best Cal skipper and my Dad.
So lucky.
And so few have seen so much of the Cal coast, from the Pacific.
So sad.

25 and back from Nixon's birthday lottery ,4yrcollege, 2yr cruise to godforsaken Vietnam.  A friend asks,  "Do you want to bicycle this Summer, maybe up and across Canada?"
Sure. Why not.
His bro too, the 3 sprocket-teers having a small Adventure. A semi driver in southern BC tried to swerve over us, with no bike lane and no guard rail to the cliff.
The RCMP came out ," Oh, you're not Canadians." Bye.
Met lots of friendly folk tho, sleeping on the ground or in dirt cheap hostels.
We made it to Saskatoon and Montreal, greyhounding across "blackflies!!!" Ontario to Ottawa and bicycling like Cal Conquers into Ville Quebec in a heavy rainstorm. So much fun for 3 months. Only one Canadian tried to kill us.
And we saw so few bicyclists, except going South with the constant wind on the Cal coast. So sad so few get out and enjoy the countryside.

I use to park on hwy 40, old Donner Summit. Take my Holdsworth touring soft frame bicycle down and bike down to Donner Lake. Then along the Truckee River to Lake Tahoe and clockwise around the lake, back to Tahoe City.
Then follow the Truckee back to Donner Lake and the old highway up to older Donner Pass and my parked car. Easy, fun. Did it every year, for years. No bike lane.
I'm 6'2" so if someone tried to hit me with their car then I would try to make the biggest dent in their car, maybe even break their windshield before I died.
Every year, such an adventure. And never a flat tire. Lucky me. Seldom saw another bicyclist. Had the far right edge of the hiway all to myself. Most drivers back then we're respectful and careful, unlike nowadays. So sad.

Have a little Adventure.

California does Not have Mandatory disclosure of lead pipes in house sales. Why lie?

Shame on Sacramento!!

Google Map won't allow Reviews of Condo hi-rises or Apartment buildings! If that isn't the Most Anti-Consumer, Radical Rightwing Conservative bilge !!

Google should be ashamed.
Big time.

Most people's Big Blind Faith in Tech is a Mistake.

Look at all the new but recalled, from Tanaka air bags exploding schrapnel to new but defective and closed Nuclear Plants worldwide.

My friend has a Honda minivan several years old, but without a transmission oil cooler! and the oil filter was misdesigned inside the trany, not outside. He has replaced the trany twice under warranty !!

New "smartphones" and new laptops are attacked successfully ,,, all the time.

Women most often choose the Wrong too long knife !! Why use a 12" carving knife on a pint of Cherry Garcia ??

And risk cutting your fingers hand and arm off ?!

Even with the improvements of Obama Care, Guess who is the Primary owner of your personal medical records? Hint: it isn't the Patient.

As a result of this profit before care USA medical model, my medical records are scattered all over Ca., taking up file space in x-doc's and x-hospital offices and basements, doing me No Good.

We need to change this.

Simply: Why you should Not buy Kaiser health/medical insurance. Your Kaiser doc may not care enough for you to get the Vaccine and Not Suffer for weeks with Shingles.

My older Sister, a richly pensioned retired public school 2nd grade teacher.
(She lost $10k s by believing "insurance sharks" of hi commish=low quality 403b products vs low commish=high quality 403b products.)
It was the adults that were so Hard, a Principal who ordered her to be a Mover every year and move Everything, all the school district PROPERTY teaching material from one class room to another for no good reason, just power-tripping college educated women to really break their backs in spite of the weak Teachers Union(Do teachers in CA. start salaries at over $40k, for a charter bus driver with no college? No. Does the Teachers Union make these Principals hire Movers instead of abusing skilled professional valuable public school teachers? No.
Does the Teachers Union teach teachers how to read their huge 403b pension pre-tax savings Quarterly Statement, so at the very least they know a (-) is Not a "credit" but a mutual fund LOSING principle investment and dividends !? No. Does the Teachers Union protect teachers from being ordered by Principals and Deans to help Administer by being put, against their will, on various School Committees, that are Not teachers primary job? No.)

The kids were easy and fun in very poor Huntington Park, mostly Mex kids constantly leaving an ok school to live on the South side of the border and working on the North side of the border, totally disrespecting that it was and is the USA's National border. Political cheap labor pool.
She had a quality medical plan like Pacific Care or better when we were both working in the 1980s; But now she's retired and retired teachers are like retired soldiers, veterans that don't deserve much.

So she bought Kaiser, knowing it wasn't as good as what she had when she was WORKING, making over $80k after over 30yrs with Terrible LAUSD adults and pre-tax 403b teacher saving $12k plus every year, thus making IRAs and 401k look like something for foolish teenagers, not serious saving adults.

As a school bus driver, UPS before-computers driver, Frisco beer truck-loved driver, limo and or charter bus,tourist season driver, all my benefits have been taken away by super greedy bosses, even Kaiser medical insurance.
So my boss paid very high monthly Kaiser premiums and I too co-paid Kaiser high monthly premiums. Now I just have the shameful, intern testing ground zero of the V.A., from being drafted in college by Nixon for foolish Vietnam wasting war.

Older Sister got Shingles first.
No amount of money, salary or savings is going to make Shingles less painful or go away.
Other than injecting heroin.(joke)
Yes, it is that painful.
Her Kaiser doc did Not give her the usual reliable vaccine.
So she was paying Kaiser huge Individual premiums, And suffering a very easy to prevent disease !!

My Kaiser doc also didn't care that I had kid's chicken pox and was over 50 and had not been vaccinated against Smallpox.
So I called asap and asked, "Can I buy a Shingles vaccine shot?"  Sure, come on over.

And that is why I say Kaiser is piss poor medical/health insurance, and Very Expensive.

DEPENDS DIAPERS: Too hot and sweaty,even on a cold day ! NOT RECOMMENDED !!

Fit is funky too.
RATHER  UNCOMFORTABLE.
There has got to be a Brand better than this !!

Recommend wearing old underwear next to your skin.
Either toss/wash.
Much more comfortable.

Costco item # 1103619, "Harry's Beef Stroganoff with Noodles" is Not Recommended.

Not nearly enough noodles; Buy more wide egg noodles or ribbed rigatoni or bowties.
Needs lots of salt and pepper seasoning.
And I got the runs!

PBS and CHARLIE ROSE tv show: Please put guest's name on tv guide and on bottom of tv screen.

Not all of us are "know-it-alls" !!

Cindy William's tv show: mean-spirited Gossip. Ick.

I will never watch such trash tv again.

"Everquote" is un-satisfactory,,, Don't waste your time.

Tried it.
Not competitive to low insurance prices at CSAA and Nationwide Mutual, a non-profit.

Forget all the hype.

BEWARE!! Starting today, sfpd is CITATION-giving to EVERY CAR ON THE 600 BLOCK of MARKET STREET !!

Hear MISSION Street is next.

BEWARE !!
MOVING VIOLATION=VERY EXPENSIVE !!

Dr.Martens, hides "SHOE CARE" products option, behind "MENS" and "CLOTHING & ACCESSORIES". Why?

Also wish they made a WIDE size. Or 2.
Why not??

And it really rained on the West Coast this, 2016-2017, Winter !!
Not one of TV new wx folk are telling inches,,,or feet!,,, of usual "Annual Rain Fall" out here.

I got lucky; Was passing time waiting for co-worker, so strolled Ross. Under stocked,,,
Found "size 12" shelf,,,
And there were these black waterproof men's dress shoes with really tacky leather and that special non-slip map sole!

Under $40 !??!
Tried them on, no Width size, so silly "all people get one Width" sizing !!
(I use to sell hand made Italian boots for 2 years, Pivetta's, some of the very best, like the super famous, more Famous than Dr.Martens, the Muir Trails. MANY WIDTHS and very affordable in the 1970s ;)

So bought them.
Will wear a thin sock. Or two.
Will treat inside leather with usual LEXOL, Big brown liter jug that I usually buy at OSH.
GREAT stuff, all leather conditioner, and Cheap-AFFORDABLE !!
As I read a "pricey" and "sponge takes up too much room in container", hate deceptive packaging!, and "sponge doesn't last very long".

Using LEXOL today,once a year, on my leather collar Levi denim jacket I have had for decades.
And my Dad's hand-me-down brown leather jacket.
I so regret not buying that great black leather long,butt covered jacket... in that famous sf store..
Oh well.

Early this week, it SNOWED in Saratoga!! So COLD this Winter and so WET none of the tv wx folk will give Annual&Rain Year Totals for SF and SJ and Sac.

Is there a news blackout going on about West Coast weather??

Time to Junk BART and Aim much higher in Design.

Cleaner problems, again!
Mgmt wants all new tracks and all new cars.
And ticket increase.

All I want is this crappy ,worse than mediocre system scraped.
Have a Design Contest.
Start over

Tiny TATE'S NY chocolate chip cookies,,,are the WORST !!

ick

The TSA is failing, as high as 95% of the time, to keep guns and knives off commercial airplanes.

It is this a huge waste of time and tax dollars.
What are we going to do instead!?
And when!?

California must make full amends for the National Disgrace of forced unauthorized Sterilization, like N. Carolina. It is heinous that some churches still misinterpret the Bible and promote,still in 2017, the secret sterilization of individuals by MDs in licensed hospitals because you are found to have engaged in premarital sex and one abortion. Shame on these churches and Governor Jerry Brown, recently busted by the media for dirty oil industry deals.

Same goes for blacklisting in California; Yes, in 2010's it still happens and individuals are kept from working for more than a year in certain industries, like the Movies in the McCarthy years and Tourism now, because you might have taken your employer to the State Labor Commissioner for stolen wages. And legally won.

It, both, have happened to me in the SF Bay Area. Recently.

Does this not charge all good churches and all good people to do right in California?
I challenge all good churches and all good people to stop and confess permanently the horrible social injustices nowadays of secret doctor and hospital Sterilization and industry wide Blacklisting in California.

And gag order secret Court "Settlements"; We the Public must be informed of every injustice and widespread law breaking like common wage theft currently in California.
This is shameful ,a cover-up to protect rich companies, and little or no justice in forced "settlements".

Why do so many young attractive U.-educated high salary WOMEN SNEAK OUT OF THEIR LOVER'S BED IN THE MORNING???

It is extremely common in the USA.
But ,,, why?

Why can't most American women talk about this, not just to their girlfriends and shrink, but to their partner-lover-'only one' ??

It is a terrible tragedy. And so very common.
So many 'romances' and 'affairs' and 'true loves' blighted by so many smart ,good family, intelligent, high salary Women.

Most Men don't do this, and i certainly don't like it!
And , yes, i have complained and verbalized to no avail.  Why ?
i would prefer to be kissed , or at the very least told 'good morning', if that is not too much to ask of the person that you have chosen to live your life with over your parents and family, for now and maybe forever.

Is it Women's 'alone time'?
Shower alone, dress alone, eat alone,,,
Do most Women have a load of doubt, never shared?
Do they really know what love is, since we don't see our parents do it usually, just 'in the movies'??
Maybe Women , most, are just not sociable or sexual in the morning.
Or even romantic in the morning.
Women are such a silent mystery !!
Or do they all just wait until it is ,,, over, and too late,,,? 
Such is true tragedy.

Why do most of SF tourist expect so little, unlike most french , from mostly SUBSTANDARD SF REDTAURANTS !?

Was talking with a Corp traveler.
Food average standard is Much higher in NYC than SF, but neither of us want to live there again.

And the general food standard is Much higher still in Paris, if you can stand the selfishness phonies and mercenary unfriendliness !!

Why?

Sunday 5march2017, and hail Twice this morning on the SF Peninsula ,San Mateo County !!

That is how COLD this Winter has been in the SFBayArea !!

Virgin Limo: Don't apply to work there !!

Virgin?
Why not?

Drivers don't get tipped; So unnatural !!

Most Charter bus companies in SF area ask for an included Gratuity, that limo and bus companies regularly steal , in their hands, versus driver's.

ALWAYS TIP waiters and charter bus drivers DIRECTLY please !!

Driver are told to "fuel on your time not Virgin Limo company time."

Drivers in nice suits, clean white shirts and ties, and dress shoes are told in SSF,Ca. to "wash that Ford towncar on your own time" regularly.
There was no typical Mex. nightly wash crew, as at most limo, tour or charter bus companies.

Virgin Limo drivers near SFO are told to "standby in the (dumpy) drivers room,,, on your own time."

Why would so many already Rich people cheat working poor limo and charter drivers out of their common and customary tips !?

Why would any good driver continue to work for such a company !?

Why would any customer hire such an ODDBALL underpaid limo company !?!?

Crrrrazy!

Why isn't there a SKIER'S TRAIN from Sacramento to Donner Pass And Truckee!? Highway 80 has been closed FOR DAYS this winter. Snow clearing has not always been Expertly done, with cars being damaged and even ground up !

We ,dependent on clean profitable tourism , need the California Coast passenger trains back, the luxury Daylight and the deluxe nightly Lark of the 1960s with first class dining cars and sleeper cars and wonderful all-black Porter's.

AMTRAK stinks!! ,on rented bumpy freight tracks !! Way too many deceptive "bus connections"!!

An expensive fast train in the Super polluted by pesticides and untested unhealthy chemicals San Joaquin Valley of boring crop scenery is A TOTAL WASTE OF TAX DOLLARS !!

We need a TV documentary to get people out of cars and Back on passenger only modern rails, without all the Big 4 fraud and Fed. tax dollar and land giveaway !!

Asked KQED,Ch9 Newsroom to be the one tv news service in the SFBayArea to tell us, finally, what the ANNUAL RAINFALL TOTALS ARE, daily like all stations did before the 4 year Droight; KQED is still not telling us!! News local Blackout like 1976's famous "Summer of Love"!!

KQED donors must be so Proud.
So Proud.
The TV station they give $1000s and $Ms to is witholding VALUABLE INFORMATION. Again.
They could have been giving to clean up their front yards, the Bay.
Why hide these facts/data?
Why not show us the true SNOW PACK at Soda Springs-Donner Pass, like they commonly use to??
Why all this obfuscation about 12:1 ratio, deceptive and less important to skiers SNOW FALL vs practical SNOW PACK ??

All the TV wx folk said we would have 'la nina' severe flooding the previous 2 years; But that did not happen. They were All wrong!!
This has been the Coldest and Wettest Winter in decades, but no one in tv Media will tell us the on-the-ground true stats.

So who is behind this "Don't Tell Annual Rainfall totals or 1 Oct. Rain Year totals??
Obama?
Tainted Governor Jerry Brown?
President 'humpty' Trump?
Bankers?
The U.N.??
Who?

And... Why?

SF is now "the most Expensive City IN THE WORLD to live in. That means, "Tipping for Good Service at restaurants, limos and charter/tour buses IS NOT OPTIONAL !!

I have driven a charter bus for 5 years in SF for $20/hr with NO RAISE IN 5 YEARS, while the owner got $65M cash to sell the company.

My rent is Skyrocketing, now at $2050 for a 1900-built 4 story, old 1 bedroom apt with inadequate wiring, can't run toaster and microwave in the tiny kitchen.

Please respect Commercial, class B, drivers as it is very hard to get that license with air brakes and with pax endorsement.

The rich and successful, we need you to "Do Your Part" and help this 805,000 small community of SF, please !!

Chase Bank in California PUBLICLY OFFERED $300 to switch your Savings and Checking Accounts to them. But only paid "$200" !! How do these banks get away with such flagrant robbery!?

Bank of the West even had the bill counting machine unplugged and in a back storeroom!
They seemed to care more for local business accounts than my $75,000 in savings, so I moved.
The cutie officer then said "I will pay you $300 to come back."
The catch, had to ungrade to paid accounts!!
Boo, BotW !!

Boo, Chase!!

Why do good family, smart, beautiful, U. educated, high income Hot young lawyer women just want to have a nightly swim at AquaticPark and night or three intimacies/week, but don't want to talk, or share their feelings hopes plans dreams , past wispering "i love you" !?

I only make about $40k, so I didn't think she would want to marry me.

I was never invited to her work, a very powerful law firm and very high floor office in downtown SF.

I never met any of her friends or family, and on her side , she never talked about work, friends, or family.
I blab and disclose my whole life!
Sing along with the radio horribly to my loves. And try to tell them how Wonderful they are and how lucky I am !!

Maybe I was her first. A lesbian?
And she just didn't know how she felt or how to save an "I love you" relationship. I did feel significant to her. Unlike the rebound woman or the unfeeling, limp attractive woman. Or the artist who bedded me just to put me down loudly afterwards with her girlfriends.

I never cheated on her or even thought about it.
If she had asked me to move in or talked about having kids or meeting her friends or meeting her parents, I might not have gone to Western Europe for 3 months.
She didn't call or write me,,, so, Big Sigh, I thought we were over. I didn't want our love affair to end.
It was very hard to write that "fair well" letter; And she did not reply.
I loved her as best I could.
If I had asked, "Will you marry me?", I fear she would have said no, because of my low pay that made my boss a multimillionaire.

I met a young attractive French woman who said I was her "movie star look-alike husband to be" and I should meet her parents, visit her again next year, after she visited me!
Talk about motivated!
Well, it was all an elaborate 3yr con-job to get a U.S. passport and 18 years alimony and child support !!
She borrowed a handsome man to be her "father" and borrowed a very nice small modern house to be her "family home". All lies.
What a gullible fool I was!!
I caught her lying about "wearing our diaphragm", but she was "already pregnant", she then told me.
So beware of women that are too interested, also!!

I do apologize to just all these Wonderful women for my bad choices, but approaching 30 I was worried if I would never have children.

So painful to be "in love" yet still be near total strangers, usually her to me as I am very open and honest and 99% faithful. For instance:
I dated ,just once, 3 gorgeous women at once and told all 3; Of course, that ended all 3 affairs, and one was a famous butt model !!
Silly me.

I just looked at bare big breasts in a checkout grocery line and she cried!
More often than I wished, this would happen.
A single mom with 2 kids she could barely support. Twice it happened;we were very much in love and lust for years. One married a Navy captain. The other, purely for finances, married quickly a physicist and move to Texas.

The last daughter of 12 , a traveling nurse, from a super-rich D.C. family; The father told me " you are Not marrying my daughter." And I had paid to fly from sf to there. She cried in my arms for hours. In just 3 months she was married to a young successful lawyer , with a huge 2 story house, 4 girls, and after 20 hard years, a quick divorce.

One rebounded back to a lived with but rejected Wyoming trucker who owned his own brick house, who was so jealous of her smarts, poise, confidence, humor and beauty, he became very jealous and very abusive; after 2 good kids and 20years, another very painful divorce.

Three women came right out and told me, after a Wonderful year or two, get this!, "I love you, I want to marry you, but if you don't double your salary to $80k by next week, we are done!!"
So one married a guy who died of cancer in one year. Another married an old "trusted but boring" she told me boyfriend and moved from the luxury,2 story, hot tub condo. 2 car big garage for our Miata and MR2.

Guess I won't Rob banks for any of these women.
What a sadness.

Costco item #45694, the "Kirkland Signature Baguette 2 PACK" is NOT RECOMMENDED, as has little or no taste. $4.99.

And while we are burning Costco Bakery, the croissants are TOO TOUGH.

Trump promised to take care of all of us, especially the working poor.

We just need to hold him to his word.
Yep, it's that Simple.

What is it!!,with young attractive women not liking a large 20' x 20' bedroom !??

Still hiding in small spaces,,,?

Ford bought Chariot months ago, but has still not taken over Operational Control. No one seems to know "When!?"

Especially the Chariot employees.

Typical American disgusting Capitalism and all its Bad Manners !!

SUNBEAM ELECTRIC BLANKETS:. not recomnended !! Lousy QC !!

Bought 4, all defective.
Shipped back to Deep South.

Bought 4 more, but dark blue pile.
All defective, only either too hot or off.
And always slipping off the bed !!
Grrrrr.

Everquote, new insurance comparison site, is NOT COMPETITIVE,,total waste of time.

Good drivers , try non-profit Nationwide.
Then AAA.

Costco sold "CHARISMA COMFOREL SILKYSOFT" PILLOWS,,,Strongly Not Recommended, as the 'US Fill' went flat in under a Year !!

Pillow had rectangular box construction.
Regardless, this rather expensive pillow, I had 4, failed too early.

Hope Costco hears this...

Hyphenated tv channels: BOOO !! I hate them and see no advantage to the Consumer/User !! Same for foreign-turn car door locks, HATE THEM !!

So why do we have to put up with it !?
This IS NOT a "technological advance" !!
If the Nerds can't fix this, We must get the politicians to Regulate it !!

Also car door locks and shower valves !!
The American tradition is " righty tighty" and there is no logical reason to change.

This is just lazy non-conforming foreign manufacturers not Respecting the US market !! If the Japanese or Chinese want some bizarre other way in their country that is fine.
But dammit, this is the USA !!
I am so tired of this that when I buy my next car, this year, I will DEMAND and PAY to have the door locks changed to the US tradition of "righty tighty".

This is a daily frustration !!
This is Not Japan or China !! Or France !!
If those foreign manufacturers won't respect the US market, then we traditionalists and logical users of car locks, door locks and water valves MUST get our lazy politicians to Regulate this !!

I did not vote for hyphenated TV channels or locks that turn the wrong way !!
And I certain do not approve of these stupid changes in the international marketplace !!
So what if a foreign manufacturers is too lazy and disrespectful to make door locks and shower valves the way we have used them for decades, logically.
WE SHOULD NOT BUY THEM.

Feb.2017, In the last election, most of the recent Mayors and most of the City Council candidates admitted to being "put.up for office by Real Estate industry", so why would we trust or believe anything they say ?

That is why there is a law in Burlingame against rent control !!

That is why they exaggerated and lied to defeat the Rent Stabilization measure put on the recent ballot by many signatures of many renters.
And why the measure lost 2 to 1 !!

Most of the residents and most of the registered voters in Burlingame are renters/leases and not owners.
So this behavior by our elected city government was not "for the good of Burlingame" as so many candidates stated, but first and foremost for the Real Estate Industry !!

There should be a law against such double-dealing and misrepresentation.
Don't you poor honest people agree?

You know what the Bible says about " trying to serve two Masters", right?

This is a massive decades long Scandal !!

Thus it is not surprising that the Sacramento state Capitol also passed a law against more rent control with so many state resentatives on the take ," campaign contributions".
So how can they work for us if they are bought so cheaply "$10-20k" per vote by rich special interests ?

Even the 4 term Governor,Jerry Brown, has recently come under media attention and derision for dirty Oil Industry dealing$ for himself and his sister.
Will we be able to find an honest and hard working Governor candidate to replace him, after so many terrible (grey Davis) and dishonest, and cruel (Ronald Reagan)
2 master Governor's going back decades?

I thought we had an anti-corruption law in California, a "sunshine law".
So how do we clean up California politics at every level, if the electorate is ignorant and lied to constantly and the media fails often to do its job of reporting, like the total annual rainfall and the Oct. 1st "rain year" totals for all regions of this sorry state that are currently someone's big secrets?

California is what, the "6th largest economy in the World" yet Our State is riddled with corruption !!
And not just the Mafia getting away in Silicon Valley etc. with selling hard drugs to our children and well paid workers. Why do you think Caltrans is constantly giving rich contracts to incompetent companies ,like the Highway 87 elevated roadway failure, last winter repaving of highway 101 sf-sj failure by just rain, and especially "over $6 billion misspent on the new Oakland Bay Bridge", that the Governor left the state for on Opening Day !?
Our state politicians are too busy getting personally Rich to be bothered doing their Oath, elected jobs for such Fools as us.

When that malfeasance and corruption are in the Murders and Assassinations by our police and sheriff's, the Grand Jury system, and every level of the Courts from Small Claims all the way up, isn't it time to wake up, do the hard work, and say "Enough!"?

When will the dirty dishonesty tide turn for California ?