Went out for a short walk last night when I got home since it was a pleasantly warm evening, and while trying to get some shots of a family of older ducklings across the other side of the lagoon area, these very young ones were herded in front of me by their mother. I assume she was hoping for food, but I only had the camera. Got a few shots, though the light was fading so they’re mostly flash assisted and not great.
Well, Monday morning and BART is making up for being incident-free last week by announcing:
There is another train that needs to be ??? and we’re single tracking. What I’m going to do now is I’m going to have to change ends and go back at the other end, pull the … pull it the other way and then eventually we are change ends again then go to SFO so there will be a minor delay for that.
And sure enough, just after making that announcement, he ran through the train to get to the back and drove us back into Colma station (that we had just left). Then, to minimise the delay, another driver got in the front and drove us out again. The original driver walked back through the train, and was back at the controls before we arrived at San Bruno.
Another shot from the same day as the previous two. This one shows the large, water-filled art installation in Justin Herman Plaza with the Ferry Building’s clock tower protruding from it (OK, really it is just behind it).
Another shot of the bay bridge taken from the Alameda/Oakland ferry. This one shows the eastern half of the suspension section and part of Yerba Buena/Treasure island.
Taken a while back, on one of my ferry crossings between Alameda and San Francisco. The sky was what caught my attention, and it just made the Bay Bridge and the city look so small in comparison. A reminder of just how insignificant even the larger human achievements really are compared to mother nature!
Spent a while down at the ferry building again tonight, and used the free wireless access at the ferry building courtesy of SF TechConnect. Unfortunately, I didn’t see the “acceptance” screen until I was closing the laptop ready to jump on the ferry. Guess their captive portal is not very captive 🙂
The connection is not bad though, and it was quite pleasant sitting out by the water and writing emails.
The sign shown was fixed to the mirror in the bathroom of the training building on the Microsoft campus I was in for a seminar last week. It is good to see that they still have a sense of humour when it comes to their poor track record with Windoze virus infections.
Sorry about the photo quality; it was a quick grab using the cell phone.
I guess up here in the Seattle area the coffee giant felt the need to diversify. And where better to start than towing and road service 🙂
Outside the hotel I’m staying in for a couple of days is this sign. The hotel itself is pretty basic, but will do for a couple of nights. They have wireless access (flat rate of $4.99 for the length of your stay), though last night it had ping times of over 400ms and kept dropping me. Seems to be better this morning.
Just around the corner are a couple of strip malls, in one of which I discovered The Teapot Vegetarian House restaurant. The food was not bad, though I have been to better places in the bay area.
What more can I say? I took this the same time as the graffiti shot, using the cell phone camera, so the quality is not great. Still, the message is clear!