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Okay, so it's NOT just me!
Aug. 19th, 2005 07:55 amI was amused, not long after my rant about weather last night, to come across this story in the San Francisco Chronicle about the Fog Days of Summer.
Best quote: "I'm up to my nose in fog,'' said Helen Johnson, who has lived in San Francisco -- "in the fog,'' she says -- for 16 years. Johnson runs the heater in her house in the West Portal district four months of the year, she says -- in January, February, July and August.
Truth is, in 14 years in the Bay Area, this is only the 3rd summer I've lived this far north...directly across from the city, so I'm still getting used to this foggy August. For most of my time here I've lived farther down the Peninsula into Silicon Valley. Much of that area was populated with summer homes, camps, and the first bedroom communities post-WWII as a place to escape from the summer fog.
Me, naturally, I escape INTO the fog...
Also, I was amused by this Mark Morford story on Amazon.com's amazing wealth of sex toys for sale online. "Quality Dildos Save the World" uh huh. And now Bush protests the .xxx for Adult web addresses. Amazon...ride to the rescue then!
And lastly...just because its the kind of mood I've been in lately...I was very amused and sadly, unsurprised by this story:
Thank Gods its Friday!
That's all I'm saying.
Best quote: "I'm up to my nose in fog,'' said Helen Johnson, who has lived in San Francisco -- "in the fog,'' she says -- for 16 years. Johnson runs the heater in her house in the West Portal district four months of the year, she says -- in January, February, July and August.
Truth is, in 14 years in the Bay Area, this is only the 3rd summer I've lived this far north...directly across from the city, so I'm still getting used to this foggy August. For most of my time here I've lived farther down the Peninsula into Silicon Valley. Much of that area was populated with summer homes, camps, and the first bedroom communities post-WWII as a place to escape from the summer fog.
Me, naturally, I escape INTO the fog...
Also, I was amused by this Mark Morford story on Amazon.com's amazing wealth of sex toys for sale online. "Quality Dildos Save the World" uh huh. And now Bush protests the .xxx for Adult web addresses. Amazon...ride to the rescue then!
And lastly...just because its the kind of mood I've been in lately...I was very amused and sadly, unsurprised by this story:
LaChania Govan said she got bounced around by her cable company when she called to complain. She made dozens of calls and was even transferred to a person who spoke Spanish — a language she doesn't understand.
But when she got her August bill from Comcast she had no trouble understanding she'd made somebody mad. It was addressed to "Bitch Dog."
"I was like you got to be freaking kidding me," said Govan, 25. "I was so mad I couldn't even cuss."
Thank Gods its Friday!
That's all I'm saying.
