I made about ten full revolutions on the bicycle last night which is a huge step forward and something I'm very happy about.  I'm a couple of weeks ahead of schedule and I think I'm pretty much on track to be bicycling outside by the middle of August.   I can also report that I'm walking both up and down stairs now which feels kind of weird but isn't painful.

I wanted to take the Divisadero bus to Geary and walk to work through Japantown but I was way too late for that so I took the subway to Civic Center and took Hyde to California and then down into the Financial District on Sacramento.  It's cold and a little drizzly but that's summer in San Francisco.

Here I am in UN Plaza:



Decolicious commercial building:



Nicely detailed:



This apartment building at Hyde and Turk is amazing.  It has the most exuberant decoration:



Incredible:





This building a few blocks up the hill is much simpler but nicely proportioned:



This is the Masonic Center.  I've never been inside. It's very modern fabulous on the exterior:


This is fantastic/amazing/incredible



I love the mosaic background on these reliefs.  It's a little YMCA isn't it??



Huntington Park:



The view up to Russian Hill from Huntington Park:



The Saint Francis and Mark Hopkins Hotels:



The Stockton Tunnel from Sacramento:

I headed out midday to go see the doctor about my knee.  This is the view looking down Geary Street for the dreaded 38 Geary bus.  



My doctor's visit went really well.  My knee has almost completely healed and looks great and I can begin working on increasing my range of motion so I can get back on my bike.  The plan is to work until I can spin on the bike for range of motion and then start working on strength.  Stay tuned! 

I got some pics on my way back to the office.  This is the view down Leavenworth towards the Central Tower:



This building on Grant between Sutter and Bush is now Condos and is super nice.  It doesn't have parking but you're so right in the middle of everything.



Chinatown Gate on Grant:



Grant Street views:







Transamerica Pyramid as seen from Chinatown:



I got a few new comic books that I ready while I was waiting at Kaiser.  My new favorite is Captain Marvel.  Who's totally hot.  And partially insect.  And possibly sexually ambiguous:



You can read more about him here.  Here he is wearing clothes: 

Ugh!  I pretty much feel awful today because of the hectic Pride weekend.  Tired, hungover, and a little sunburned--  I feel like I've been ridden hard and put away wet.  I managed to get my ass out of the office for a little walk around lunchtime.  I headed down to the Embarcadero:





The foodie inside of the Embarcadero:



This pier is recent.  I love that locals are using it for fishing and that it isn't just a tourist thing:



The Bay Bridge from the pier



Looking back at the city:





A good friend will be moving into the Infinity towers soon.  He's very excited about it:



One Rincon Center:



This is the entrance to the PG&E building on Market.  It's an amazingly intricate Italianate building that was built in the 30's.  Likey!



The Hyatt hotel with it's famous revolving restaurant. All restaurants should rotate.



I headed back to the office and had an interesting conversation with my mom who seems to think that it's OK for me to start riding on the trainer in the house.  Which I'm going to try tonight.  Stay tuned!

I had all shades of fun on Saturday.  Mr Poe and I had tickets to the King Tut exhibit in the late afternoon.  I talked him into walking both ways.  Which was lots of fun because the weather was gorgeous.  I love going to the De Young because the building is so spectacular:





The Tut exhibit itself does not get a rave.  It was very small and not a great sampling of the actual collection and was kind if disappointing.  I was really surprised by this given the amount of fanfare that the exhibit had gotten and the fact that we had to pay $22.50 for tickets even though we were members.  And the asshole guards were on patrol and I got yelled at for using my Iphone to access the internet.  They need to do something about the guards at the De Young.  Some of them are just awful.  I've been to just about every museum in the city and many, many more worldwide and I've never been spoken to like the guards at the De Young do.  It's almost a reason not to go. 

I managed to talk Mr. Poe into walking home by promising him pizza in the Haight.  I got a few shots of the park as we headed over.  It was a glorious day.  Warm but not too hot, sunny, perfect.

The California Academy of Sciences:



A sculpture from the original De Young.  One of the few original pieced that remain on the site:



Some monument to Spanish Explorers:





Fabulous planting on JFK:





St. Ignatius from the Panhandle:



Hello gorgeous!



The view from the top of the Saturn Steps:



We went home and had a little dinner and I made some deviled eggs and then we headed over to a party at Jeff Nanney's house.  It got a little raucus:



We didn't stay too late because we were really, really tired.  We went home and went to bed.

I'm am not sleeping well.  Not at all.  I'm sleeping for about 45 minutes and then I'm getting a leg cramp or a muscle spasm and then I'm up and then I fall asleep again.  It's totally what I expected and it's going to be a recurring theme for a long time.  That doesn't mean I'm much fun to be around.  I couldn't get out of bed at all this morning.  I almost worked from home but I don't want get started doing that because getting moving again needs to be my top priority and working from home is more conducive to me sitting around and eating snacks all day.  Mr. Poe drove me to Muni.  This took some prodding.  There were multiple slurs hurled at both parties but in the end the "douchebag" who needed to "get off the cross because they need the wood" relented and dropped me off at the Castro Muni station.  My hero.

I don't understand these tiny cans of Diet Coke.  Not at all.  Are they sized for people for whom a twelve ounce can would be a deal breaker??  A coworker suggested that they're for guests.  I can imagine how that would work:  "I only like you a little so you're getting the eight ounce can.  Drink up and then get the fuck out!"



I went for a walk in the afternoon that perked me up quite a bit.  I'm sore pretty much everywhere but it's easy to get past that when the weather is agreeable.  I headed up to Nob Hill.

Stockton Street looking North from the top of the tunnel:



A Cable Car and the Ritz Carlton:



I think the Ritz Carlton building was at one point an art school. 



It's very finely detailed:



Grace Cathedral from Huntington Park:



The beautiful doors:





The view towards Russian Hill:



A pretty apartment building on Taylor:



The view down Washington:



Russian Hill:





I love this apartment building on Taylor which is both Modern and Traditional at the same time:



Interesting Detail:



Me:



Cool alley:



Empire apartment building on Jackson:



Asianlicious building on Jackson:



Telegraph Hill from Kearny:



Gorgeous facade on Jackson:



The firehouse on Sansome:



I'm hoping I'll get more sleep tonight.  Stay tuned!