March 18, 2008

  • Tuesday, March 18

    I didn't get a good nights sleep because Rufus and Ashley were at war at 2:30 in the morning.  I hate to complain because the alternative would be a sneak attack from Ashley on us at 2:30 in the morning and his little teeth are like razors.  I managed to drag myself out of bed and headed off Corbett to Portola to Woodside to Dewey to Taravel and down to the coast.  I'm still a little worried about my rear wheel so I'm taking descents kind of slowly.  I'm figuring that if I don't have any issues with it but Friday then it's not going to happen again.  I came up the Great Highway and went into Golden Gate Park at MLK and checked out the progress on the South Windmill.  Mr. Poe was just asking me about the progress on its repair.  It was supposed to be reinstalled in 2006.  It hasn't been, but I saw definite signs of activity at the site.  It no longer looks like a location for a pivotal scene in a Nancy Drew mystery:

    The building attached to it looks to me like it's been painted.  I'm hoping that soon the windmill will be back and this site will be accessible to the public again.

    I continued on MLK and then headed over to Stow Lake which always looks so pretty in the morning:

    There's this odd German-ish building at the lake that always leaves me scratching my head:

    Here's me in front of it:

    I headed over to JFK and came out of the park at 8th Ave and took it to Lake to Arguello and into the Presidio.  I came out of the Presidio at the Lombard gate and noted that they're finally working on the Palace of Fine Arts which has been in dire need of stabilization since I moved here.  It's so beautiful and I'm hoping they'll be able to take down the big metal nets on the inside of the dome that was keeping pieces of the decoration from falling on people:

    I took Chestnut to Van Ness to North Point to Embarcadero to Washington to battery to Sacramento to Sansome and into work.