January 17, 2012

  • Saturday, January 14, 2012

    Friday night my watch which is also my alarm clock died while I slept and I didn't get up early enough to on the monthly Different Spokes Jersey Ride.  Mr. Poe says I was just being lazy and maybe there's something to that but I had to fit in a trip to Union Square to get it fixed on top of the other stuff I had to do and I didn't see how that was gonna get done with me on the bike all day.  I met Nathan in the afternoon and we went for a nice walk to North Beach and into Chinatown where the New Years celebrations were in full swing.  Gung hay fat choy!:

    Nathan:

    This is the Chinatown Hilton.  I really like this building and the way it's incorporated into the surrounding stuff.  There's this fabulous bridge from Portsmouth Square that's very monumental:

    This is the new City College building across the street.  It's very nice.  I love it long time.

    This is a staircase inside the hotel.  Swank:

    I went and got my watch fixed and then got on the Geary bus and headed to my new favorite grocery store--  First Korean Market on Geary at 11th.  They've got everything you need for Korean cooking and they're very nice although neither of the women who works there has the greatest english in the world.  I got stuff for the dinner party we were having on Sunday night including this enigmatic snack:

    Mr. Poe picked me up from there and we headed home for dinner.  After dinner I made some more travel plans for the Lifecycle.  It's too early to make plane reservations but hotels are already filling up expecially in LA because it's Pride weekend so I needed to get all that in.  I'm planning on princessing in Paso Robles and Lompoc and then I'm gonna stay in LA for a couple of days after the ride.  My friend Jim is gonna be a roadie and we're planning a boozy bender for after the ride.  I'm thinking I'm gonna come back to San Francisco on the train which I've never done and will either be awesome or endless I'm not sure which.  I headed to bed after I was beat.