September 26, 2012
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Tuesday September 25, 2012
Tuesday it was super foggy when I left the house. I came into work Market to Laguna to McAllister and stopped for a pic of your glamorous city hall:
I continued on McAllister to Polk to O’Farrell to Grant to Post to Kearny to Clay to Sansome. I went to the gym over lunch and then went for a nice ride after work. I headed off 2nd to Howard. I noted that Howard is gonna be closed between 3rd and 4th for a conference yet again next week. I’m starting to think that they should just close off Howard at that block and make it a proper plaza or better yet built an elevated one so that they never have to close it off again. I continued on Howard to 11th to Bryant to Mariposa to Florida. I stopped for a pic at 24th. I love this view. It’s just so Mission-y:
These buildings belong to St. Peters and they’ve covered with amazing murals. There seems to be a bit of a backlash against Precita Eyes Mural Project and they were rejected for a new project at the 24th St BART station in favor of something more Burning Man-ish (shudder). Here’s a link to a blog post about it and I can’t for the life of me figure out why people aren’t unanimously in favor of Precita Eyes doing that mural but I guess their success has made them ‘the man’ in some people’s eyes. It’s a shame because their work is amazing:
I continued on Florida to 25th to Lilac. Lilac is a dumpy alley in a crappy part of the Mission which would only be worth a look for late night drunken handies if it weren’t for the beautiful murals that grace its walls. Evidence:
I took Lilac to 26th to Valencia to Tiffany to 29th to San Jose to Monterey to Foerster to Flood to Gennessee to Judson and stopped for a pic at City College. Two things. First, notice how amazingly foggy it was. Crazy. Second, look at how awful this building looks. The garden on the roof is dead and the building is rusty and looks in disrepair. The punch line is that this building is maybe six years old:
I took classes at City College for many years and without a doubt the education I received there is how I got the job that I have now. But I don’t like the direction that they’ve taken in recent years with all this new construction that they clearly can’t maintain and their terrible business plan that’s driving them towards insolvency and a possible lost of accreditation in March. And I don’t understand why there isn’t more of a sense of urgency at the City College about the dire state of affairs. Absolutely everybody in administration who has any hand in the mess they are in now needs to go and the new administration needs to do something drastic to address the situation which would likely be a bankruptcy filing and I don’t see either of those things happening. Proposition A is a property tax funded bond to fund their continuing operations and close a 15 million dollar gap in their budget. For reals? First of all, bonds are for capital improvements and new construction not continuing operations. Second, if this is City College’s response than it’s so very clear that they are completely out of touch with how bad their problems are and how to fix them. The accreditation people aren’t gonna care how important City College is or how many people need it if they don’t see a lot of change by March and I don’t see those wheels turning quickly enough. And I’m not voting for proposition A.
I continued on Judson to Phelan to Ocean to Harold to Holloway to Ashton to Pico to Urbano to Mocada to Cerritos to 20th to Ocean to Clearfield into 34th to Yorba to Crestlake to Wawona to 33rd to Vicente to 16th to Taravel to Merced to Hernandez to Laguna Honda to Portola. It was so foggy at Portola and Corbett that I could only see oncoming traffic if they had their lights on which meant I had a very scary left turn onto it. I took Corbett to Ord and home for dinner. After dinner I started ice cream for Brook who has had his tonsils out and needs some extra lovin’. I made the custard and put it in the fridge to chill. I’ll freeze it on Wendesday. We were all beat and we went to bed early.
Bike Mileage:
Today 19.8 Week to date 19.8 Month to date 547.8 Year to date 5,924.2 To Goal 2,075.8 Over (Under) plan 6.4 YTD Mileage vs Last Year 1,247.4 Rolling Year 6,689.9 Since Inception 10/1/07 39,851.1
