Office Blues

Porter Creek Winery

I have an office job. (I'm training at the tour office) its bringin me down man! I hate it (not the job specifically, just being inside in a little windowless office)! I do it all of this week and part of next as well. My poor trainer Jessa was having a hard time letting me "drive" today. She is very thorough and efficient and its hard to sit back and watch me struggle. She is very nice about it though, not a jerk. I'm really glad! 


I'm still on stand by trips for the time being. Meaning if one van fills I drive the second. 

Bay Bridge

I am hoping to get out of this rut...aren't we all in one these days?? I just can't seem to go do anything. I have all afternoon off and I don't even leave the hostel. I should be searching out new food or drink?! Nightlife? Boogie?! (like boogie down, not booger in your nose)

I need to pick out one thing on my to do list and go and do it. That would help, like a schedule of fun?! Is that sad or what? 

I started looking for places to live. Its not easy. Tons of places all with major write ups so you know them and then you email and tell them about you etc. Yikes! Its like online dating! 

I'm also starting to feel that I've been abandoned by my friends, its the "life goes on" thing I have to readjust to. 

On my way home today I made a few stops...speaking of trying new food. I did actually do that today. I swung into Mr and Mrs for ice cream today and the owner was there so I chatted to him about his Ballpark flavor. He had Beer and Peanuts today. It was really good...beer and ice cream are both good but together they are GREAT! I added a scoop of home made hot fudge. 

Cheese glorious cheese!

I chose to get off the train before it went underground (in case of earthquake again) and I walked along the Embarcadero. Its really nice over there, that was near Folsom Street, south of Market (SOMA) From there I wandered into the ferry building and found the Pork Store (Boccalone) home of the meat cone. Yeah! I bought one and ate it and promptly went back and ordered some slices of my favorite one. Called Capocollo. Thinly sliced, similar to the cured meats they have in Spain (yum!) after that I wandered next door to the cheese store! And they let me sample some cheeses. I bought three slivers of cheese. I have to google them to see where they are from. But seriously have I EVER met a cheese I didn't like?! 

As I said before I worked on apartment hunting this afternoon once I got home. I had laundry plans but they were waxing the floor or something...I'm getting dangerously low on the essentials...

My home away from home (the office)

One man was renting his yacht out for two months while he was away. I'm anxious to see if I hear from him. He was not charging much and I'd love to live on a yacht for a few months!  

One of the Irish girls told me she got up early on Monday to go to the memorial of the 1906 earthquake, that happened April 18th. I hadn't realized it was that day. She said people gather at the fountain where the original survivors gathered to collect their friends and family. I have to google it and see what the name of the fountain was, she didn't remember...she didn't make it there...ironic that an earthquake big enough for the city to feel happened that same day. 

I talked to the people at the office and they had felt the earthquake as well, which meant I didn't feel it because I was on a moving train! Scary! People think I'm so funny but when the big one hits this city will fall apart. The old buildings the trains the bridges etc. and then their will be chaos on the streets. I mean, don't forget, crazy people get bused here from other states (ha! My uncle calls it the land of fruits and nuts) More nuts that fruits in my opinion. 

Well I've rambled on enough...now to work on my schedule of fun things to do each day. Oh and study my wine country maps and wineries...I've got stand by tours coming up and still not a clue what I'm doing there. :)