What to say about yesterday...it was a stinker !. One of those days where it just seems that it wasn't worth chewing through the leather straps. Meetings cancelled, parking tickets, just a nightmare. Parked the car under a sign that said two hour parking, but didn't read the sign 5 yards away that said "Street cleaning Tuesday, cars will be towed". Of course go to move the car and its not there, call the towing company and when I finally talk to a real human being they say its at the 1800 block of 18th Street, ok, great so the impound lot is close. But nope, they had simply moved it. Admittedly with two tickets, but I'll take that, over a towing and impound fee.

Day ended up well, with a client I've been working with wanting to move forward asap. Must have been the good karma I earned picking up bottled water, bread and peanut butter for the homeless guys who hang around outside the safeway downstairs. Certainly a bunch of character, "Santa" (aka Harry) being the kicker, camo pants, t-shirt, always has Safeway bags over his feet and a bright red santa hat, tows a large luggage suitcase everywhere, and always smiles. Pretty cool guy, to be able to find joy and humour in that situation.

Also got my new phone, releasing my inner geek with a matte black Razr. A slew of text messages in the afternoon while I was out from the bosses at the beach with the England v Sweden soccer score, gotta love technology.

A note on the pictures, they are all taken either from the office, or within a block or two, just what catches my eye on a particular day. Today's picture is my CTO taking a catnap at lunch.

This morning's ride in was cool, beautiful weather, the demeanour of people changing with the temperature and sunshine. Two surreal moments, one a Volvo passing me on 19th Street decked out in English flags, lets see - a Swedish car, made by an American company, with English flags all over it.

Second surreal moment and an indication of being here too long was being passed by a motorcade of police motorbikes, a couple of black Chevy Suburbans and a limo with US flags on it, and realising that I paid it no attention...

Its also halfway to the weekend - and looking forward to heading to NJ to see William, just been online booking surfing lessons for him for Sunday, though Daddy wants to try it too ;-).