The welcome home committee! 27 years through the same front door and counting.
A little SF history...
If you don't know Chinatown, you don't know San Francisco. The largest outside of China since its beginning. It is a world all its own where generations live and die and where English is not necessary.
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1886
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1906 aftermath
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1930's
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1960's
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2000's
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Now
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When the laundry disappears, Chinatown will be officially dead.
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Retired crouching tigers
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Once again spent the SF break looking for tile. Bought 35 sq ft for the kitchen backsplash. Nothing is easy. Originally I thought I had purchased enough of the Calcutta marble to take care of this but playing me for an export rube when I was in Florida the entire shipment was not consistent. Part of me is convinced that once merchants hear, for export, things get dodgy. If you recall I was shipped a very bad load of veneer plaster. Everyone along the shipping line blamed it on someone else. The end result is you get stuck with it, thousands of miles from its origins and no one to look for compensation.
What should have been an easy task, putting up 24" tiles now turned into a real pain trying to find a shade of white that remotely matched the marble of the counters. Who knew so many shades of white could be such a pain in the ass. Cabinets, two types of marble, window and door paint, and now a backsplash. Being a glutton for punishment I decided I could carry the 140 lbs in my luggage. The breakage of the glass tile convinced me to be an idiot. My buddy Roger said he would pick me up at the ferry and drive me to my truck.
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Best movie I saw
Saw this movie last year but it really came alive when we saw this exhibit at the DeYoung.
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Angelique Kerber, 2015 Bank of the West tourney winner. We went to the quarter finals at night. Wow, watching the sunset and then pros under the lights. Too fabulous.
It's amazing how much has changed in 100 years and yet it all feels the same having been here almost 40 of those years.
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