Pigs and Pride

This morning Phil asked me to take a couple pictures of our discusting neighbor's house so that he can forward them to the city (last 2 pictures). Phil already contacted the neighborhood improvement services, and they claim to have a case file opened. Aparently not much is being done though. I can't understand anyone living like such pigs. Geeze people, whether you rent or own have a little pride in your home!

On a nicer note, I took the camera along with me to San Francisco today and took a few pictures after my interview. The tall building to the right of the Transamerica building in the 3rd photo is the building where my interview was held. I don't know the name of the sculpture or the artist, but I liked the mother holding the baby. The 1st pic shows the rainbow flags along Market Street in preparation for the Gay Pride parade this weekend.

1st Fire of the Season

This morning we were warned of a high fire alert due to low humidity, strong winds, and warming temperatures. Temps are surely climbing. Right now it's about 85*, but by Sunday we should be reaching mid-90's. Sure enough, today we had our first fire of the season. I understand that it is still burning. No structures are threatened yet, but there was a voluntary evacuation. The fire is really close to a school, so hopefully all the kids were evacuated safely.

Armageddon???

It has been a crazy day to say the least. In case you haven't heard about the situation on the news, last weekend a 25 year old man was pulled over here in Concord as he was wanted for some previous bank robberies in the area as well as a possible link to a murder in San Francisco. As the police started to question this guy, he shot at the cops and ran into a nearby water slide park. A search of the area went on until nearly 1 A.M. The search went dead. Yesterday the man was found in Sacramento. He barricaded himself inside of an apartment building and held a one year old child hostage. It was later revealed that the child is his cousin. At the present time the standoff still continues. Gun fire between the suspect and the police was exchanged last night, and the suspect was shot in the arm. He also has a head wound of some sort. He still refuses to come out or release the child. http://claycord.com/2010/06/10/update-on-the-attempted-concord-cop-killer/

A Day in the City

Yesterday Phil's friend Chris met up with us in San Francisco. He is here from Colorado for a business meeting in SF, but he had yesterday free. We first went up to Twin Peaks to get some views of the city on a rare fog-free San Francisco day. Then we went to AT&T Park for the Giants game. The game was still tied in the ninth inning, so we took Chris back to his hotel and went home then. I read this morning that the Giants lost after 11 innings. I wonder what time the game finally ended. It was about 10:30 when we left. It was Irish heritage day at the game. The top picture shows a performance by the Irish Healy dancers. From our seats even using the zoom feature on the camera the dancers turned out really small. (Click on the photo for a slightly better view.) Their costumes were beautiful though. The colors were amazing.