{"id":29,"date":"2006-08-29T20:49:20","date_gmt":"2006-08-30T03:49:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/steve.isitfridayyet.info\/?p=29"},"modified":"2006-08-29T20:49:20","modified_gmt":"2006-08-30T03:49:20","slug":"back-in-the-bay-area-day-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/steve.isitfridayyet.info\/?p=29","title":{"rendered":"Back in the Bay Area-Day 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Tuesday, Aug. 29, 2006)<\/p>\n<p>Before I forget, this first picture is for my friend, Joyce, who once pointed out that I rarely (if ever) show myself or other people in my photos. Joyce said something like it was &#8220;unusual&#8221; or &#8220;creepy&#8221; or &#8220;disturbing&#8221; and must mean that I &#8220;never go anywhere&#8221; and I was &#8220;obviously a liar and possibly a sociopath&#8221;; I forget her exact words. (ha ha) So, here&#8217;s proof that I&#8211;or my left arm, at least&#8211;was in Berkeley today:<br \/>\n[thumb:418:c:l=p]<\/p>\n<p>Joyce, I&#8217;m sure you&#8217;ll recognize the mole &#038; the hairs on my arm. Oh, and perhaps my tattoo.<\/p>\n<p>And on a completely unrelated note, here&#8217;s another picture for TB:<br \/>\n[thumb:407:c:l=p]<\/p>\n<p>OK, back to me, because this <em>is <\/em>all about ME. I stayed in <a target=\"_blank\" title=\"Berkeley, CA\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ci.berkeley.ca.us\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold\">Berkeley <\/span><\/a>again today. I&#8217;m geographically retarded* and am trying to get somewhat oriented to my surroundings with the hope that I can avoid becoming hopelessly lost. (*It&#8217;s not politically incorrect if I refer to <em>myself <\/em>as retarded.)<\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s adventures included stops at the Poetry Garden &#8230;<br \/>\n[thumb:413:c:l=p]<\/p>\n<p>&#8230; <a target=\"_blank\" title=\"Live Oak Park, Berkeley, CA\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ci.berkeley.ca.us\/parks\/parkspages\/LiveOak.html\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold\">Live Oak Park<\/span><\/a> &#8230;<br \/>\n[thumb:409:c:l=p]<\/p>\n<p>&#8230; and environs, more sightseeing along Shattuck Ave., plus a meander around the <a title=\"University of California Berkeley\" href=\"http:\/\/www.berkeley.edu\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold\">University of California Berkeley<\/span><\/a> campus and vicinity.<br \/>\n[cpg_album:45,5]<\/p>\n<p>And I&#8217;ve seen lots of gorgeous flora all along the way:<br \/>\n[cpg_album:44,5]<\/p>\n<p>My only meal of note today was at <a target=\"_blank\" title=\"Cafe Gratitude, Berkeley, CA\" href=\"http:\/\/www.withthecurrent.com\/cafe.html\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold\">Cafe Gratitude<\/span><\/a>:<br \/>\n[thumb:408:c:l=p]<\/p>\n<p>(See my <a title=\"Bay Area Food\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/steve.isitfridayyet.info\/?page_id=27\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Bay Area Food<\/strong><\/a> page for more about today&#8217;s meals.)<\/p>\n<p>A note about the weather: Yesterday evening, this morning, and this evening were overcast and rather chilly, with a high fog hanging over the city. Yesterday, I quickly realized the one thing I&#8217;d forgotten to pack &#8212; a sweatshirt or sweater. This afternoon, the weather finally cleared up &#038; warmed up around 3:00.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Tuesday, Aug. 29, 2006) Before I forget, this first picture is for my friend, Joyce, who once pointed out that I rarely (if ever) show myself or other people in my photos. Joyce said something like it was &#8220;unusual&#8221; or &#8220;creepy&#8221; or &#8220;disturbing&#8221; and must mean that I &#8220;never go anywhere&#8221; and I was &#8220;obviously [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-san-francisco-bay-area","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/steve.isitfridayyet.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/steve.isitfridayyet.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/steve.isitfridayyet.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steve.isitfridayyet.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steve.isitfridayyet.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/steve.isitfridayyet.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/steve.isitfridayyet.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steve.isitfridayyet.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steve.isitfridayyet.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}