The Major

Author: FourMajor

  • Escape the Heat

    More on the weather. Depending on which site I went to, the high temperature today was somewhere between 64 and 101 degrees. What is wrong with the weather sites, by the way? I’d put the high temperature at about 90.

    Anyway, I would have normally walked to class but I didn’t want to sweat up a storm on the 2.5 mile walk. Public transportation it is. I decided not to take the bus, figured it would be too hot. I got on BART instead. Boy was that a mistake. Evidently they don’t use A/C either.

    In general the whole city of San Francisco isn’t prepared for the heat. If a place has A/C it doesn’t seem like it is prepared to handle these temperatures, as even the air conditioned places seemed about 5 degrees warmer than usual. At least in the areas where it gets hotter on average than San Francisco they are prepared for it!

    Tomorrow is supposed to be cooler. I don’t mind the heat too much right now though. Like I said before, it is a nice change.

  • What’s a (Lazy) Man to Do?

    I have been sending my laundry out for wash and fold service. It isn’t much more expensive than washing the clothes myself and it saves a whole lot of time.

    The first place I tried was good but they fumbled my pickup date. Said it would be ready at a certain time, I show up, it wasn’t ready. They tell me to come back at another time, I show up, again, not ready. Finally it was ready on the final time they told me to show. But I was ready for a different place.

    The second place had my stuff ready when they said it would be ready. Except they said that it would be about four days. On more than one occasion. I decided this was too long to be without the majority of my clothes.

    I hoped I had hit gold on the third place. And I thought I had. Until today when I was going through some of my clothes and found that they got some bleach on one of my black shirts.

    Argh…must find another place now.

  • Suspense

    The UPS guy showed up today while I wasn’t home. I let him into the security door with my cell phone. I am excited to find out what was delivered – I’ve ordered a few things in the past few days.

  • Spearmint Itch

    Why does spearmint gum make my nose itch?

  • The Weather

    It is a beautiful, warm and clear day in the Bay Area today. Hopefully the next few nights will be warm too, even though I generally enjoy the cool San Francisco nights. It’ll be good to have a change.

  • Lenin Update #2

    Been reading more of the Lenin biography. It is extremely well written.

    It turns out that he was a lawyer, specifically a barrister. Also, he barely did any work as a lawyer. He had a low case load. And he was still being funded mostly by his mother.

    He was born in 1870 and I have read up to 1895. We’ll see what happens as he gets a little older and his mother’s money presumably runs out. Right now he is in jail at the end of 1895.

  • A Great Night

    It is really just a night not unlike many others. But still, what a great night I have had tonight.

    Of course it doesn’t hurt that I just had my World History final tonight, which I am confident that I aced.

  • Website Visits

    I thought my increased postings about boring, everyday topics would drive my website visits down. I was wrong:

  • Update on Lenin

    At this point he has self studied for his law degree. I think it took him about 6 months (read: crazy smart). And he finally got his first job, not as a lawyer, but something related to the law.

    More updates forthcoming.

  • HDTV

    I was at the sports bar tonight watching the Spurs vs. Hornets. HDTV is so beautiful I could see the individual white hairs in Byron Scott’s mustache. Usually I had noticed it most during football. But tonight it so enhanced my basketball watching experience.