Adam Turtle, Freelance Web Design in Belfast, Northern Ireland
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Hottest day of the year
- 16th May, 2008
- filed under: Movies, People, San Francisco
- 1 comment
Yesterday, about 4.30 in the afternoon I notice it’s a little hotter than usual. I check Google and this is what it tells me. It’s absolutely roasting. In fact I think it’s a record for San Francisco, it’s usually sunny but never this warm. The good weather is expected to last throughout the weekend.
In other news, this weekend is shaping up to be good. The annual Bay to Breakers Race is taking place is taking place this Sunday, which draws huge amounts of people. It’s a 12k race from Embarcadero on the east (the Bay), to the breakers at Ocean Beach on the west side of the city. Of course there’s all the hills on the way which makes it considerably more difficult than it sounds.
The reason it gets a lot of attention, aside from being the longest consecutively running race in the world, is that it attracts more people either in costumes or in nothing at all than actual runners. Do a search for Bay to Breakers on Flickr and you’ll see what I’m talking about. There’s thousands of people dressed as Elvis and other things, and about the same about turn up for the race in the nude. Interesting.
Also interesting is that my friend Paul turned up in SF the other day. He’s on a ’round the world’ trip and has been mainly visiting Asia and Australia so far, but he arrived here a few days ago and is staying about a week. He says I have an American accent now, but I think he’s just taking the piss a bit. At least, I hope he is…
Valerie attempted to cut his hair last night with my $5 shaver from Walgreens, but with no success. It was a combination of his hair being a total mess and my shaver being of expectedly crap quality. I advised him to visit my favourite little hairdressers in Chinatown, where they only charge $5. They don’t understand English but they can interpret a ’shave my head’ gesture.
I have both Saturday and Sunday off this week. For most of you on placement or at university, this is nothing unusual so be thankful. My last weekend off was about a week after coming home from Hawaii. So about 5 months ago. Rejoice!
Prince Caspian comes out today so I will go see it. I’m gearing up for disappointment, since it got a pretty bad review from the SF Chronicle, which is generally quite accurate at reviews. I’m more looking forward to Indiana Jones next week, for which I purchased a replica ‘Indi’ hat to wear to the special occasion. Expect pictures.
Whoa that’s some weather, there’s actually been 2 weeks of sunshine here in NI, believe it or not! Much craic with you? Pete