So, this is San Francisco!

We moved this weekend from a "luxury loft" in SoMa, close enough to my office that I felt like I went home, to a house on a hill in Bernal Heights.  We have three bedrooms now, and a garage, and a small, paved backyard in which my dogs have already shit.  Up the hill in either direction is a nice park where the dogs have also plied their trade, and there are coffee shops, restaurants, and a grocery store called The Good Life.

Indeed!

This morning, Katie and I commuted to work for the first time.  We took the 24 Muni from the corner of our street, up and down 2 very large hills, and into the Castro.  There were rainbow flags and gay men walking their tiny dogs.  We got off on the corner of Castro and Market and transferred to the underground Muni.  It was not very crowded on the train at 9, so I took some time to do some Muni Vinyasas, a subject about which I will blog in the future.   Katie scolded me for not respecting the personal space of my fellow passengers.  We got off at the Montgomery Street station, and then we walked 2 blocks to my office.  There was coffee on the way.  It took 50 minutes, and I got to see bridges, lesbians, gays, dogs, hills, fog, subways, and people of all shape, size and color. 

It made me very happy to see these things because they made me feel as if now, finally, I actually live in San Francisco instead of the southern annex of the CNET Networks corporate ofice.  I'd still rather be in Austin, but hey, I'll settle for this.