Come On, Be A Man

“Oh I am a man”

Such is the exchange that we had with a rather burly Australian man in the beer aisle of Safeway. We were discussing why the hell anyone would ever want to drink Bud Light or Bud with Clamato juice (Clam juice and Tomato juice for those inquiring minds out there). We discussed with this man with Ben, Brian and I trying to convince him to buy it. After Ben leaned in close to him and said “Come on, be a man” he turned and looked at Ben and for a moment we all thought Ben was going to be punched out. Instead of that he responded slowly in his thick Australian accent “Oh, I am a man!” and walked away. Such was our encounter with the “Stranger of the Day”.


Yesterday we were further blessed by great weather. Remind me when I get home to send Mother Nature a telegram thanking her for beautiful weather that we have had since I left Maine over a week ago.

After the Farmers Market yesterday we had a realization session at Candace’s. Powernaps, Tea and snacks while lounging in the sun were on order. After a couple of hours we headed in town to catch a ride on a Cable Car down to Fisherman’s Warf. We all landed spots on the car where you hang off the side while cruising along the streets. Brian, Candace and Nor scored spots on the sidewalk side of the car, with Noreen having the money spot in front. Ben and I on the other hand had the street side of the car. Consider this a fair warning if you ever want to hang off the side of a Cable Car.: Suck in your guts and tuck in your ass cheeks. There were a few times where we almost clipped cars going in the other direction because we were essentially hanging out over the middle yellow lines in the road.

We hopped off the car at the top of Lombard Street and walked down and did the tourist thing of standing in the middle of the road and tying up traffic while taking pictures. We wandered down to Ghirardelli Square after that where after seeing gigantic tubs of chocolate being made. We then wandered over to a wine tasting where after 7-8 generous tastings Ben and I were suckered into joining their wine club. In a few weeks we will be having half a case wine delivered to The Borough!

After the wine, we were feeling pretty smiley so we headed down to the Quarter Arcade and played some really old video games. They had games and amusement machines which were over 100 years old! Some of them were lame, others were fascinating. Some were downright creepy… most notably the 1920s “porn” viewers. We then ambled on over to the Pier 39 Sea Lions where we were greeted by the site of the Sea Lions playing and fighting and barking.

After our adventures out in the city we headed back to Candace’s to cook our fresh handmade ravioli and drink the bottles of wine from the tasting room. A pretty chill day in the city which I seem to like more and more each day. Today’s agenda includes drinking beer, eating food, drinking beer and then heading down to see the Giants take on the Dodges in the final exhibition game of the Spring Training season.

I can not wait to boo the shit out of Manny.