gentle people here

so i have only 16 minutes left on my internet cafe account, so there will be a lot of typos... my meeting ended early today and i have the afternoon off. so B. (my partner, a foreign M.D. and scientist) and i went to eat thai food (again!) and then i went up to the hotel to get changed. then i went to the concierge and asked what can i do in one afternoon to see SF. why not, who knows when/if i ever come back? (maybe as soon as a few weeks!? maybe never?) anywho, so the trolley thing starts right by my hotel, so i got on it there and saw the sceenic route through the very hilly town of SF. lots of colorful, quirky houses. through chinatown. past the very windy road thing you always see in movies, down to the hyde street pier. it was a fun ride. the man who was working the breaks on the back of the trolley car was an old man, grey whiskers, who would give everyone sarcastic answers to people's questions. he told me a ticket was $100 dollars. it was funny (you had to be there). so then i walked along the hyde street pier and looked at old boats and read about them from these nice lamintaed displays. then i walked over and put a quarter in one of those telescope things and looked at alcatraz, and the golden gate bridge. then i walked across the state park, up to the giradelli chocolate factory and museum. i got a free piece of chocolate. yum. my wife would love that place. there was a 10 pound bar of chocolate for $40.00.

so now, i am here. later on, i suppose i will see the cannery, and maybe the fisherman's museum? tonight, i plan to have dinner in the music/club district where i hope to eat amazing sidewalk-cafe food and then see some live jazz. it was supposed to rain, but it didn't. if it had, i would be in the modern art museum, but since then the sun broke and it's pretty mild out, i'm out here seeing the sights. also, i keep seeing kids and missing e.w.; but of course, i also don't envy these people who are pushing these strollers all around these hilly streets. anyway, that's that.