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09/15/2001 Entry: "Another Day In California"
Had dinner with some Cisco people last night, and then crashed at their house to watch a movie. It was a nice evening, but I was exhausted the entire night, having gotten up at 5:30AM that morning. I drank A LOT of black tea during dinner to stay awake.
Today Bing and I saw the Pacific ocean. We headed West from Santa Rosa until we hit the water, and then headed south until we hit San Francisco. Some of the views were incrediable, but the road is incrediably twisty with steep drops, and Bing is a fast driver, so I spent most of my time gripping the dashboard hoping we didn't get into an accident. One beach we stopped at was covered with some sort of washed up vegatation that looked like some sort of Lovecraftian squid monster. Unfortunately I didn't bring a camera with me to California.
Once we were in San Francisco, we drove around for a while until we found Fisherman's Warf, parked and walked around there for a while. I'm assuming this was a mistake, because the Warf was not really that interesting at all, and it was cold and windy and we weren't very hungry. Everything seemed run down and gloomy. We were tired and bored after that, so we came back to the hotel. I figured out how to get my Earthlink connection working from my laptop and room phone connection, so that's were I'm posting this from now.
There are a lot of people driving with flags on their antennas, and people posting flags in windows and draping them over fences and bridges over the highway. As a welcome change I have also seen two anti-violence banners as well. We have seen two candlelight vigils - one in Santa Rosa, the other in Petaluma.
I will be camping out in Santa Rosa tomorrow, while Bing goes in to San Jose to visit some famous Chinese resturant. I'll probably go to the Burbank House and Gardens for a while, if just to find out what it was, then probably try and go to the movies, and otherwise just hack in the hotel room. I'm playing around with Haskell again, trying to find something useful that it can do. (I'm thinking automatic test case generation)
I have also seen a number of 4X4's with big tires speeding around with full size flags, pole and all, set up in the bed of the truck. These scare me. I imagine the drivers are out "smoking out" any foreigners they can find.
