3 PM: Rain and more Rain...

I ended up going to the paint-store AGAIN... this time I got caught using my wrong name... well, you know when you go to a "real" supply-house you have an account there and throug that you have access to better pricing depending on how much business you do with those guys... now at Keely Moore I always use Warren account, yes the Warren I used to live together on Burnett Street from 1991 to 1997, he is a painter and has an account there, so in the old days he send me down there to get paint or if I needed to buy paint I just gave these guys his, or his brother Russ's name and bingo... and that goes on for years like that, until this morning when the guy ask me to show my ID to proof that I'm Russ... well I failed doing this and I told him that I actually just using that name, the salesperson knows Warren and Russ, so I run out of luck... well again... he still gave me the discount but he said I should tell Warren to put my name on the list. I felt a bit embarrassed after that, like I got caught cheating and I don't like to do that!!!
The next adventure was in my local post-office, it is always a show to go there, local gossip, the characters, the lady working the window, and so on. The scenario this morning was a lady with a huge order of things she needed to mail, sounded like she runs some kind of a mail-order business, keep the lady behind the window busy with weighing and labeling and typing stuff into the keyboard, all while the customer is chatting away about her daughters wedding and what kind of cake she is gonna bake, brownie vs. red-velvet, and yes she used to bake wedding-cakes for such and such, it was going on for the longest time... I was there just enjoying this whole scene while in the meantime 2 other clients came into the post-office and all they heard was this lady japing away not realizing that she had this huge order to be processed and so they left a bit frustrated... It was pretty funny to watch this piece of america happen, all I needed was two stamps because of the mess I have at home I could not find the ones I already have.
Rich was next, I met him in his office were he is always rambling away about something that does not work or clients that bitch and not pay and and and... until we're finally off to the Chick-a-pea job...
Today I actually set the alarm to make it remebering me when it is 3 o'clock... and it worked... here is the shot.

The whole crew is doing something...

During the day it was raining a lot, then the sun was shining again and at one point of time there was also some lightning, a real unusual thing here in the Bay Area, and it looks like there be lots more to come, rain that is... Fill-up these reservoirs so we don't have a water-rationing this summer.

I thought to take this opportunity to capture the look of Shattuck Ave. north of University Ave. a lot of buildings have gone up in the last few years. These three pictures are taken right outside of the job we're working right now, cool ha???

Looking north, notice all the new buildings, don't even remember what it used to look like...