Greg Burton’s San Francisco Blog

So this is the fourth day of my new life - sitting in an internet cafe at Geary and Hyde in San Francisco. Work proceeds slowly, but it proceeds - and I’ve already got several leads on apartments in the city, for the time being.

Truly great to wake up and not start the day thinking about how badly I want out of Albuquerque and the situation there. Here, I wake up and decide where I’m going for breakfast. There are three decent coffeehouse internet cafes within a couple of blocks.I’ve already chatted with people from Ireland, Australia, Java, Egypt. For lunch and dinner I have my choice of Korean, Indonesian, Thai, Chinese, Japanese, Mexican, Persian, Italian and American within 2 blocks. And a hookah bar/ espresso joint open til really late.

Indonesian Day at Union Square tomorrow. Patti Smith at the Fillmore next week - Bert Jansch at Sweden Hall the week after - Richard Thompson at the Fillmore in September. Blues and jazz clubs. A Gallery opening tonight - line drawings of contemporary images mixed with Assyrian antiquities. A Leonardo exhibit running through the end of September.

I’ve joined a health club that’s open 24 hours, and have my first personal trainer appointment at 4 today. No raquetball at that location, but I have guest privs at the location that does. The bus that runs by there (I have my muni pass - $45 a month) is also 24 hours. Later 49er football games, warriors basketball.

Life is already very different, in other words - and I’ve got no desire to look back.