Lights Out San Francisco!

Lights Out San Francisco is a citywide energy conservation event that took place tonight between 8 and 9pm. Residents of San Francisco were invited to turn off their lights for one hour in oder to save 15% of the energy that is normally used on an average Saturday night and to encourage energy conservation.

I watched the lights of the Golden Gate go off from Greens, one of my favorite restaurant in the city.

On.

Off.

Even Google lit out in the Bay Area.

It's the Little Differences: The Umbrella Bag

Speaking of rain...

This is what I am used to seeing in the lobby of my office building in mid-October.


This is what I came to this morning.

Rain is the New Snow

It rained today for the first time since we moved to San Francisco almost 6 months ago. Is it winter yet? Days are getting shorter, but it's not getting colder. Très, très bizarre.

Sold!

Our preference was obviously to sell our condo before moving to SF. However, our contract prevented us from selling until the builder had sold all of their units in our building. In July, they finally did. We immediately put the condo on Grapevine (sale by owner site) and sold three weeks later for our asking price.

Once again, we have proven that real estate agents are overrated. We sold our ex-house through Grapevine in 2004 (picture) and saved ourselves big $$$. We did it again this time. I simply cannot imagine giving thousands and thousands of dollars away for something I can do myself.

The tenant moved out last weekend and the closing was yesterday. CRA is keeping 25% of the money (!!!) until they are sure we don’t owe them anything, bastards. The process takes about 8 weeks. The annoyance. As such, we were able to exchange only part of our money this morning. Hang in there loonie!