I know it really isn’t a big deal, but I’m excited…

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• Landed back at heathrow. #
• Home, food then an evening of publishing stuff from trip and pro evo #
• San Francisco Day 2 http://tinyurl.com/6enyjd #
• San Francisco City Hall http://tinyurl.com/5ge7x2 #
• San Francisco Day 3 http://tinyurl.com/594vwr #
• San Francisco Day 4 http://tinyurl.com/62qsrj #
• @adamjohnstone about what? #

Now day 4, no one likes the return home day, yet everyone loves getting home. Again won’t bore with the details, breakfast, however I did have a very nice view of Alcatraz, and work in the morning, check out at 12, some more work in the upstairs bar. By upstairs I mean 36th floor.

Me and Cookie decided that as we had a couple of hours to kill before we had to head to the airport we would head beachwards. after struggling to persuade the taxi man there must be a beach within an hours drive we finished up at the harbour by the Golden Gate bridge. Was so nice to walk along the sand, paddling a bit (a lot) and wondered all the way to the bottom of the Golden Gate bridge. Loads of kodak moments (shot on a Nokia, go figure). We saw the protected albatrosses fly past us in a group. They basically patrol Alcatraz now, and anyone caught touching them can be jailed. So yes if they attach you, all you can do is run the hell away. So the rumour says anyway.

After walking around for around 30 mins we finally found a taxi, back to hotel for bags then straight back into taxi for the airport. Bought some gin then got on the plane, which is where I am now sitting writing this with Cookie asleep next to me. I’m gunna pop off for a nap any second now too, G&T and a bottle of wine will help with that.

Big love and will probably have seen most of you before I get around to posting this.

I shall skip the boring parts of day 3, breakfast and morning work were boring as you can expect. Lunch picked up, we went to meet up with Eddie from www.eddie.com, he’s one of the assistant directors of the Spike Lee collaboration film called Nokia Productions (good name hey?!?), and more importantly, he is a thoroughly nice chap. He’d recommended that we go to this little French bistro in South Park. And very nice it was too, I was still bulging from breakfast and the site of the massive baguette was exactly what I needed. As we left Eddie took us on a brief tour of the landmarks, the building opposite was the Twitter HQ. I resisted twittering saying I was outside (just), now I kinda wish I had photo’ed, but to be honest it would have been a boring picture. The office looks more like a little secluded house, there was no forms of branding etc. The next place on the web 2.0 tour was the Organic building, where Wired is/was based and where Yahoo do a load of stuff. Uber interesting to see how unglamorous these places are.

Hotel, work, boring, prep for the event in the evening. The event went really well and everyone seemed to have a good time. I wont go into detail.

Afterwards we popped for another drink with Eddie, I don’t know where this bar was because Eddie drove, all I remember is an extensive list of whiskeys/gins on a chalk board. Sehr cool.

That’s day 3 done and dusted.

With day one out of the way, we can focus on day two. My first full day in San Francisco. Full day is an accurate way to describe it. Awake at 3 (stupid jetlag), I did a few hours work before heading down for breakfast with the no longer drunk Galbo. Buffet is the best way to do breakfast, two massive platefuls of bacon, sausage, egg and potatoes later I felt quite ill. Will have to have a lie down before I get onto anymore work me thinks.

Popped over to check out the venue for the event on Tues night (today is Monday), was weirded out by the total change in social class on the drive over. Went from Union square, which is an up market shopping district, through an area that looked like absolutely everyone was a scag head. My suspicions proven by a couple of people seemingly openingly doing some stuff I’m sure they shouldn’t be doing on the streets. Passing through this area we got to City Hall, the opera house and the symphony building. How can all this be within a minutes taxi ride from such poverty? I think it was Mr Galbo who was telling me that there is a serious problem in San Fran with poverty, that there really is a divide between the have and the have nots. (A point which I will pick up on more in a later article about a book I’ve just finished).

City Hall was awash with TV crews, because of this I decided that after checking out the venue I would walk the half mile or so back there and have a whack about. The TV crews were all around due to the San Francisco politicians deciding that it was time to allow gay marriages, and that the first one was going to be legalized at 5:01. There is a real back story to this, which I semi picked up watching hours of repeated news in the hotel. Something along the lines of gay marriages previously being legalized, then they changed their minds and cancelled all the marriage (anyone know more on this?). Wondering through I happy snapped pictures on my n95 8gb to my hearts content. Then noticed a guy with a better camera (TV dude) so had a quick natter with him. Later to be quite surprised to see he had donned a tie and was presenting the report for a local news service.

After all this excitement I went back to the hotel to do some more work.

That evening we all decided to pop out for dinner, all being me, Galbo and Cookie Monster aka Pete. We ended up wondering all the way to Polk, around 20 blocks or so up Sutter. We found this little Chinese place, through desperation rather than desire we went in. The food really wasn’t that great, but they had Cobra so pleasure/pain yoghurt advert I guess. After the quick munch we headed over the road to the Blur bar, a wannabee trendy bar which seemed just dark and depressive. Always funny for the bargirl to try and sell you cheap fags too.

Next we popped next door to a bar I don’t remember the name of, something Tavern, you’d think I’d Google research it, but no. A cool upbeat rocky bar with a dj and a pool table. We jumped onto the pool table (to play, not literally jumped on) and stayed there for an hour or so. I dominated Galbo and Cookie, but got beat by a Texan guy who was taking it extremely seriously. Poor Chap, he really was rubbish and if I’d been playing properly, or had played American tables at all recently, I’d of kicked his arse too. He did however get a bit grumpy when I had 2 shots after he potted the white (scratched). Stupid American rules!

Left the Tavern, walked back, and bed, night night and onto day 3.

• Munching breakfast down! #
• Can you see alcatraz from your breakfast table? #
• @msjen HHHHEEEEYYYYYYYYYYLLLLOOOOO 🙂 #
• Serving guy is crazy, he just said to me “told you so”, but made no reference to anything else #
• @bryan Mahalo meaning? Im gunna guess hello in some form? 😛 #
• Ok now the breakfast man is hitting on me :S #
• @bryan Just been saying it to myself, and cant help but sound (or try to) Hawaiian #
• @bryan I’m sure it actually is as rediculous as you’re imagining #
• @ricgalbraith get your own table! im having a nice romantic breakfast, just me and twitter and msn and email #
• Discovering #
• @sebroberts check out my blog colinmercer.co.uk #

• San Francisco Day 1 P1 http://tinyurl.com/6mo48c #
• Just back from breakfast, if only a power nap was an option 🙁 #
• Off for lunch in the sun, lovely weather #
• Listening to city and colour, some how always makes work flow #
• Bye Bye france #

• What a horrendous journey! Can it get worse? Will blog the incidents laters #
• is this basketball something important? Lots of people at the tv’s. #
• @arnold who are the purple and golds? i can only find celtics lakers on tv now? #
• Heres some tweets i wrote earlier which didnt post….[spam] #
• People eat weirdly here #
• Just asked in restaurant/bar if the steak comes with chips, took ages to twig why i was getting such a strange look back #
• Steaks dont come with fries?!? #
• Budweiser and Lamb Shank in “Authentic” irish bar #
• Feeling bad for the guy wondering around who is clearly lost looking for the pissers, will be me later #
• Two people next to me are clearly on a date, the dude is doing well, i should interrupt? #
• Ok i’m done wit that spam now [/spam] #
• @bryan 😀 glad to be of use! #
• @arnold dude said it came with a little bit of salad. i think he realised i was a brit and that a 12oz steak is big for us. #
• GOOD MORNING Twitter USA #
• GOOD AFTERNOON Twitter UK #
• @missdd not there, but watching launch online! Heading up for breakfast on the 32nd floor soon ;p #
• So it appears that same sex marriages are being legalised in CA this evening. This seems suspicious with just me and galbo here #
• Haribo for breakfast!! #
• @jakkychamp what a load of “who har”. no questions over why a charity worker was in a casino gambling the raised money away #
• @ricgalbraith breakfast soon? text me when u get out of bed you lazy BEEP #
• @Jeremy_Jeffers get off the bandwagon #
• too much breakfast, need lie down 😛 #
• MSN broke again 🙁 #
• Back from Venue for tomorrow night, looking very nice #
• OMG NO… ANDY GRAY is commentating on Euro’s for ESPN 🙁 #
• Disappointed that i am leaving the states before Discovery Black Gold is on 🙁 #