Technological panic

I have a new camera.  I should be excited and on some level, I am, but I am also a little bit afraid.  I bought the camera yesterday and brought it back to my kids' apartment, unwrapped it and figured I could just point and shoot.  Wrong!  There is an entire CD with instructions on how to use the damned thing.  There are knobs and buttons and settings and all sorts of fancy things I could do with this new piece of equipment if I wasn't so nervous of it.  I'm sure I'll get the hang of it eventually.


Shame really because San Francisco is filled with the most bizarre assortment of people I have even seen collected in one place.  Old, young, gay, straight, crack-addled, transvestite, you name it,  I have seen them all on the bus.  Yesterday I saw some homeless people sleeping on the street with their wheelchairs securely fastened at their sides.  I have never seen that before.


The weather is beautiful, hot and sunny, but it feels so odd to me since in my mind summer is already over.  The city is sweet.  Small and manageable.  I like being here and feel very relaxed and easy about getting about on my own.


I have also been cooking while I've been here.  it's awfully hard for me to just be on holiday.  i have to keep busy and cooking for an appreciative audience is part of my way of relaxing.  In a few days I'll be in Connecticut and see my dad.  That still is part of my holiday time and I have to remind myself of that.  My brother tells me that my father is not really very aware of anyone anymore and has reverted to speaking Yiddish.  At least I will understand him.  the people in the home he lives in don't, but it doesn't really matter since he doesn't make much sense anymore.


I am really looking forward to seeing my brother and then going hone and seeing Ralph.