Well, I got the paperwork from the bank on the condo, so it looks like I'm going to be a homeowner. Of course, I've still got to get through the closing and everything that entails (HOW many types of insurance? Seriously?).

Also, early job-ma for Jilli since I will probably be offline when she's interviewing.

I'm off to Chicago for a week, where I will hang out at my brother's farm in southern Wisconsin and eat for cheap at his restaurant. Gotta take advantage of being unemployed while I can...

Ooh, that sounds good.

Where are you going in San Francisco? You probably won't need the BART, unless you were planning to go to the East Bay.

Um, staying near Hec and JZ, and...I don't know where we were planning to go. Not the East Bay, I don't think.

Coming to San Francisco a week from today

That's the day the strike is likely to start. Keep the car. Unless you're planning to just stay in the city, in which case take a taxi or Uber from the airport and use Muni to get around. As a tourist, you'd only really need BART to get to the East Bay and to/from the airport.

I think we're planning to stay in the city, and we were going to take a cab or a car service back to the airport when we leave.

Is Muni the bus system? Didn't you say that was likely to strike, or did I misunderstand?

Muni the bus system? Didn't you say that was likely to strike

Muni is the San Francisco bus/subway/light rail system. The bus system likely to strike is AC Transit, which is the East Bay bus system (although they also run transbay buses, and that's how I got to work in the city for the past few months).

You'll be fine, except if you intend to rent a car for a day and get out of town, traffic might be heavy, depending on which way you go.

Is Muni the bus system?

Muni is busses and trains, but the trains only operate in the city.

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where I will hang out at my brother's farm in southern Wisconsin and eat for cheap at his restaurant.

If you see a Van Galder bus at the airport, could you wave hello? I rode them regularly when I was in school.

You'll be fine, except if you intend to rent a car for a day and get out of town, traffic might be heavy, depending on which way you go.

Nope -- we're flying in tomorrow (holy crap!), renting a car and going up to Mendocino for 6 days, and coming back down to SF for 3 days.

Will you be back in town next weekend? Tim and I are renting an apartment, rather than a hotel, and we're going to have a wee shindig next Saturday evening. We'd love to see you!

Next weekend, yeah, I'll be back on Friday night. Love to see you guys! (Assuming I can get into the city...)

Right on!

I'll post in F2F, but I also made a FB filter for it, too. (Except I haven't posted anything there yet.) But I don't think we're FB friends. Let me look, and I'll send you a friend request if that's the case.

t edit Yeah, friend request sent.

The Capitol is locked down with reports of gunfire.