In which Bob goes to San Francisco for two weeks of training at SCS Global Services – February 2 – 17
FLYING IN
Verdant hills and rich farmland.
HENRY
How nice to have a good friend on the other end! Henry, one of Bob’s high school roommates at TASIS (The American School in Switzerland) picked Bob up and took him home where he and his wife, Kelly, live above a green, grassy slope,
AN AFTERNOON OUT
Henry and Kelly and Bob took the BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit) to meet Heidi, another TASIS alumni, for lunch.
HOME COOKING
Most evenings Bob made himself a grilled cold cut sandwich (because toaster ovens are the absolute worst way to toast bread) and a cider. On his last weekend in the bay area, he spent the night at Henry and Kelly’s and Henry made huevos rancheros with pico de gallo for breakfast.
PHOEBE
Henry and Kelly’s new pup promises to be a big dog one day soon.
THE WORK SIDE TO THIS PLEASURE TRIP
Here is the view of San Francisco Bay from the conference room at SCS Global Services. This is where Bob went every day to sip from a fire hose of administrative knowledge. After training he will take on admin responsibilities in addition to auditing ethanol producers and other carbon-reducing industries to sustainability standards.
And here is Bob after winning a bottle of wine at work for finding the winning ticket in a piece of Valentine’s Day chocolate. Yes, he and Camille were separated for the heart holiday, but the lonely hearts club isn’t so bad when surrounded by playful, generous co-workers.
COMMUTE PATH
Bob stayed in a cottage close enough to SCS to walk to work. Here is a 1956 Chevy Impala, manufactured halfway between Bob and Camille’s birth years. More proof that they don’t make them like they used to.
Sunlight on part of an underground art piece, and a one-dimensional cubist horse and rider also gave Bob something to look at during his thirty-minute walks to and from work.
CALENDAR ART
Here’s another piece of public art, a mysterious sort of calendar.
EARTH JUSTICE
A BART station Earth Justice ad reads: “We’ve sure Trump 100+ times…because the earth needs a good lawyer. Bob sees a freight train pulling a long line of ethanol tankers and thinks he will never get too far from that corn-based fuel.
FLYING OUT
A nice view of the bay area, and what he recognized immediately as the San Andreas Fault.