We’re getting ready to go to the Bay area for a conference and it got me thinking of when I lived and worked there. It was right around the time of the dotcom bust and it was a pretty significant little chunk of my life.I was newly married, in way over my head at a job with a huge company working 3,000 miles from home.
It started to bum me out that I had no sort of archive of these memories aside from a few actual photos (who uses those things?) in a photo album. So for lack of a better place to put it, this post is my archive.
Kristine and I lived in a corporate furnished apartment right next to the Bay Bridge. It was a pretty nice place and it was the first time I ever lived by myself. I walked to work everyday, here is the path I took.
I worked in this building usually on the top floor. Scient had most of the top half of the building so I roamed from floor to floor, but the top one had the best view of both the Bay and the Transamerica Pyramid which was always one of my favorite buildings in town for some reason.
My days consisted of walking to work, working then coming home and ordering something from Kozmo (god I miss Kozmo) and finally going to bed. Looking back I wish I’d done more with the amazing opportunity I was given.
I’m not much of a big city person, but I’d live in San Francisco again in a second. Assuming of course that I could afford to do so. The one bedroom apartment we lived in cost twice as much as my current mortgage and that was eight years ago.
Hopefully on this upcoming trip we’ll get a chance to drive around and I can take some pictures of my own. I guess the moral of this story is stop and take the time to document some of your moments before they are gone forever.
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Aw, this post makes me a little sad. I know how much you liked San Francisco but I was always scared that an earthquake would hit and we would fall from our 16th floor apartment to our deaths. I also remember how windy it was ALWAYS. I remember the tenderloins (only Bill will know what this means unless you know San Fran) and that there were homeless people everywhere. While these are my general thoughts of S.F. I can see why Bill loves it. It’s like no other place.
Posted 03 Aug 2008 at 9:18 pm ¶I remember the first time Bill used Kozmo. He had heard about it from someone and didn’t believe that he could order whatever he wanted and someone would bring it to his door. So, to try it out he ordered a Snickers and nothing else and sure enough the guy came up on his bike with a Snickers bar. Bill was so excited that day.
Kozmo sounds like the greatest thing ever.
Posted 04 Aug 2008 at 6:58 am ¶What are all those big wigs listed on the Scient wiki page doing now? Probably not having top floor corner window offices in Altamonte Springs.
Kristine, it would be an honor to die with Bill no matter the method. I can’t wait to do it at the 40th Birthday Swimming With Perfect Killing Machines Massacre of 2016.
Posted 04 Aug 2008 at 6:54 pm ¶LOL! Good one James!!
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