Today is (was) Wednesday. I had an 0900 appointment at the SFVA. Since traffic going into San Francisco totally and completely sucks, I drive in early. You have already read my rant back a few months about the change in the Bay Bridge metering lights. Today was no exception. It took me longer to get from the maze through the lights than it took to get to from home to the Emeryville turn at the start of the maze or to get across, through the SF freeway \onto Octavia and heading down Lincoln toward the Pacific Ocean.
I would have finished a shawl early this morning while waiting in the parking garage had I not dropped the yarn resulting in a mess which looked completely cat tangled and took almost two hours to unravel. Hint – yarn loosely wound into a cake can do a sudden dive into total chaos in less than a second. End result was that I made my appointment on time, but my lab results were late getting back which put me on a delay resulting in not starting till afternoon. The last couple of cycles, I was out of there prior to 1300…
This gave me enough time to straighten out the yarn, finish the shawl (which all the nurses there just loved the colors) and knit more rows on the 10-stitch blanket. I didn’t finish at the Infusion Center till 1600 which dropped me in the worst of traffic. It took more than an hour to get from the VA to the East Bay side of the Bridge. Traffic is now worse, I think, than prior to the pandemic with more people driving. I am one of them; I used to use BART, the shuttle, the bus & BART to make the round trip. It used to be more time consuming, I now think it might just take less time…
I was completely wiped by the time I got to the Ashby exit – but the West Berkeley Bowl is there…. and they had cherries….. I needed the treat.
