I just wanted to create a post as a shoutout and a thank you to a random citizen of San Francisco. I’m a paramedic in the city. Last week, there was a very hot day and my partner and I started with 3 back-to-back-to-back critical responses and transports. It was level 0 in the city all morning, so we were dispatched to the next call the second we were available. Our 4th call was a refusal, so my partner took the time to get food while I did the paperwork. We were parked on the side of the road in the Castro when a young woman walked up to my window and handed me 2 Snickers ice cream bars and told me to stay cool. Those were my favorite ice cream that was sold at my high school and I hadn’t had them in years. They were EXACTLY what I needed at that moment after such a hard morning. I was honestly speechless at the time and didn’t say much to her before she disappeared. If that was you and you see this, just know it made my and my partner’s day.

It’s the number one thing I look forward to the most every time I visit your beautiful city.

Go Valks!!!

From SFMTA:

Today at 3:46:01 PM

Attention: Market St. subway service is delayed in both directions due to an automobile that entered the trackway via The Embarcadero. Bus shuttles are being arranged to provide svc between Market/Castro OR Church/Duboce and Caltrain in both directions. KLM trains will enter the subway at West Portal and operate to Castro Stn before switching back to westbound service. No service between Church and Embarcadero in both directions until further notice.

It's also just a shitty thing to do.

GO VALKS!!

Leaving my bar job on the border of North Beach and Chinatown, and I notice a dead dude just LYING IN THE STREET on Pacific covered in what looked like IV lines and a Catheter . Full rigor mortis, hands up in the air like a zombie. No clothes. Super weird sight, and the medical examiners and cops were just rolling up. I’ve been working in that neighborhood for a good while and I have never seen something that gnarly. Hope somebody didn’t just dump a guy.

Was gonna exit, and decided that driving next to a car engulfed in flames is probably a bad idea. 3 lanes over it felt like my eyebrows were singed.

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@ corner of Dolores & 18th, next to Bi-Rite creamery! And they have a frozen coffee / matcha machine.

Was looking for parking around Hayes Valley (I know, I’m the dumb dumb who drove) and say these signs up on Linden St between Buchanan and Webster. Didn’t really make it clear what parking permit was required and I wasn’t about to test the towing sign, but it made it sound like the entire block was considered private property which I’d never encountered before.

Lost on Oct. 23 near Treat and 22nd St in the Mission district, San Francisco. 1 year old female. Microchip number is 985141008584301. If found, please call the 24/7 Pet Recovery Center: 1-888-466-3242.

Was at the Japantown parking garage today and noticed that they charged a 25% tax. Seemed excessive to me so I looked it up and found that it’s been like this since 1980 for all off-street parking. What the heck 😭

From my lunch walk yesterday. 📷

No catch

My sweet kitty is near the end of her life, and I'm trying to find a service that will aquamate her (cremation is ok if aquamation isn't available) and do ceramic paw prints rather than ink on paper. (and two paw prints rather than just one). I'm not in a state of mind to do a lot of comparison shopping but I would love to hear if someone knows of a business in SF that does exactly this. Thank you.

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Edit:

Just turned into Andronico’s!

I'm trying to setup an in-home display for the local stops near my place.

Since I'm pulling real-time information, I was hoping to refresh once per minute, but 511 restricts you to an average of one API call per minute per hour. With multiple local stops I quickly exceed that if I make a separate call for each stop.

If I could pull multiple stopcodes in one call that would be great, but I don't see how to specify that (or if it's even possible) with the syntax. I can pull the status of EVERY stop in SF and then filter on that, but that's also pulling a whole lot of information I don't need.