Golden Gate Bridge

Today I talked to my recruiter. He asked me how I was and instead of asking me what I was doing told me what I should be doing.
He said, "I'm sitting here in my cubicle staring at a wall. You need to be outside. You need to be getting a tan. You need to enjoy your unemployment until the weather gets shitty."

I'm smiling on the other end of the phone nodding thinking "Yes, he is so right. I can certainly afford to be getting a tan. I have no financial obligations. In fact, why did I ever bother getting a job in the first place? Why has my job not been getting a tan all my life? He has stumbled upon the answer to all my life's questions. I can answer any thing with variations of "I should be getting a tan."

When I hung up the phone with him I looked at my taped foot looked at the sun shining outside and assessed that maybe he was kind of right. Why not take advantage, just a little? So I decided to walk a path to the Golden Gate Bridge to Sausalito.

Walking wasn't so awful. I took some pictures along the way and I wonder if you'll agree the one below is just so very odd.

It says "object or missle" Is that odd to just me? Why do they have to specify? Was it common at one time for people to be walking about with missiles? When did the state of California find it necessary to create Penal Code sec 2193?
"It seems a lot of people have been walking around with missles, we think they might be wanting to drop them over the side of one of our bridges. Let's make a law prohibiting this."

I would think if you wanted to drop a missle over a bridge you wouldn't so much care about Penal Codes. Just my thought.

The other sign is about the Crisis Counseling. The Golden Gate bridge is very pretty and a little majestic and it attracts a lot of jumpers. And this is kind of sad and I wouldn't be honest if I didn't tell you I morbidly thought walking across it "Will I see someone attempting to jump?" It's an awful thing for anyone to do or want to do...but I fantasized walking up to them "Wait, don't do it, you have so much to live for. I'm unemployed and going broke and I sleep on my friends couch...and...wait...let me join you?" I do think it's a little funny that the sign reminds the person who went out there to jump and die that their decision is "fatal."

Seriously though it is very sad and there's a great documentary on it. It's hard to find. The family folk at blockbuster don't rent it out and netflix has it on back rental for a few months.

But if you have the chance, it is well made.

http://www.thebridge-themovie.com/new/index.html

That's all kind of a downer. Not like in the movie Heathers where suicide is what all the cool kids do. I don't want to end with that.

Today was lovely and there were lots of kite surfers and this has to be my next endeavor. It seems so liberating to surf and fly around with a large kite. Although the guy pictured below, I saw about 20 yards from him this sea creature surfacing and going under the water. I could have been a sea lion but it could have been a shark. I wanted to shout down to him "There's a sea creature, be careful." But I feared passersby would think I was talking to a jumper and they'd think I was insensitive.

A news crew would show up and they'd report

"The jumper was about to jump and all she could think to say was some dumb warning about sea creatures. What an inhumane jerk."

This did not happen but I am inspired to look into this kite surfing...I'll let you know how that turns out.