Notices by Devin (carraway@sfba.social)

When cleaning out my late father's place, one of the things I did to process the end of his independence was restore a bunch of the hand tools he'd used most of his working life. I looked forward to the ones I remembered from summers working on his job sites.

This was not one of those, nor was it complex. But it was one of the first, and I let myself go pointlessly overboard (it was fall 2020, you might remember the feeling; there were a few things going on.) It's just a pipe wrench (he did fancy kitchen and bathroom remodels, understandable he'd have one.) When I found it it was rusty and half-seized. Got it apart, wire-wheeled it down to clean metal, masked it, primed and repainted it, etc.

It was a good mourning-the-everything evening project.

#FathersDay #ToolRestoration

"I believe that in the long term, the only job that AI can't replace is the fascist."

@sewblue @valhalla Oh, didn't even think about that one. And now I'm fantasizing about some sort of block-long tracked sewing machine for line-stitching new sewer pipe at 15mph. Perhaps the theme from some of the Mad Max movies could play.

I did put in an SF311 ticket saying roughly "this hole is expanding outside your original lane closure and cars are swerving." It got juggled around, duped and un-duped and there's never any substantive reply to these things, so I can't tell if that was why they adjusted the closure, or if they came back to check on their own, or whatever else, or what's gone on with the (pre?)-planned relaying work.

I'm sure this can be blamed on cars somehow.

#sinkhole #MissionSt

@sewblue Made sort of safe, anyway. SFDPW closed one lane on the northbound side (far side in that photo), but left both southbound lanes open. At the time I passed it the first time the hole had already widened to the point where cars' tires were audibly thunking against the far side of the hole in the inner southbound lane, or swerving into the outer one.

Passed by again a few days later and they'd been back to extend the closure across that lane too, either before or after the collapse widened further.

There's sewer piping staged nearby and notices of impending parking restrictions but I haven't followed that work closely enough to know whether part of the work caused the hole, was a response to the hole, or a response to the state of the sewer which made the hole more likely.