No blogging yesterday as I was up early to be in San Francisco for 10:00am and didn’t get back until about 12 hours later, by which time all I wanted to do was sleep.

I spent the intervening hours taking Zoran & Mia Živković round the sights of San Francisco. We did the usual tourist stuff: Union Square, Ferry Building, Fisherman’s Wharf, Hyde Pier, street cars, cable cars, Lombard Street, Marriott View Bar. However, it was the unplanned events that will probably leave the sharpest memories.

While we were walking down Powell to Market Street a young lady rushed past us shouting “I’m a lesbian, I’m a lesbian” at the top of her voice. I’m guessing that she was celebrating the signing of the Hate Crimes Bill, but she could just have been happy about life.

Valencia Street was in a state of chaos when we arrived. The San Francisco-based TV series, Trauma, was shooting some scenes in the small park right next to the Borderlands store. Thankfully the TV crew were very understanding about our need to get buses and people inside their security cordon and the signing event went very well.

And if that wasn’t enough, down by the 16th Street crossing someone was threatening to throw himself off a roof, do the police had a couple of blocks cordoned off. I have no idea what the final outcome of this was. Presumably it will be in the Chronicle today.