wherein Liz rambles about warnings; also, a smoke shop construction update

I have nothing new or of any particular relevance to say about the warnings debate that has been flying around metafandom this past week, but some of the posts have made interesting reading. I had never thought about stories triggering people, but now that this has been brought to my attention, I think it is only common decency to stop causing easily avoided harm to people.

Since I already thought it was common courtesy to warn people about potentially objectionable content (I use that phrasing because the idea of content being actively harmful had honestly not occurred to me), I have tried to be conscientious about filling out a warnings line when cross-posting stories to fic communities, and when posting stories on public archives. And I have bolded warnings in my master directory archive posts on my own journal.

But I have not been particularly conscientious about putting warnings in front of stories on the actual journal posts, which is a little odd now that I think about it. I suppose I tend to assume that if someone is reading my personal journal, they are likely to already know something about my personal thematic quirks and the series for which I write.

( This is lazy and indefensible, especially since I don't lock posts... )

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In other news, the construction workers shut off the water to the smoke shop's building this morning. This was scheduled to happen from 7:30am to 8:30am. The actual timing was 7:10am to about 9:45am. This meant JM and AO did not get all the coffee made before they ran out of water, and we had several unhappy customers -- including the construction workers, who came in on their morning break and wanted to buy coffee!

I am of the opinion that if you say you're going to shut the water off at 7:30, you shut it off at 7:30 or maybe a few minutes later. I can understand running behind schedule getting it turned back on, but an early shutdown is abominably rude.

question re: seasons in Star Trek XI

The Star Trek: AOS story I am trying to write (still tentatively titled "The Light in Your Eyes," though I am growing less and less certain about that phrase's applicability) is set between the Enterprise's return to Earth and the ceremony and departure at the end of the film.

I am not familiar with the climate of San Francisco. Is anybody able to tell, from the brief scene-setting shots, what time of year it is meant to be? I'm guessing mid-to-late spring at the earliest, and late summer or very early autumn at the latest (judging by the foliage), but I'm not sure what San Francisco has by way of seasons, and, therefore, what months qualify as late spring or late summer.

I am not talking about calendrical or astronomical seasons. I am talking about seasons as defined by local temperature and plant growth. For example, spring doesn't really start in Ithaca until the first or second week of April, no matter what the calendar says about equinoxes.

So can anyone help me out? I need this information to judge the kind of off-duty clothes people might wear, and to figure the time of local sunset, which is important for two minor plot-related reasons, and which must be accurate because I am writing in Spock's POV!

Also, just as a point of information, I am assuming that in Star Trek's version of the 20th century, the Eugenics Wars disrupted global climate change enough that by the time it got bad, technology and/or a world government were in better shape to deal with it, so the future earth has basically our current climate, or even a slightly cooler one.

(Yes, I really am this obsessive sometimes.)