After a quicker breakfast at the hotel restaurant we headed to the PIMA air and space museum. We spent most of our time outside in the bitter cold. Dad served in the Air Force during the Vietnam War, so he was very familiar with many of the planes, and even had stories about riding in […]
christmas day 5
Our first full day in Tucson started off with “free” breakfast in the hotel restaurant. High school cafeteria pancakes (or scrambled eggs) were served up with little sausages and a drink. The hotel wasn’t properly staffed for a full house, with only one cook and two waitresses waiting for a whole hungry hotel of guests. […]
christmas day 4
Today was the travel day. Our gracious chauffeur (Sam) dropped us off at LAX with complimentary chocolate milk. Good thing too – because we wouldn’t eat again for about eight hours. When we got to our hotel and tried to get in our cards wouldn’t work. The attendant placed us in an adjacent room with […]
christmas day 3
After mom made french toast we headed to Point Dume. After taking these pictures we got out mom’s binoculars and saw a school of dolphins to the west. We then went down to the beach on the other side of the dome. We tried to find the sea lions but all we saw were birds. […]
christmas day 2
The original plan for December 24th was to start the day off at Miceli’s for lots of Italian carbs before going on a long hike. However, Miceli’s wouldn’t open until noon, which would be 3pm parents’ time, so that was a little too late for a brunch. Instead we went to More than Waffles in […]
christmas day 1
After working nearly a full (stressful) day I picked up my parents at the Burbank airport. We took Vanowen to Sepulveda and went to the 99 Ranch Market for some live crabs. Afterwards I replaced the vacuum band and discovered it still wasn’t working. After much consternation from all three of us, my dad took […]
apparently I CAN get a break
A break in my vacuum cleaner rubber band. Because that is the break I got when I tried to clean my home preparing for my parents’ visit last night. Also of note, as I drove to work this morning I noticed no fewer than eight patrol cars parked across the street by the house that […]
new design
Today I put up the new design for the site. Total time from original design to final fixes was probably something between 15 and 20 hours. This version is much easier for me to update with new artwork – something I needed to do because I’ve done a ton of new stuff since the last […]
top tens
I frankly don’t understand the need to make top ten (or 25, or 50, or 100) lists for the past decade. Why examine the period from 2000 to 2010? Why not 1998 to 2008, or 1995 to 2005? What is the difference? Each industry or category to be measured goes through major hurdles at different […]
Art Walk December
The art walk this month, to put it bluntly, sucked. Sam is convinced that it is because the parking lots around the area raised their prices (our usual place went from $5 to $8), I think it might be the colder weather and the threat of rain (yes, I’m not kidding) that night. Whatever the […]