and also this sad news Gee, does anybody see the connection here? America is getting left behind in economic, educational and technological progress and SURPRISE! we all still think a magical bearded man in the sky is going to solve our problems. Historians will one day look back on our society and wonder how we […]
falling
found this interesting article this morning
Old Getty Road
On Monday I took my parents to the Getty Villa in Malibu. I never knew I lived a 15 mile jaunt down the mountain away from the ocean. I’ll have to take advantage of that in the future. I don’t know what my parents’ impression of the Villa was – but I was a bit […]
Japamerican Tough Guys
Sunday morning started with a trip to the Japanese Garden. I had already been rebuffed on two separate occasions by the Tillman Water Reclamation Plant and so I was ready to be wowed. I was thoroughly underwhelmed. Most of the vegetation was struggling to keep it’s green, and there didn’t seem to be much variation […]
The Pumpkin Charmer
Beverly came around noon with nice flowers for my mom. It was then that my weakness was exposed for all the world to see. We went to Target and found a vase to put the flowers in. Yaw and Justin rolled in before 4pm. And then – the feast (that mom, almost exclusively mom, had […]
Calendar Girl
More from the trip to Phoenix, including a photo me getting the ball-slap-handshake can be found here very soon.
locked and loaded
My thanksgiving weekend started on Thanksgiving morning with a heaping helping of Beverly’s veal Parmesan. I had to leave in a hurry though to go home and prepare for the imminent of arrival of some special guests. I picked up my parents at 6:30 from Bob Hope airport. They wanted to eat dinner, but our […]
the friendliest airport in America
On Sunday we checked out of the hotel and headed straight back to the spot we’d left the night before. We headed east around Bell Rock and quickly noted that with the amount of photo-stoppage time that would be applied to our game – we’d never finish before the buzzer (our park pass from Saturday […]
for whom the bell rocks
Saturday morning we awoke to sounds of ducks outside our window providing pre-game entertainment. After The Game we at lunch at the Red Chopstick. Best Chinese cuisine in town – of course it was also the only Chinese cuisine in town. After filling our bellies we went a few hundred feet north and turned into […]
hop skip and hobble
After a short hop across highway 10 east I landed at the Phoenix airport around 11am. 45 minutes later I was in a rental car and on my way to the Valley Ho hotel to pick up Beverly from her conference. The hotel was totally remodelled to be straight out of a 60s late night […]