Saturday I joined Beverly and her father for a trip to the Getty Center. I’d been there many times before – but never in the winter. The changing exhibits were all video installations (which we all agreed were a waste of time). In one of the buildings there was a “classroom” setting where “students” could take a set of drawing utensils and paper and draw a few statues. We decided to draw each other instead.

After the Getty we made a long trek to Alhambra to eat dinner at an “authentic” chinese restaurant. It must be authentic because her father (straight from China without a lick of English) agreed it tasted like home. After dinner came a protracted conversation (Beverly getting lots of practice for her translation-services part-time business) about business opportunities between America and China.

After dinner Beverly and I tried (unsuccessfully) to get her father’s Chinese language laptop to connect to her neighbor’s wireless connection.