The outpouring of birthday love continued on Saturday. Sam baked a dish of potatoes Au Gratin and brought a birthday cake (remembering that my favorite was strawberry shortcake/white cake).  After eating we went to watch Fuel in Encino. Fuel didn’t have a lot of new information.  In fact it was kind of annoying, in the […]

On Friday Byron and I were all set to go to Shamshiri before he hoofed it to Disneyland, but we were alerted via Justin to an impromptu car show unfolding in the previously-known-as-albertson’s parking lot.  Here are some shots: Really well kept Camaro. Is this a challenger?  Reminds me of Death Proof. This funky piece […]

Yesterday in the mail came a nondescript manila envelope.  The return address was from my uncle.  It was then I remembered him asking me for my address as he wanted to send me something from my distant past.  I opened up the envelope and in between pieces of cardboard were several drawings and coloring book […]

So this is shaping up to be the weirdest birthday.  Since my birthday technically isn’t for another three days I’m going to chop this up into parts in case anything else strange happens. Part one involves a rather large styrofoam package being delivered to my office: Upon opening…. And finally, contents are revealed: One very […]

On Day Four we headed across town on the 101 to Silverlake to visit the Wacko “Soap Store” and De Jesus Gallery.    While parking outside the first meter stole our money.  We were amused (recall my recent blog about the new meme) by the flashing “FAIL” sign. (yes, I know this is on all meters […]

For Day #3 we headed to Pasadena to start off our day with Afloat Sushi.  Well technically I started off my day with two hours of quant problems on Queueing theory – but that isn’t very exciting, is it? After filling up with rice and fish we went to the Norton Simon and walked the […]