On Monday I hurried down to West Los Angeles with a growling stomach after work. Beverly works for a British organization, and I work for a company birthed in the San Fernando Valley, yet she had Columbus Day off (and I didn’t). To ease my pain she decided to cook me dinner. She cooked a […]
peace meal
For the past week my coworkers have been dropping like flies. Some sort of bug has nested in our little building. I started feeling funky last week – and still feel funky today. Even so, I wasn’t about to cancel on my dinner date with Beverly. I had promised her a home cooked meal – […]
boring bot
After Victor helped me retrieve some deleted data from my hard drives this morning (my external is still a total loss, though) we headed down to the Wired NextFest. We parked at the meters a few blocks away from the convention center – a trick I learned years ago that has never failed (to keep […]
d’oh mo
time passes
On Sunday my parents and I went out for a gut-busting breakfast at Denny’s before I dropped them off at LAX. I guess they had an okay time, but I felt like a poor host. For almost half their visit they were sweating in near three-digit indoor heat. Saturday I managed to completely obliterate my […]
snapp to it
On Saturday I brought my parents to the Buckeye packed Yankee Doodles in Woodland Hills. Steve Snapp’s older brother was on hand to shake hands and squeeze out alumni dollars. After the (predictable) buckeye win we stayed an extra ten minutes to see the thrilling conclusion of Michigan’s season opener that will surely go down […]
hot child in the city
After arriving home very late on Wednesday night I was delighted (with sarcasm) to feel the hot air of a broken air conditioner greet me once again at my door. My parents were coming on Friday morning – so I bought new fuses (again) on Thursday after work and installed them. My prayers would not […]
Apple and AT&T – two faulty products made for each other
I’ve been saying this for years! My Cingular service in Los Angeles (any part) was always horrible. My Verizon service (that I’ve had for 9 months) has been near perfect. Couple that with this and you’ve got some bad bad news for AT&T (and a smile on my face).
Garden Variety
Eight months earlier I’d taken my parents to Huntington Library and Gardens. My parents decided to forgo the Garden to get on with the other scheduled events of the day (which was lunch at Houston’s I believe and then The Gamble House). On Sunday I revisited the Garden with Beverly after stopping for lunch at […]
wow…okay…
cute and cuddly?