I tried In N’ Out burger for the first time on Friday thanks to a generous friend from Texas and his \u201cI\u2019m going to get you something for your birthday\u201d ways. All I gave him for his was a t-shirt\u2026I\u2019m such a bad friend\u2026 anyway\u2026 In N\u2019 Out was cool, but not what I had expected. The burger was fine, sort of like a better quality big mac (complete with secret sauce). Their fries were actually not good at all, too little and too crispy to enjoy the potato-ness. Their saving grace is their milkshakes though, which are made with real ice cream. AND they give you free little packets of whole banana peppers, which is AWESOME! I took home about 12 peppers to use in my home cooking. <\/p>\n
On Saturday I played racquetball with Jay, one of Amy\u2019s friends from Boston. I really need to find people to play ball with on a regular basis, that game is so much fun\u2026and such a good workout for the lungs and heart.<\/p>\n
After the game Amy and I proceeded to Pasadena to watch the second half of the OSU vs. Iowa game. We walked in to see a 0-24 score\u2026and promptly walked out; I don\u2019t need Justin Zwick to ruin another Saturday for me. So, we went to eat in Old Pasadena. After coming home I decided to wash all the clothes that were brought in the moving truck a few weeks ago (they acquired a very strange smell somewhere between Ohio and California). That was rough and took about five hours\u2026but they are done now. That was the last little thing I had left to do to settle in.<\/p>\n
One very cool thing happened Saturday. It rained. I had to live in California for almost two whole months before I saw\/felt rain. At first it was really soft, and then during the night it came down in Ohio sized torrents. One of the few things I missed about the East was ironically the terrible thunderstorms.<\/p>\n
Sunday I went to the Brewery Art Walk with Amy. Basically it is the same as the Gallery Hop in Columbus but on a larger scale, in an artist community (the \u201cBrewery Art Colony\u201d) on the east side of downtown LA. I was so disappointed. I can see how people who aren\u2019t artists are totally turned off my art these days. We walked around for an hour or two and I only found one artist that was making interesting and\/or quality work – http:\/\/www.lindalundell.com\/oilpaintings.htm<\/a> The paintings are much much more vivid in person, and most are wall-sized. We had actually gone to the art walk because a musician Aaron and I are going to jam with on Wednesday lives there. We weren\u2019t able to find the guy and he didn\u2019t answer his phone. On Tuesday I put an ad up on craigs list about wanting to start a band. I got more than twenty responses (so far) and this guy seems the coolest. We\u2019ll see.<\/p>\n After that we went to Hollywood to see the Hollywood and Highland shopping center (adjacent to the Chinese Theater and on the walk of fame). Once we got there I realized I had driven by it the second day I was in Los Angeles when Aaron had directed me to the West Hollywood US Bank. Apparently I\u2019ve driven by the Hollywood sign a few times already and not had the sense to just look over to my left. Actually, I pass the Hollywood sign every morning on my way to work\u2026I\u2019m just on the wrong side of the hill!<\/p>\n So that was fun. I tried In N’ Out burger for the first time on Friday thanks to a generous friend from Texas and his \u201cI\u2019m going to get you something for your birthday\u201d ways. All I gave him for his was a t-shirt\u2026I\u2019m such a bad friend\u2026 anyway\u2026 In N\u2019 Out was cool, but not what I had […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":99,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/99"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nNext Saturday Amy and I are going to San Diego and then Tijuana. That should be fun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"