Writing these is weird now. The only folks that read them are Mom, Dad, maybe Lois, and myself when I’m looking up some tidbit of info about something we did a long time ago. Sorry if anybody else reads this and thinks “hey!” – let me know! My parents came to visit for five days […]
The Coming Storm
It’s a rare rainy day in Los Angeles, so there’ll be no walks on the beach or shopping excursions to the fancy outdoor mall or (for us) eating an outdoor table at a local restaurant. So I’m thinking about what everyone (at least anyone heavily invested in the stock market) is apparently thinking about: AI. […]
Van City (Not a post about Burning Man)
NOTE: as I was preparing to post this I received an email (which I honestly thought was a phishing scam at first) from YouTube that my channel has been removed because of “severe or repeated violations of our spam, deceptive practices and scams policy.” This took me a while to figure out, but what I gather […]
Or Are We Gone?
After coming back from New Zealand on February 3rd and seeing the chaos the new administration was intent on sowing immediately (an upgraded Bannon “Flood the Zone” tactic, now that all the slightly-less-than-ultra right wing folks like Tillerson that might urge any caution against running afoul of the constitution have been expelled from the cult) […]
It’s only New Zealand once
Friday Every time I write about us going on some trip I have to put the disclaimer about covid cautious behavior. Yes, we ate outside every time (except for planes which require a hold breath, bite/drink, exhale, remask procedure, which sounds ridiculous but it’s that or no water for 13 hours). Yes, masks everywhere. Yes, […]
It can get worse
A few folks have reached out wondering how we’re doing since we live in Los Angeles. Because it’s still a developing situation my update will be short: I wasn’t going to post about this, but I found myself on the blog looking up the locations of some of the places I’d taken my parents on […]
Following the Saint
Friday morning we shut down the house and headed to LAX. Despite a disorganized boarding queueing procedure from Air Canada, the actual flight was not full and we ended up with an empty seat next to us. However, the flight was delayed for about a half hour due to a “maintenance procedure” that prolonged our […]
Visiting the King of Shores
I posted a bit ago about how we’d gone back to Shaw’s Cove for the first time in five years. Part of that was because we’d visited La Jolla Shores on one day down and back trips in 2020 and 2021. Then no swimming at all anywhere in 2022 or 2023. So while it had […]
Getting it right
A month ago we returned to Shaw’s Cove after a 5 year drought to find out that we’d been snorkeling to the wrong side all along. A few coves south lay the Laguna Beach Marine Life Refuge, where most of the juvenile leopard sharks learn to drive. Last time all our friends cancelled on us, […]
On the 1,640th day of hiding, Covid found me
Yeah, the C word. Somehow modern humans found a way to come up with a worse C word than what we already tiptoed around (except in the UK, where it’s cute and sassy for Ricky Gervais to say it!) prior to 2020. So why are we not going back to the cove this weekend? I […]