Painless arrival in LA

ByGwyn Fisher

100_2666 and caught up with lots of old friends from Santa Cruz in the Biltmore Hotel slap bang in the centre of L.A. All expenses paid by USC and a stretch from the usual Hotel Universo (with its Bar Galaxia…). Waking up the next day I looked out the window and saw a complex sprinkler system I wasn’t sure what it was until I remembered we were in LAlalandia and they were filming some scene for a pilot tv episode which required rain and lots of extras with umbrellas… We got the dog transport cage, located last year’s tax forms, and have more or less arranged Thursday’s trip north…

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Plans for the next week: a fair bit of painting / decorating and at some point I want to fit in a trip to the cinema to see 300.

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Merry Christmas peeps

I just sent this YouTube link to Jose. Hall and Oates are two of his favourite all-time recording “artists”. Then I thought it was too good not to share with a wider public.

Enjoy!

Photos from Tequila.

100_3549A pleasant day chilling in Amatitan and Tequila, Jalisco. I learnt that the Spanish for Demijohn is Dama Juana, which makes sense. Don’t know which word came first… Ah here we go: “Probably alteration of French dame-Jeanne : dame, lady; see dame + Jeanne, personal name.” Doesn’t really explain why, but that’s something to google another day.

Now I fancy watching a film or summink. Pictures from today should eventually be here and also on Flickr. The photo to the right’s my favourite.

Cow magnets

Flash recently alerted her readers to the existence of cow magnets. Which I think is delightful. I’m pondering ordering the Bessie Bovine explains all educational package (ages 6 and up)… Nothing worse than Hardware Disease… particularly relevant for Michael Eavis and his surfeit of tent pegs apparently.

So yesterday we wandered over to Berkeley Marina, a place I’d been before back in the dark old days as a NGO program manager for various conferences. It was nice to reclaim it as a site for walking and photography rather than learning about sustainability and human resources. We wandered along the lengthy pier and then had a Flip This House marathon evening with the remains of Meg’s surplus wine from the night before.

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This morning we helped shift a few boxes for T’s move-in over in Oakland and discovered the delights of Zachary’s pizza and I had my first ever go on a Nintendo Wii. This afternoon, we’ll probably get out to enjoy the sunshine somewhere local and stockpile vitamin D for the deskbound coming week.

In Taunton’s local rag, The Gazette, there’s a first for local small-town journalism. At the time of writing, they managed to publish a headline for an Easter Extravaganza without resorting to spelling it Eggstravaganza. Which I think is laudable and without precedent. Maybe they’re moving upmarket or have just hired a new staff writer…

3 Comments

  1. Glad everything is going well. Geraldine and I have been to Bath today.John is having a great time in wengen with lots of snow and a few black runs!
    love to all, mum

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