December 2008
49 posts
Happy to be back in Los Angeles after a hectic, though fun, Thanksgiving week.
November 2008
43 posts
After the last two days, I’m not sure I can watch anymore football. Will still give it the old college try on Saturday and Sunday.
Traffic going in and out of San Francisco is at a stand still for dozens of miles. Getting to Napa is going to take hours. Ugh!
Finally on the road to Monterey. It’s hard to get a family of 12 out of the house and on their way.
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Out to eat with my three-and-a-half year old daughter who just used a pat of butter as hand lotion. “So soft,” she exclaimed.
Just drove past a yarn and knitting store named Happy Hookers. Kinda clever.
Just filled up my car with gas and didn’t have to take out a second mortgage to pay for it. Sweet!
Don’t know whether to be thankful or frightened of the Gelson’s supermarket in Calabasas. It is a gourmet palace with it’s own concierge.
Just received an advertising proposal from a media outlet that began “In these challenging economic times… .” How original.
Google finally but the themes tab on my Gmail settings and I am messing around with them now. So far, Ninja looks kinda cool.
Apparently Google launched a redesign of Gmail. At first I thought I was going insane and had logged into the wrong site.
The 20.1 mile drive from Calabasas to Warner Bros. studio lot in Burbank took 1 hour, 15 minutes. Ugh!
At the Geffen Playhouse to see “By The Waters Of Babylon” by playwright Robert Schenkkan. (Please be good! Please be good! Please be good!)
Finally set up the home theater and stereo equipment in the new house. Hope to test it tonight or tomorrow.
Stumbled across this hole in the wall restaurant in Woodland Hills called My Brother’s Bar-B-Q. It’s been around for years apparently.
Spent the entire afternoon using the pool vacuum to clean ash and debris from the wildfire out of the pool. #lafire
The air quality in the east San Fernando Valley is much better than in the west valley which is completely smoked in. #lafire
My next Twitter follower will be number 500. Who will it be?!
The sky in Los Angeles is filled with smoke and ash from the Sylmar fire. It’s actually getting hard to breath.
Never seen so much smoke. The entire San Fernando Valley is filled with smoke from the Sylmar fire. Visibility is 20-50 feet in most areas.
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Just saw a man walking down the street with a tray of Starbucks coffee, wearing a surgical mask to protect himself from the smoke. #lafire
Watching Jon Stewart and Bill O’Reilly verbally spar on “The Daily Show”. Now that’s entertainment!
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Hulu didn’t have episodes of “The Office” I missed from last season and this season, but found them on bit torrent. Am I a pirate now?
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XM Radio reshuffled their channel lineup to include some the interesting Sirius stations; E Street Radio, NBA, Met Opera, NPR, etc. Awesome!
My three-and-a-half and two year old daughters have completely forgotten about their Halloween candy. Should I remind them?
Darn wars! If it wasn’t for wars, there would be no Veterans Day and if it wasn’t for Veterans Day the preschool would be open today!
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Taking my sick, two-year-old daughter to the doctor this morning was the best bonding experience I’ve ever had with her.
I am feeling horrible today. It’s either election night hangover or I caught whatever ebola virus my 2-year-old brought home from preschool.
Upset that I now live in the Los Angeles equivalent of the suburbs. Wish I were in the city during such a historic event.
It’s hard to believe on a night when Obama won the presidency, it looks as if California will pass proposition 8, the ban on gay marriage.
I don’t think CNN’s holograms are working. Who came up with that idea? Wonder if they’ll have a job tomorrow.
Amazing how many people on Facebook and Twitter are rooting for Obama. Wouldn’t it be great if CNN could call the election based on that?
Turns out I am still registered at my old address in Hollywood. Haven’t lived there in 3 years, but at least I get to vote.
It took me just under an hour to vote. There was quite a line.