This snoozing hippo was not the only one totally disinterested in the sporting event of the year.
After the rush to the stores to stock up on chips, dips, beer, wings, pizza and related foodstuff essential for a Superbowl Sunday the streets emptied out and the town was all ours.
Unamerican? No, nice!
Yes, yes, the rains have arrived – finally! That’s the good news.
The bad news is that the rains came on the wings of some quite remarkable storms; we’re just through the second wave of winds with gusts of over 72 miles per hour and two more storm waves are expected until Friday of this week.
Down [...]
They used trains and built train stations. One of them is the Santa Fe Depot in San Bernardino.
This building, which replaced an earlier structure, was officially opened in 1918.
At that time this was the largest and finest train station west of the Mississippi. As the former station building had burned down, the new structure was [...]
That’s the beauty of Southern California: every kind of outdoor activity is just a short drive away.
This photo was taken in Griffith Park, where we hiked with plenty of water and in short sleeves. With it being officially Winter, no shorts (but that is just us – other hikers just went by temperatures and not [...]
The last day of the year – the last day of the decade even…
So much happened. In 2000 I had no idea that 10 years later I would celebrate this day today in Southern California, under a blue sky, enjoying the sun, feeling calmly confident that all will be well.
Here’s to the next 10 years! [...]
Two weeks ago there was a complete and utter failure at 1&1 Web Hosting. We don’t know what happened, and we don’t know how many sites were destroyed. We can’t even get anyone at 1&1 to admit that “mistakes were made.” Here’s how I imagine that they fixed the problem:
At any rate…we are back (no [...]
20 years ago today, Günter Schabowski, then a member of the SED Politbüro of the German Democratic Republic, gave his now famous press conference about the lifted visiting rules for travels from East to West Germany. When asked by a journalist when the new rules would apply, he said: “Immediately.” This was not quite correct, [...]
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