Sunday, Sunday, Sunday
Jul. 24th, 2005 09:03 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kyburgGot home late last night after driving,driving,driving. Somebody or something had an accident at the 110/91 juncture and they CLOSED THE FREEWAY at that point, going west. So, you have to fight six lanes of traffic that reallyreallyreally want to get off the freeway at the nearest exit, which has one lane. Managed it without getting killed. Some people don't like my "Drive Hawaiian Style" stumperbicker - last night, it almost seemed like it smacked some people upside the head and went "OH YEAH, THAT'S RIGHT" and they began behaving. It's subtitled "Slow Down. Be Nice." And it has a nice lil' brown person on it.
Only cracker in the box, and I know it.
82 when I left home yesterday, it was 103 when I got into town - went up to the Ramona Bowl and snapped some shots for my![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
open_yours project, looked around for something I could take with me, but only the gardener was there.
So I went down the street to Ramona Bowl Park and picked up some rocks. I used to scramble all over those boulders when I was younger. Rode my bike there. The one with the banana seat and sissy bar. I passed the little church that had a water spigot out front where we used to get drinks of water back then. Still there. Looks like it's a bible study "clubhouse" for teen groups now. Spic-n-span with a new coat of paint, and bars on the windows. Weird.
Got to Mom's house, and the skies opened. Literally. Had one of the good ol' gullywashers I remembered from many, many summers - rides in, crashes, booms, knocks out the power, dumps inches of rain and then leaves. In about 20 minutes. NBC had enough time to get a minicam crew out, but by then, it's done. They said a tornado touched down somewhere the 74/79 intersection. Whee! When I went back out, the humidity was higher, and just as hot as when it started. Ew. Steam coming off the sidewalks and such. FUNKY.
Went to the Mall. Surprised to see so many other ethnic groups - when I grew up there, it was as WASP as it could come, and if you were Catholic or Jewish, you were strange and exciting. Honest. There are a larger number of Indian & Pakistani medical professionals out there now, they all have their own HUGE medical business offices. Looks like they called friends. It's good.
But unexpected. Sushi in at least three places. This makes as much sense as having Sushi in St. Louis (ask Jim about that) - but that's new, too.
Still can't eat out in that town - even the Arby's sucked. Scary.
Today is housework before it gets too hot to move. So - off I go!
Only cracker in the box, and I know it.
82 when I left home yesterday, it was 103 when I got into town - went up to the Ramona Bowl and snapped some shots for my
open_yours project, looked around for something I could take with me, but only the gardener was there.So I went down the street to Ramona Bowl Park and picked up some rocks. I used to scramble all over those boulders when I was younger. Rode my bike there. The one with the banana seat and sissy bar. I passed the little church that had a water spigot out front where we used to get drinks of water back then. Still there. Looks like it's a bible study "clubhouse" for teen groups now. Spic-n-span with a new coat of paint, and bars on the windows. Weird.
Got to Mom's house, and the skies opened. Literally. Had one of the good ol' gullywashers I remembered from many, many summers - rides in, crashes, booms, knocks out the power, dumps inches of rain and then leaves. In about 20 minutes. NBC had enough time to get a minicam crew out, but by then, it's done. They said a tornado touched down somewhere the 74/79 intersection. Whee! When I went back out, the humidity was higher, and just as hot as when it started. Ew. Steam coming off the sidewalks and such. FUNKY.
Went to the Mall. Surprised to see so many other ethnic groups - when I grew up there, it was as WASP as it could come, and if you were Catholic or Jewish, you were strange and exciting. Honest. There are a larger number of Indian & Pakistani medical professionals out there now, they all have their own HUGE medical business offices. Looks like they called friends. It's good.
But unexpected. Sushi in at least three places. This makes as much sense as having Sushi in St. Louis (ask Jim about that) - but that's new, too.
Still can't eat out in that town - even the Arby's sucked. Scary.
Today is housework before it gets too hot to move. So - off I go!
