It's late afternoon Friday. I'm back at LAX, a bit over 24 hours after I arrived yesterday. I'm on the home stretch of a quick trip down here to visit a client ( Read more... )

I'm in Los Angeles for about 24 hours on a quick business trip. I'm here to meet a customer over dinner tonight and then join him for a working meeting tomorrow at his office.

Travel down to LA from Silicon Valley early afternoon today was pretty easy. My 1:55pm flight out of SJC left on time- wow, what a rarity! And it was full, too ( Read more... )

LAX Airport. Thu, 12 Oct 2023, 4:30pm.

My little 24-hour trip to Orange County expanded to Los Angeles. After meeting one customer in Irvine this morning, a good meeting even if frustratingly short, we headed north to visit another customer in west LA for a brief afternoon meet. The change came at a cost, though. I had to rebook my departure out ( Read more... )

Hurricane Hilary, downgraded first to Tropical Storm Hilary and now just Post-Tropical Cyclone Hilary (that really rolls off the tongue, doesn't it?), has traveled across Southern California and into Nevada. Tropical storms hitting California are rare. The last was Nora in 1997 ( Read more... )

Scientists have agreed that the baby boy is on the way. ...No, this isn't a gender reveal thing, it's weather. This past Thursday the NOAA declared that the conditions for the phenomenon known as El Niño (Spanish for baby boy) are in place. A warmer patch of water has been observed in the eastern Pacific ocean off the southwestern coast of the US ( Read more... )

This morning we got some snow in the Bay Area. That alone is not so unusual. What is unusual is where it fell ( Read more... )

A gunman shot multiple people at a Chinese New Year celebration Saturday night in Monterey Park, California, a city just east of Los Angeles. 10 people died, 10 more were injured. Update, Monday afternoon: The death toll is now 11, as one of the injured died at a hospital Monday ( Read more... )

Well, the trade show's a wrap. Today, like the past few days, we folded things up a bit early. WIth a stated end time of 2pm we started packing at 1pm. By then maybe 1/3 of the companies exhibiting were already gone. We rolled out a bit before 2.

I'm at the airport now, cooling my heels. No, I didn't walk to the airport; I already did that 1.1 ( Read more... )

Hilton LAX - Thu, 28 Jul 2022. 9pm.

I'm in town, in Los Angeles, for a weekend trade show. After I walked from the airport to the hotel it was straight to work. Here's an outline of my schedule over the next few days:

• This afternoon was booth setup. Responsibility for that fell primarily on my marketing events colleagues. I helped them a bit to ( Read more... )

Hilton LAX - Thu, 28 Jul 2022. 4pm.

When I arrived in LA this afternoon I did something really weird for LA. I walked. I walked from the airport to my hotel. No, it's not close. It was just over a mile, 1.1 miles to be exact. Okay, maybe in some parts of the world that's a reasonable city walk, but not in LA. When we lived in LA years ago my wife ( Read more... )