24 hours in LA

[l_stboy]

I took off from San Jose around 11am on Thursday, courtesy of an old radar systems company in Van Nuys that had an interesting project they wanted to talk to me about. I landed at Bob Hope International Airport in Burbank 50 minutes later and, blinking in the intense, Brady Bunch sunshine and looking out at quaint Brady Bunch houses, drove south

Comments

[tyratae]

you did just tell us how you've been:

meandery, quest-y, slightly bruised, vaguely inebriated, better educated about the finer things, spending money and being to be subjected to drama, in good company, stuck in traffic, wondering where the hell the time went that it took to sink that far into that much tar, inventing biographies for mystery women, and wolfy. what else is there? :)

[l_stboy]

you're very good at picking up that sort of thing!

[thebroomecloset]

Yes, I am becoming a cocktail snob

Becoming? *grin*

Sounds like a fantastic 24 hours. Glad you and Steve had such a good time and that the interview went well and stroked your ego in just the way you needed. That's always a plus.

[l_stboy]

Yeah, lots of things are up in the air this month, it's good to have friends and small adventures to help with balance.

[kilroi]

I grew up in LA. La Brea Tar Pits was a common trip.

I guess I'm more surprised that *other* people know about it.

[l_stboy]

Yeah! But I have yet to meet someone who hasn't heard of the Tar Pits, so we all picked it up somewhere. Maybe the Flintstones?

Tar pits

[kilroi]

Strangely enough, I was there on Saturday, and it was great in a geeky sort of way. I loved to learn how the Giant Sloth defends himself from a pack of cats or wolves. He balls up, and then tries to roll over them. They know this b/c they've found multiple squashed cat or wolf skeletons below a sloth skeleton.

... and LA fries your brain. I'm pretty sure about that.

-PhilTG

Snobbery

[deity_inc]

When it comes to food and drink there is nothing wrong with a good amount of snobbery.