The other day, I went on a one person (me), mini-retreat from work.  I went took a long lunch and drove down the 605 to lovely little Seal Beach for lunch.

One of the many uses for a retired dinghy. 

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Today, while in the cafeteria at school, I saw ( Read more... )

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Since my new camera has not yet arrived, how about this lovely owl instead?

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Maple syrup and cameras do not mix.

This has been a public service announcement. 

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I went down to Oceanside a couple of weeks ago to visit a friend, and, as I was ridiculously early, I zipped over to the mission there to take some pictures.  Of course, my memory for where things are is never great, so it was not as much as a "zip" as I had first thought, and once there, I had only 20 minutes or so to poke around before I had to ( Read more... )

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Not that anyone cares, but me, since it really seems that LJ's halycon days are behind it, and harldy any of my original flist actually posts here with any regularity anymore ( Read more... )

After slaving away for quite a long time at work and pulling all kinds of crazy hours, I am now using up some vacation.

Where to go?  Paris?  Rome?  London?  Down the road to San Diego?

No!  I am having a staycation right here at home.  Not because I don't want to do anything else, but because I'm too exhausted and lack the strength of spirit to ( Read more... )