4 posts tagged “la”
Went to the Kibbitz Room in Fairfax the other night to hang out with the Kanuck before he heads back to Jasper. Since it's part of Canter's Deli, I just had to pick up some bagels. And a loaf of bread. Oh, and, hey, throw in some of those yummy looking Hamentaschen while you're at it....
Finally, real bread in the New World.
Got through Day 2 of cataloging and all is well. The good thing is, I now don't have to go out to Fullerton again until December, when I will do two all-day sessions for the other class I'm taking on Reference services. All the rest is online. Unfortunately, the live online lectures for cataloging will be during my shift, so I probably will only be able to view the recordings rather than participate. But, on the whole, I feel comfortable that I will be able to handle cataloging now. Also, we ended about 2 hrs early today, so I actually made it back in time to have dinner with the fam, and then we took a nice walk around the neighborhood admiring all the houses we can't afford.
Successfully upgraded the "new" desktop from a paltry 128 MB RAM to 512 MB. Now it's humming. Thanks to Radio Junkie, who had extra RAM chips floating about since 2002.
B.H. has two job interviews. One on Friday is for a gig in LB, which would be nice just b/c it's close by. But, the pay is apparently pretty bad. The other is not firm yet. It's for Jewish Social Services in Fairfax, and they only want someone for 4 hrs. a day. That's a long commute for so few hours. But it would be working with people who speak her native language. Still, it's encouraging to get some interviews.
Union Station, btw, is pretty cool inside. Beautiful Art Deco (Jugendstil) interior. At the other end of the terminal is a nice aquarium with what looked like tiger sharks in it. Up at the street level where the bus terminal is, I killed some time reading about the history of the place. Apparently it was built on the site where an old giant Sycamore tree used to be that was particularly important to the indigenous tribe. Talked a lot about how the Indians got screwed by the European settlers, to the point that they were essentially all wiped out.
Took a train in LA for the first time this morning. The trains are nice and easy, but there aren't many of them and the stations are not convenient for us. I got up early, drove with Better Half to downtown (which got her there faster thanx to carpool lane), then biked from her office to Union Station. Caught a Metrolink train to Fullerton (takes 37 min.) and biked 3 miles to campus. So now I'm in an all day class on cataloging, which continues tomorrow. The rest of semester will be work conducted online. The way back should be an adventure. Gonna take the Metrolink to Norwalk, shuttle bus to the Green Line train, and transfer at Harbor Freeway to a bus home. We'll see how long that takes. But, after hearing how other classmates struggled with traffic and parking (one woman claimed she spent an hour finding a spot), I don't mind the adventure.
Wanted to write stuff about Big Sis and Little Sis's visits, but now is not the time. Maybe this evening or tomorrow.
It never ceases to amaze me and bum me out when traveling around LA to see just how many cars are on the road ALL THE TIME! It is a continual reminder that we are going to hell in a handbasket. I have another visual reminder of it right now as I look out over the harbor, barely able to see downtown Long Beach (never mind the mountains!) through the smog.
