Last weekend, my younger sister needed to go to a presidential library for a class. She could have gone to the Nixon Library, since its in Orange County, but she opted to go to the Reagan Library, so she and my older sister could hang with the boys, too. We tagged along with the school trip and were pleasantly surprised that we had a good time. We were not pleased, however, that we stumbled on the cool part of the Disney exhibit (which included a life size Iron Man!) five minutes to closing. Why would you had that in the basement?!
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Another birthday week, come and gone
Every year, when my birthday rolls around, I feel its a good time for Trinity and I to take time off work. Pre-kids, it might mean a vacation — like the week we went up the coast to check out Hearst Castle and the Monterey Aquarium — but now that we have kids, it means staying home while the boys are at daycare.
My birthday happened to fall on Memorial Day this year, so we of course stayed home and fired up the barbecue. Later in the day, after the boys had napped and we had our big lunch, we went to Barnes and Noble and bought Mike some new Dr. Seuss books.
Radford Art Walk in Studio City
I’ve been meaning to do a blog post on the sculptures alongside the CBS Radford property. They were apparently installed last summer, and I only started noticing them when I got back to work in January, because I wanted to avoid the traffic nightmare close to Laurel Canyon and Ventura Boulevard. Over the past few weeks, I saw that they began work installing sidewalks and landscaping. They’re just about done now, but the no parking signs are still up.
The year began with a blowout
I haven’t blogged in 20 days. Sorry! But, for good reason. I’ll get to that in a minute.
But, yes, literally, the year began with a blowout. We were on the way to church, when the front passenger-side tire (the one right under me; Trinity was driving) of my car blew out on New Year’s Day, Mikey’s 2nd birthday. It was a bit terrifying at the time — I did freeze up a bit, but we were able to get a AAA tow out there to get a donut on, and we continued on to church. Trinity took the car to Wal-Mart, where he got me four new tires (we knew they needed replacing and had been stalling until we had more money…).
Oh, but that wasn’t it. It was Mikey’s birthday of course, so we had plans to take him to Chuck E. Cheese. He was so excited to play, we could barely get him to eat anything. After not having any nap and a full day of hard playing, he looked like this:
A night at the Americana at Brand
Six or so years ago, my Glendale News-Press coworkers and I were so sick of hearing about the proposed Americana at Brand. We’d done seemingly millions of stories abut the project — traffic impact, projected revenues for the city, and most importantly, the conflict with the company that owns the neighboring Glendale Galleria. The project was so controversial in Glendale, they had a special election about it.