As readers may recall I finally made good this summer on a long-delayed plan to build our Russian tortoise Buster a 25-square-foot outdoor pen to liberate her from her unsatisfactory indoor confinement in a 3-square-foot aquarium. Buster’s pretty much been loving the expanded living space ever since… well, at least as much as a grumpy …
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As seen from my window on the 10th floor of the office building I’m in at the Howard Hughes Center yesterday morning (around 9:30) looking in the general direction of LAX. Looks like someone left the defrost on outside. I punched through the wall of soup while on the creek path approaching Sepulveda Boulevard. MOIST.
So we’re back and happy to be home with the animals, and the photo totals are in (after iPhoto crashed twice at various points during the import process, gah!). Over the nine days we were away in Mexico I took some 2,444 pictures (along with some 17 video clips). Susan logged 1,978 images. Jeez. I …
10:11 p.m. 2-1 in favor of the Cards. Bottom of the ninth. One out. Bases empty. Three balls and two strikes to Matt Kemp. Then the sky opened up and two minutes after this shot was snapped umpires said no more and out came the tarps. Not only have I never been to a Dodger …
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A bit of blue sky broke through early yesterday afternoon. Then it went away for the rest of the day (click to quadrify):
Looking out the office window yesterday afternoon I was a bit double-taken aback to find what looked like a funnel cloud forming somewhere not at all far enough away to the south (click to quadruplify): Can’t say whether it was or just an illusion of perspective (more likely), but the good news either way was …