November 23 - Happy Thanksgiving!

Spent Thanksgiving with some frisbee friends and their coworkers... and the neighbor girls who were waiting for their dad to finish working on the roof before they ate...

November 22

So I skipped two days, so sue me. The week started out a little slow... sorry. I'm making up for it by the fact that today's pictures are of the Rolling Stones. A friend-of-a-friend worked for the tour, and gave us seats on the floor at the last minute for their show at Dodger Stadium. Midway through the show, the stage rolled out along a track, and we were about 50 feet away from Mick and Keith in the flesh! Keith Richards is a bit scary...

November 19

Our beach league team were the "Running Grunion"... O captain, our captain had these trophies made.

November 18

A spotted leopard eel (or something like that) in the eel tank at Ocean Avenue Seafood in Santa Monica. Unlike lobsters, if you order eel, this is not the one you get to eat.

November 17

Horse racing at Hollywood Park... I expected it to be a bit more like the Kentucky Derby, and I was worried I'd be underdressed in my flip-flops. Not so much.

November 16

I work with some community college students reeeeeally early in the morning, and this is my student's son with us at Starbucks, getting really bored.

November 15

I was kind of fascinated by the barbed wire outside of Phillipe's restaurant in Chinatown.

This is kind of a weird picture of Goat... we were playing random table games and this was the view I had of him while I was rooting around under the table for the quarter we dropped.

November 14

So there's sort of a nature theme going on here... but I liked the water on this leaf. Of course, it's not from rain (it hasn't rained here since, like, May or something) but they must have watered the lawn this morning.

November 13

The (very symmetrical) hallway of Fuller's prayer garden...

November 12

The beach at Santa Monica, with Malibu in the background.
Sand and sky... from my vantagepoint on the sidelines, still nursing a bad back. But my Sunday routine still includes a healthy dose of beach, so things could certainly be a lot worse.

November 11

A little shaky, but here's a shot of the Bittersweets playing in Hollywood Saturday night.

Hannah and Co. blew into town for a few hours for their first LA gig.

November 10

Ah, the endless entertainment of random bar photography.

November 9

Modern Mecca. A mere block away from my apartment, this grad student's dream is one-stop shopping for various and sundry cheap crap. Also the source of the sketchy pudding.

November 8

Evening commute: taillights on the 16-lane freeway by my apartment

November 7

Pay close attention to the manufacturer of this particular chocolate pudding...

November 6

Monday morning commute...

November 5

We had another Ugly Night Out for Freya's birthday... everyone else looked kind of hip-ugly, but Freya, brave girl that she is, went with the letter of the law... purple pantsuit and all.

November 4

I had to pick two today... they're both from being on a walk with my friend Kim in some of the nicer neighborhoods of Sierra Madre (needless to say, we were a little surprised by the pig).

November 3

Sleepy Goat, who drove out from Santa Monica to surprise me, only to discover I'd gone shopping on the way home from work and that my phone didn't get reception in Trader Joe's.

November 2

Barbie, meet JJ

November 1

My friend at the nursing home where I go to visit a hospice patient. My patient sleeps all the time now, so when I go visit, I spend most of my time with this lady, who doesn't speak a word of English, and doesn't seem to let the fact that I don't speak a word of Chinese stop us from having long, animated conversations until I have to get back to work.

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A picture may be worth 1000 words, but I'll try to keep it short in mentioning that even though I took a picture today, I've got a case study due tomorrow and that means maybe the site will get updated tomorrow or Friday...

Oooh... how about a substitute picture of my goddaughter in her halloween costume here. She's adorable... I like to think she takes after me.