It’s been a relaxing four-day weekend for us, and we’re ready to greet December head on…with its high of 78? tomorrow. Hmm. Anyway, we spent Friday through Sunday in San Diego, after a nice Thanksgiving day at friends of Aimee’s from work. After an easy sub-two hour drive down, we stopped at Balboa Park and […]

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We started our four-day weekend (five-day for Aimee, actually) with a Walking L.A. walk, which we hadn’t done in a long time. This one was not far from us, in Wilshire Center and Koreatown, starting at the Wiltern. I’d never really noticed how green it is.I bought this shirt awhile ago, commemorating the 30th anniversary […]

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I returned from a great week in Savannah last night, with interesting conference sessions, some good screenings, great food, and good times with colleagues and friends from around the world. Some photos here, more later.

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I’m doing the last of my exploring around Savannah before the conference begins this afternoon, and spent some time at the Telfair Museum and the new-ish Jepson Center across the street. Nice exhibitions, especially the blown glass, but the building itself was the real attraction. Sort of like the Getty meets the British Museum’s glass-ceilinged […]

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Before heading to the airport, where I’m now awaiting my flight to Savannah for the AMIA Conference, Aimee and I had a tasty dinner at BLD on Beverly. Or, as the sign on the street where we parked would have us believe, “Beverley.” How does that mistake get made in the first place, I wonder, […]

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Looking back four years to election night 2004, I noted that the only bright spot in the political world was the election of Senator Obama. Could we have believed then what four years would bring? Just incredible. Aimee and I spent the night with some folks from the Obamawood crew at the Hyatt, ten floors […]

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Or “Melt Tuna,” as we are in the picture. We did it two years ago, took a year off for injuries last year, and came back stronger than ever this time around. The whole thing felt better, since we were aware of how hilly the course was this time, and we were better matched, with […]

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