Lunch Break

Lunch in Santa Barbara at a little sidewalk restaurant (Aldo’s) I haven’t tried before. Looking forward to my scallops in lemon sauce with vegetables.

Ancient Device Found on SilverDragon’s Desk

Yes, folks, it’s a Palm Lifedrive with Universal IR Keyboard, and it’s still in use . The combo is lighter than a laptop and allows for touch typing; it’s taken me through filmmaking classes and four attempts at Nanowrimo. My desktop Mac broke down a few weeks ago, and I promptly came down with an attack of fantasies of a new desktop or laptop Mac, maybe with an iPhone or the new Palm Pre (Palm loyalty dies hard), but an examination of the (lack of) SilverFinances convinced me that making do with what I’ve got would be a better plan…

So I bought the old Mac a new(er) power supply, and I’ve been updating all the software for the little devil below.  Adding bluetooth capability and SD cards is cheap these days, so it’s doing better than ever before at being a substitute laptop/iPod — the poor thing just isn’t the latest kewl hardware tho…

DataChugger LD

Rain.

All over Greater Los Angeles. In June. I love it, but can The End of the World As We Know It (TEOTWAWKI) be far behind?

“Bull Durham” lives!

Tremor, one of the chupacabra mascots of the Rancho Cucamonga Quakes.

 The Hubby took me to a minor league baseball game Friday night, Lancaster Jethawks at Rancho Cucamonga Quakes. It was like walking into the movie- the clowning mascots (supposedly chupacabras), the wild pitcher, the grim veterans. I almost expected Kevin Costner to come out and catch…