The OC

During our weekend trip to The OC (er, Orange County, California), we discovered that driving from Laguna Beach to Los Angeles wasn’t that difficult, thanks to some simple directions provided by Chel’s good friend, former roommate and current Angelino, Kristin:
“You basically just take the 405 N, to the 605 N, to the 5 N, to the 101 N…”
I was a little nervous about driving in LA traffic, given horror stories I had heard and the very epic nature of the roads themselves. After all, where else in the world do people put “the” in front of highway numbers? That little …

Posted at 8am on 06/29/08 | 1 comment | Filed Under: City life, Travel/Vacation read on

Free to good home

My grab box of surprises from the old officeMoving to a new office, as I’m doing this week, is a good opportunity to clean out the old stuff and start fresh. In the past few days I’ve discovered that I didn’t need about 90% of the old scribbled meeting notes and other junk collected over the past three years and filed haphazardly away at my desk. And there’s a few other things that I’m getting rid of that have created some conversation at work.

“Ineptitude”
My “de-motivational” poster …

Posted at 8pm on 05/18/08 | 2 comments | Filed Under: Work read on