hours later:

Hi Nilly!

and I really hope Hil is asleep.

Also hours later, but not too long after beth...

Hi, beth and Nilly!

it turns out, about three blocks distance north, there is a dog beach!

Brenda, is that the one at Belmont Harbor? I was just reading in the Tribune a week or so ago that they've been having problems with some unknown jerk padlocking the gate to that park/beach access, so that dog owners have had to pick their dogs up and carry them over the fence. (It takes the Parks people a few hours to get over and cut the padlock off, which they've done several times already.)

Hi Kathy!

I think I would like someone to hit me over the head with a baseball bat. I t would stop the hamster in my head from running around and around and around...

My mom and her hub are coming up to spend the day in about five hours, so I spent the evening staying awake (finally ate my first meal of the day at around 12:30 am) and cleaning my bedroom (most of the way--just have to make the bed and sweep the floor now). I've spent the last two hours burning some CDs I promised a friend of mine I'd do while on vacation (which ends today, unfortunately). Now, I just have to get my laundry done, take out the garbage, do the dishes and one last sweep of the floors, then take a shower and go grocery shopping, all before noon. Yay.

you are being productive I am looking out windows and wondering if I shoold turn on the tv

I had forgotten how annoying LA's lack of left turn lanes is.

Does that mean there are no lanes for a left turn, you just have to take it from the lanes that are also for continuing straight ahead?

Yes. In addition, even if there are left hand turn lanes, where people waiting to make left turns wait, many of the intersections in LA don't have the special left turn lights you mentioned. Most intersections up here have both, and I have gotten spoiled.

Brenda, is that the one at Belmont Harbor? I was just reading in the Tribune a week or so ago that they've been having problems with some unknown jerk padlocking the gate to that park/beach access, so that dog owners have had to pick their dogs up and carry them over the fence.

That's the one, and if that's the case, it's fucking annoying. Not least because the gate is already on top of a high wall so it's not easy matter getting in and out even with the gate open. Why are people such jerks?

Morning.

I love left turn arrows. The lack of them makes me nervous.

I think we're going to go see "March of the Penguins" today. Looking at all that ice will be nice in this weather.

As long as everyone agrees that drivers in the left turn lane will pull forward into the intersection to wait for an opening in traffic (meaning at least two cars get to turn left every light), I'm okay with the lack of a specific signal.

I've noticed that the LT signal on my commute to work is car-sensitive. I'd never really thought about that before, but it must be that way a lot, huh?

Today's pancakes get organic light. It's really very nice maple syrup.

Car-sensitive? I'm stumped.