Another selfie

Heading in for my first day at the new job.

The safety briefing includes warnings about deer, coyotes, bears, mountain lions, hikers, bicyclists, and dogs. The gist of the briefing is that we should keep a careful distance from all of them.  ;-)

Lunch at the cafeteria on the second day.

The hiking and bicycling is excellent.  Plan your visit.  And give me a call if you are in the building.

There is so much to learn at work and the new hire administrivia is considerable.  I am not quite done unpacking, but I've definitely lost momentum.

No pictures

because I was driving solo.  You can follow my route.  Click to embiggen and see how many national parks I skirted while driving Interstate freeways 405 to 105 to 605 to 210 to 15 to 70.

There are people going around waving yellow "Don't tread on me flags" badmouthing the federal government.  They don't want to pay federal taxes or obey federal laws because they don't recognize the federal government or they dismiss it as not doing anything worthwhile.

I left Los Angeles at 12:00 PDT yesterday and arrived in Denver at 19:00 MDT today.  My 1000 mile route crossed sections of California, Nevada, Utah and Colorado.  Try doing that with only state and local roads.  The federal interstate highway system is an engineering marvel and an economic boon.

I found a YouTube video of just one of the stunning sections I travelled these past two days.


Although the desert southwest and the rocky mountain range are both stunningly beautiful, they pose uniquely different--but extreme--climatic and geologic challenges for road builders.  I am just in awe of the natural scenery, and the human imagination, skill and willpower that it took to raise the money and build these highways.

Scratch and Pack

The MIT Club of Southern California is hosting Scratch Day with three family-friendly events in Los Alamitos, Irvine and Mission Viejo.

The Irvine location is SOLD OUT. Walk-in registrations at the Los Alamitos and Mission Viejo locations will be accepted on a space-available basis only.

While Bad Dad and Iris are bonding over Scratch tomorrow, I will be home packing up my sewing room and clothes.  I need help because I am still not fully mobile.

The kitchen, office and linens are mostly packed.  The bathroom stuff won't take much time.  I could really use a hand (and legs!) to help with my sewing and craft stuff tomorrow.

Do any LA-area sewists want to come help?  I suffer from SABLE, stash accumulation beyond life expectancy.  You can take home lots of free sewing supplies.  ;-)

Email and/or leave a comment if you can join me in my Redondo Beach home to sift through my sewing stuff.