Ran the boat just a few times this year, trailer axles are holding up very well. It is a cold summer, weird for southern CA. The summer car show is a blast this year. I spent the last night of the car show continually cruising acting the kid again. Hey, is it a mid life crisis when you still own you High School car? A big grin whenever I romp on the pedal and listen to the 1.94 intakes suck in the air. No line lock cook the tires or street racing, that was for my younger wilder stupider days.
In the Dark
A couple of days ago we lost power, the big one that affected southern CA, parts of Arizona and Mexico. All of us were home already except for my daughter who was in college. It took her over three hours to get home from another part of the city. No traffic lights, plenty of heated drivers and a worried dad. The cell phone were working either. All electronics including computers, game consoles, TVs and oh god the Internet were down. The only thing working was a portable AM radio to keep up to date on the news.
A nice change sitting outside and enjoying company with the neighbors. Forced ourselves to consume mass quantities of ice cream for dinner. No distractions of technology with everyone in their own little world but actually talking to real people face to face. After sunset, another surprise. No city lights meant a nice clear dark sky full of stars! Broke out the telescope and got a great view of the moon, saw the craters in HDTV quality. The moon was so bright that I would see spots after looking thru the telescope.
Back to Normal?
The power finally was restored at three in the morning, only had to dump out one half jug of bad smelling milk. So here I am with all the technology distractions pounding away on these keys. Ah well, happy to be back to I guess normal.
