I’ve been in the SoCal area for the past week – and what I’ve learnt is that for people like me location hardly matters. Whether I’m in Pittsburgh or in LA or any other place — what I do pretty much remains the same — and a big part of it is still being on the Net a lot more than I should! 🙂
So here are a few small blogs while I’m on the road… still not a 100% into writing the more significant thoughts and stuff. The ambivalence is back. Will resume once it is suppressed again… hopefully.
Things people do to earn a living… — “…the one good thing about the gullibility and the stupidity of the people is that it makes for a fairly easy profession that almost anyone can take up as long as they can spin a incredulous tale!”
GPS is a good thing! — “in *every* case – all I did was punch in my destination without thinking… the Magellan GPS system did the rest. Finding restaurants, hotels and pretty much any services… all a breeze. GPS truly rocks. A huge thumbs up!”
Since I was in the LA area and had never really been to a beach, I decided to drive over to Venice Beach. The beach was prety much what I expected – sand, water, people, birds and all kinds of stuff washed up on the shore. What I did not expect however was the crazy things people were hawking along the sidewalk close to the beach – every other tent/stall was a Psychic, Tarot card reader, spiritual healer, chinese masage therapy from Dr. John all dressed up in a lab coat, tattoos and piercings, sunglasses and the list goes on and on. But the number of people claiming to be psychic far exceeded any others. I guess the one good thing about the gullibility and the stupidity of the people is that it makes for a fairly easy profession that almost anyone can take up as long as they can spin a incredulous tale!
For the past week, I have been in Southern California, mostly in Anaheim and then in Beverly Hills. When I arrived at LAX on Monday, Hertz didn’t have any cars available even though we’d made reservations (anyone remember the Seinfeld episode about this! 🙂 ) Anyhow, but when we finally got a car, it came aith an unexpected extra. As I opened the trunk to put in my bags I immediately noticed a unit mounted in the trunk which said “Magellan” – GPS! Made it waiting for the car all worth it.
So for the past week, I’ve driven over 250 miles up and down SoCal from LA to Anaheim, to Hollywood, to Santa Monica, to Beverly Hills, Bel Air and to Venice Beach. And in *every* case – all I did was punch in my destination without thinking… the Magellan GPS system did the rest. Finding restaurants, hotels and pretty much any services… all a breeze. GPS truly rocks. A huge thumbs up!
:Umm… Can’t disclose who said that since otherwise he will be in trouble! (And I’m sure he thought I would forget by the time I got back to a computer esp after the number of drinks we’d had!) The intelligent will be able to discern the context on their own 🙂
