Low Sunday night LAX traffic?

Usually, Sunday night traffic for passenger pick-up at LAX is a freakin madhouse zoo. But when I got picked up tonight, it wasn't bad at all.... Very strange.... Then I got home and realized the Grammy's were on, at the Staples center here in LA. There has to be 50,000 people in there or something with all of the most famous people in the world. LA revolves around the entertainment industry. And there are actors/actresses everywhere, like the girl that sat behind me on my flight that has a small role on the show 'House'.

Fabbing up some custom stuff

A few months back, I installed some new speakers in the car. Well, to do the job, I need some spacers to go between the speakers and the door panel. Since designing stuff IS my job, I designed some and made some prototypes. They worked pretty well... to be perfect, they need to be another couple millimeters thicker, but I made them work.

We got snow!

With the five days straight of rain we got, along came with it a bunch of snow!

Eh? What are those chunks falling from the sky?

Yeah... that's hail on my front door floormat. In LA. Weird.

Real Rain in LA!!!

Finally, some REAL rain! This was a good ole Texas of Florida thunderstorm style rain! This was the view outside my office window. Roads aren't so good here for drainage; they haven't really figured that out here. The right side lane was half flooded fairly quickly.


The roof drain

Fatty food = clogs

No, not your arteries. Well, probably those too. But anyways, I had some 80/20 ground beef I was cooking up, and I dumped all the fatty junk down the kitchen sink. I made the mistake of not running some really hot water for a bit after it. Fast foward a few hours later when I'm doing dishes, and the sink is backing up! Opps... good thing for Liquid Plumber! That stuff worked like champ, FYI.

Rainy season

So this is pretty much the only time of year we get rain here in LA. Hopefully it brings some snow too! The snow that was on Mt. Baldy has mostly melted.

Cardio machine lies!

When I do my warmup, I generally either hop on the treadmill for a half mile, or do this 7 minute warmup on the stationary bike. Treadmill says I do 57 calories, and I'm generally 50-53 calories on the bike. The bike is probably the most accurate measurement as it's pretty easy to measure power output. Treadmill... not sure how it comes up with the calorie number.

Anyway, yesterday, all the treadmills and bikes were taken (made the mistake of going at 530pm). There was one elliptical machine thing left. It only had the legs though, no arm swinging. That thing also said I did just over 50 calories in 4 minutes, which is how fast I do my half mile warmup on the threadmill.

There's no way in HELL that I burned the same amount of calories in the same time on that elliptical thing as I did on the treadmill! I wasn't breathing nearly as hard compared to coming off the treadmill, and my legs didn't feel as tired compared to the bike. Lies I tell you!

Asian Karaoke

I'm apparently too white as I don't know what a proper asian karaoke bar is like. I'm use to the typical big open room with everyone in it. Well, I went to a Korean one last night and everyone has these small, separate rooms that you can fit 6-10 people in. It's pretty cool as you only embarass yourself in front of your friends instead of a big crowd of strangers.

Hmmm.... (ATM) upgrades

So there are some new ATM machines installed at my bank. The weird thing is, you put in your card and pull it out instead of the machining sucking in your car until the end of the transaction.

And now instead of five language options, there are nine!

Don't do stupid s***

This is what happens when you ride stupid on the street. This is a popular turn a little bit west of The Rock Store on Mulholland Drive in Malibu.