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.