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Wednesday, June 30, 2004

SignOnSanDiego.com > News > Metro -- Worst drought in 500 years? 

SignOnSanDiego.com > News > Metro -- Worst drought in 500 years?

My friends back in Rochester have been wading through puddles and soggy basements. Meanwhile, here we've had less than 6" of rain in the past year.


Sunday, June 27, 2004

Topics of conversation in San Diego and MayoTown are rather different....

At social functions in Rochester, MN, conversations would often turn to things medical, and the oddest and/or most tragic conditions were discussed in graphic anatomical detail over cocktails or coffee hour.

This morning at church coffee hour I learned about the Navy's AEGIS missile systems and which defense contractor was merging with which other contractor.

On a more weighty note, almost 20% of US military deaths in Iraq have been from Camp Pendleton-based Marines. Camp Pendleton is about 30 miles north of here. Anti-war sentiment in Oceanside, the town alongside which Pendleton is located, is growing.



Tuesday, June 15, 2004

Shake, rattle & roll 

SignOnSanDiego.com > News > Metro -- 5.2-magnitude quake strikes off the coast

Well, I've now experienced my first earthquake. It felt like the earth sneezed or had some sort of spasm. I was at work, sitting in my cube. Nothing fell or broke, there or at home. Definitely a weird sensation, though!

Today's was the biggest shake SD has gotten in 20 years. If this is as bad as it gets, I guess I don't have to worrry too much, at least not compared to my friends up in LA and San Francisco.

Saturday, June 12, 2004

CHiP 

I saw my first California Highway Patrol motorcycle officer up close the other day. Gave me flashbacks to watching Erik Estrada & co. on tv as a kid! Seriously, he was very impressive in his tight-fitting blouse and even tighter-fitting pants and boots. ;-) There had been some sort of accident on The 5 a bit ahead of where I was, just beyond the 5/805 Merge, and his task was to do a traffic break for a few minutes to give his colleagues in a patrol car a chance to push the cars out of the way. So he turned on his lights and started weaving across 2 lanes, and then 3 lanes, and then finally doing sweeping S's across all 6 lanes, his bike leaning deeply into the turns, and all the cars slowed and stayed behind him. *I* would not want to put my body in front of 6 lanes of speeding freeway traffic while on a motorcycle. Those CHP folks earn their pay, IMO.

Something I didn't know until I moved out here...there is no "California State Police." All state police functions are performed by the California Highway Patrol. Some googling revealed that the State Police, which was a very small body, was merged into the CHP about 20 years ago as a budget and streamlining measure.

While on the subject of cars and police and such, I now have my official California driver's license. So I think I'm now an official Californian. :-) Hopefully I will never see a CHP officer up *really* close....

Some of my co-workers 

Jenna, who was my supervisor for my first 8 months at HKLK. She's now left for a position at a large downtown firm.

More of my co-workers.

Some of my co-workers at Hilding Kipnis Lyon & Kelly at a farewell party for my boss Jenna

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