There are lazy Saturdays, and then there are start-at-4:30am Saturdays. Today definitely falls into the latter category. Let's see, there was: driving through a wintry, pre-dawn storm to get to LA, then an informal networking breakfast with the Producer's Guild Award nominees (you know, just Steven Spielberg, Brad Pitt, and a few others), a lecture on cartographic transformations at the Semi-annual California Map Society Conference, a rainy walking tour of downtown LA with the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra, and then we accidently stumbled into a car commercial shoot, had a coyote encounter, ogled a Bugatti Veyron we found parked in the street in Hollywood, walked a ridgetop with panoramic views of LA just as storm clouds left the scene, ate Diddy Reese ice-cream and chocolate-chip cookie sandwiches on the UCLA campus, and then got to spend a quiet evening at home contemplating the breadth of what we just witnessed. Truly, we live a strange and blessed life. How does one even begin to take a day like this in stride? I think I'm still in awe of what we just did.
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A stormy day in LA.
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| Sara had breakfast with this "Spielberg guy". |
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| Walt Disney Concert Hall |
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| Walt Disney Concert Hall |
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| Can I come in? |
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| A lecture on Non-Ptolemaic map projections |
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| Mr. Coyote, of Griffith Park. Noble beast. |
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