Day: April 1, 2007

Driving through L.A. is always an excercise in frustration. The traffic does not follow rules of normal traffic, it bunches up and lets up and bunches up and lets up ad infinitum, which is probably more frustrating than just traffic all the way because every 10 minutes you get your hopes up that it’s over. I’m guessing it has something to do with the extremely aggressive tailgating “can’t let anyone in front of me so I zoom up to the car in front of me as fast as possible” behavior that most SoCal drivers have.

So besides downtown to the Orange County county line taking twice as long as I expected, the drive was mostly uneventful. There were just enough people on the road who understand how to drive a two-lane highway and only a handful who didn’t, but most of them were going faster than me so they just zoomed past in the passing lane while I was in the right lane.

My mom, stepdad and I went to an Islamic Chinese restaurant, which had a customer base of the ethnic type you’d expect. My parents aren’t used to being an ethnic minority in a place they go to. I’m used to it by now.

This is also your friendly reminder to go see Meet the Robinsons if you haven’t already. I haven’t seen it yet, I’m going now. But you see, this guy, who has the “Adapted by” credit happens to be my cousin. I mean first cousin, share grandparents type of cousin for all you out there who water down the meaning of the word “cousin.” This means he didn’t write much of the screenplay that made it into the final film, but he was responsible for the overreaching story. (The original book the movie is based on has no semblance of story, it’s just a picture book that introduces you to the guy’s wacky family.)

So somethings odd with the wireless here, so I’m having to do this on my mom’s computer, hopefully I can figure it out…