Comfort

Arrived at LAX around 3:40p.

Got to Pasadena at about 6:15p.

Gotta love LA traffic. No, not really, you don’t gotta love it. Loathing it is, in fact, a perfectly acceptable option.

California is the opposite of Colorado. Right now, Denver is grey and brown, sere with the winter. Southern California is, on the other hand, green-green-green during the winter (even without the torrential rains they’ve had), but sere brown the rest of the year.

I like Colorado.

Driving a Kia. Wow. Basic white sedan. No electronic locks, but a CD player and an NeverLost. I can live with it.

Had a nice dinner with my folks at the Macaroni Grill in Monrovia.

I’m staying at the fabulous Comfort Inn in Pasadena. Our standard four hotels in Colorado are all booked up. Not sure what’s going on here, but the CI is booked up, too. Yow.

It’s an “outside exit” hotel, and reminds me uncomfortably of the Walnut Hills Holiday Inn where I spent too many months during my Martinez sojourn — including having a fridge and microwave. And I suspect (strongly) that the “no smoking” sign on the room has not been strictly adhered to. On the other hand, it’s clean besides that, and it has wireless broadband for free. I can live with that. Not so sure about the very sheer window curtains — but since I’m at the far end of the hotel, I don’t expect a lot of traffic coming by.