Nice pictures, GC! What is the occasion?

Annual balloon regatta.
Should be a video of some of last year's here: http://visitpagearizona.com/balloon-regatta-2011.html

Very cool.

Great Photos..... Kids must have loved it.....

Met a QP yesterday.
 

During an afternoon in the Little Tokyo district of downtown Los Angeles, ZonieDiver and I managed to figure out solutions to all of America's most pressing problems. That's right! The future of the GOP, gridlock in Washington, D.C., education reform, civility in political discourse, race relations, urban development, inconsistencies in national security policy, the bloat of the federal bureaucracy, and other dilemmas are all relics of the past!

:lifter

...Unfortunately, due to the chemical interaction of vodka and Starbucks dark roast coffee, the details of those solutions are increasingly fuzzy. (WTH! I was supposed to be taking notes? I thought you were taking notes!) :confused::(:o

Even so, I'm pretty sure we agreed on the following key points:

• There are a lot of Asians in Asia.
• Good looking women tend to look good.
• Tall people are often taller than short people.
• Squeaky shoes are noisy.
• Dragnet was a great television show.
• L.A. area LEOs named Malloy should expect Adam-12 references.
• There's no such thing as too many Starbucks.
• There's no such thing too much coffee.
• Drinking decaf makes no sense what so ever.
• I am neither OCD nor bitter.

Hey ZD - you wanna verify agreement on that last one? :p

Thanks for being a great guide and host, Sigaba. The monument to the 442nd was... well... monumental.

Yes, I specifically remember asking you to take notes. I think.

I do need to work on my Land Nav skills in large hotels with labyrintian hallways.

I could have done without the rain on my trip back to San Pedro... or the exodus of cars at 6:30 pm. (I thought it was the begining of the Z.A. and the end of ZD.)

There are a LOT of good-looking women in the Little Tokyo area of downtown LA. While we sat in Starbucks the same tall, svelte, young, lovely, long-haired blonde came in THREE times - each time in a different outfit. That doesn't happen at Starbucks in Phoenix!

Thanks, again. Nice to put a real-life person with an online personality.

Don't share this with your 'neighbors'!
 

Like this: (first 27 seconds only... unless ya wanna)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-lgnXM54Zw

As was stated... memories are fuzzy. :D

That said, IF Sigaba is OCD, he hid it very well. (He does get cold easily, however!:p)

The only thing that was bitter was the Pike's Place medium roast I had! :)

When I looked at the preview of my last post and saw my THREE smilies coupled with PedOncoDoc's ONE, I was immediately reminded of Big Teddy... and how much I miss him here.

The sadness only lasted a second or two, and then a flood of good memories from his many humorous (or attempts at humorous) posts, as well as some of his "senior moments" replaced them. How I wish I could have met him in person.

Ya know ZD .... you really know how to take the wind out of someones sails.

Here I am, enjoying a nice 65 degree sunny day, here in the Mile High city, thoughts of beautiful Asian women running through my head, coffee, Asian women getting coffee .....

And then you post this ....:mad:

I miss the 'Ol Walrus too, and with Da Bears being 7-1, he'd have been loving life right, even more now.

Thanks Pal (ZD). :p

By L.A. standards, conditions were arctic (it was under 80 degrees F.)

Can we get something settled once and for all? I'm not OCD--I'm not--absolutely, flatly not. (Would a person with ODC have sat on the wrong side of the table, i.e., his back to the door, at two different establishments? No. See.)

But if I were OCD, I did a good job of hiding the evidence.

• I arrived plenty early to do those common sense things--three times-- that look like OCD to the untrained eye.
• ZD only saw two of the three jackets I had. (Because it might have snowed.)
• He didn't see the post its, nor the extra pens, nor the bottle of Purell, nor the three Moleskine notebooks, nor the back up library card.

I'm glad that's settled.

There's proof! Would a person with OCD not have corrected that error? :D

The ONLY reason you sat with your back to the door in all establishments was that this old man is still pretty quick at avoiding the "Wild Bill" Hickok chair! (Or... you were just being polite.):lifter

I agree with that!

Then I take it he saw the back up collar stays? :D

Pat

No, those remain safely hidden behind a back up form of photo identification in a way that they balance out a back up key in case I do a Peter Griffin <<LINK>>.