Whew!

Back in action again. Glad the network is fixed! Clicked the link for the page, just to see, and just in case...

Just came back from seeing Erin Brockovich--great flick.

Thursday Daytime

More on this network outage... Surreal... felt disconnected. Then I thought about the March 25 event... how strange to have a network outage days before it transpires. Made me wonder if the meeting would have a strange "what's going on?" dreamlike quality. Would we have to show up to Cupertino to find out why our sites aren't accessible?

Whee! According to Oliver, the connection to editthispage is faster now than it was before. Splendid!!!

Speaking of March 25....The car's in the shop, getting serviced for tomorrow's road trip. After that, washing and waxing.... Then a ceremonial removal of the hardtop for California driving. It'll be nice to have a convertible again. : )

...and I've been itching for a road trip in a big way.

How fun to surf again to others' sites once again! I tried out the acronym finder that Kate recommended. My initials aren't as interesting as hers, tho I find "Suomen Ammattiliittojen Keskusjarjesto (Central Organization of Finnish Trade Unions)" rather amusing.

Traffic Jam Discoveries -- The Oldest Operating McDonald's

Monday, while driving, I got in a horrible traffic jam, got off the freeway, and took surface streets to get around the clog on the 605 freeway. Driving down Lakewood Blvd, I saw an ancient McDonald's sign. Having brought my digital camera with me on a lark, I pulled in to shoot a picture of the sign.

Speedy McDonald atop a single golden arch. Wow--this is a relic of a McDonald's! The place is an older Hamburger Stand, with the golden arches.

A little further over, there's a smaller, more ancient building, which turns out to be the Speedy McDonald Museum. The guys sitting at that table were looking at me, some tourist with camera in hand. Little did they know that I had a 2020Hindsight site to feed with interesting memorabilia, and was taking a little respite from that damn traffic jam.

Inside, a sign shows the prices for the original McDonald's... check that out... Fifteen cents!!

There also was a sign that told the history of the original McDonalds.

There it is... the humble beginnings of what, some 50 years later, became a member of the Dow 30.