Rain, Rain, Rain

Hi All,

What a month January has been!  We had 3" more rain than Seattle, Washington!  The area has been parched for several years and really needs the moisture. Of course, when it rains in the valleys, it snows in the mountains, especially above 4000 ft. (1,233 M).  The area is now 122% above normal, which is also a good thing for the coming summer.  However, the area homeowners are still asked to reduce or eliminate lawn sprinkler usage.

I finally got around to doing one of the "other" things on my list.  A couple from Calgary, Alberta and I went into Los Angeles yesterday to take in the Peterson Automotive Museum. Peterson is the man who began the automotive, truck and motorcycle magazine publishing empire here in LA.

Our treatment gantry (G3) had technical difficulties, so we didn't get away as soon as we would have liked, so when we got into town, we were hungry.  And what better place to take care of that hunger than Marie Callender's restaraunt on Wiltshire Ave. It was warm enought o sit out front in the sunshine.  A bonus, was that he Le Brea Tar Pits were directly across the street. So we went over and checked it out.  There is museum on site that has many of the skeletal remains including Saber-Toothed cats, Mastedons, Dire Wolves, Lions,  and others.  We didn't go in because we were there to see CARS!

And we were not disappointed.  Right before the entry was Art Arfons "Green Monster" (now no longer green, but red) that held the world speed record three different time, the last two times for only eight days each time.  The last record was 650 MPH (1040 KPH).

I as going to tell of some of the other cars here too, but the photo uploading feature is refusing to work, so I'll do that next time.

I completed treatment # 26 today.  I was canceled earlier this week.  G3 had gone down( the X-ray software was malfunctioning).  My appointment was for 7:45.  By 10:00 am I was still waiting.  When they get that backed up, then they begin to cancel patients because they don't want to pass a backlog on to the next shift (3:00 pm). I figured that I would cal back in the afternoon about 4:00 pm to see if they could fit me in.  WELL, I called and the software was malfunctioning again and they were already 1.5 hrs. behind and would be running until 11:00 pm, an hr. after they normally stopped.  I have virtually no side effects - a little burning at urination, but other wise I'm good.  Hit a bucket of balls this morning, back a little sore.  But the swing is slooowly improving.  Just needs to be lot more consistent.

I wish a HAPPY SABBATH to all.

Fred