we just finished watching episode 4 of chef’s table which features niki nakayama and n/naka. and i want to tell the whole world about this series and this episode but i i’m selfish because once i do that, i’ll never get a table again.

this morning, i bragged about how i see PIPs all the time: “5 a day!” but then i realized i was exaggerating so i amended my statement to be: “i can say with confidence that i see 3 a day, no matter the distance i drive.”

by the time i arrived home from my round trip  to santa monica (6.9 miles), i had seen 3 and i still haven’t driven the 55 miles to work and back. 

chevy volt – where are you?

it arrived!

look what i found when pulling out the matisse serigraph!

flattening the art after painfully and painstakingly cleaning both sides of the glass and rearranging the drawers!

i am right-handed and am certainly not ambidextrous but i do use my left hand for certain tasks where my right hand should be dominant:

• i hold cards in my right hand and deal with my left.
• i’m more likely to win arm wrestling with my left (but that could be because others’ havve weak left hands).
• i can write legibly and reasonably quickly with my left hand (sprained my right wrist skiing in middle school and found out quickly how easily i could adapt to writing with my left).
• i hold the steering wheel predominantly with my left hand.
• i sift rice and fruit under running water with my left while holding the strainer/colander with my right.
• although not a hand, i unclip my left foot preferentially from my bike pedals

i spent a lovely morning drinking coffee, catching up on the news, and walking beverly drive while looking for architecture to photograph. i don’t even know why i looked up, but i’m glad i did. the only thing i should’ve done differently was experiment with the in-camera HDR/DRO to reclaim detail in the sky. next time…

we gave kl and mh anna’s bed yesterday. it went to a good home. took me 3 years to part with it. i still miss her.