Backtracking:

Wednesday

Our water was getting shut off again for plumbing wokr in the basement garage, so G and I went off to Universal Studios. Had a pleasant enough time, but disappointg: Jaws broke down when we got to him on the tour, though the tour is always fun, especially the "old Europe" sets where they filmed all those great Universal monster movies, the Psycho set, akll wonderful to see. Jurassic Park also broke down while we were on it. Universal totally lacks the sparkle and charm of Disneyland. I enjoy just walking around in Disneyland because so much care and thought and imagination went into every detail. Universal is much, I don't know, cruder?

Came back home and ordered a pizza.

Thursday

G & I awoke early and hit Runyon Canyon Park and took the high road, which climbs to 1200 feet or something. Needless to see we didn't make it that far but we did go further than our last attempt to reach the summit we see from our balcony. I'll post pictures when I post pics of our apartment -- you asked for it folks -- over the weekend.

Our new furniture arrived! We got two nice leather chairs and a nice bookcase set. Our living room looks like a fancy library now, just as we had envisioned. The leather chairs are sooooo comfortable. We set about unpacking our 19 boxes of books which amazingly took us 3 hours to unpack, then headed off to the market to buy a nice lamp to match. Stopped at a diner for dinner, came home to find that Tivo had corrected my program guide problam, huzzah! Set that up for download and then just rveled in ther comfort of our new recliners for a while. Stayed up too late though.

. . . and thus overslept today, but we went down to the fitness room and I did 10 miles on a steep grade on the exercise bike, while G did her usual circuit. Now a quick shower and we're off to breakfast at the Pantry, a famous and incredible old place downtown, then to the market, then to the movies later on to see the new Night Shyamalan flick.