Fun weekend

Andrea and I spent Labor Day weekend at the beach, on Catalina Island and in Westwood.

Direct boat service from Los Angeles (Marina Del Ray, actually) to the island only recently began, and it's already popular. It's strange that Los Angeles, the biggest city in the West, let alone Southern California, didn't have direct service until recently. Long Beach, Orange County and San Diego had it. But not L.A.

Catalina is a weird little tourist area. It's part of Los Angeles county, but for obvious geographical reasons, its own little world. I just wonder what living there would be like. And I wonder whether they have DSL there.

And in totally random news, a fly just landed in my halogen lamp, and I can smell it burning.