I'm cheating a little bit and putting this entry out an hour early, when it's not actually Sunday yet.  I need to implement some kind of headline system, or group my entries into categories so I avoid starting a new day just to get some seperation between personal and editorial entries.

Yesterday I spent the day with people whose company I enjoy (well, Laurel is arguably on the border).  In the morning I went out to breakfast with Kartik.  We spent a couple of hours discussing politics and culture, particularly Bush's handling of the Iraq issue (is he crazy?!) and lack of cultural sensitivity.  In name, Kartik is a Democrat and I'm a Republican, but in reality we're both fiscal conservatives and social liberals.  Also, the requisite time was spent bagging on Brea and moaning the fact that we're here.  Kartik leaves for medical school in Chicago in a week.  I will miss talking with him, and I hope we can keep in touch through e-mail.

In the evening dad drove the family up to Los Angeles.  We had dinner at Phillipe's, a classic LA restaurant that my grandpa used to take the family to before Dodger games.  They're most famous for their French dip sandwiches and hot mustard.  Phillipe's is a family tradition, I've even taken Shirley there once.  Afterwards, the family scooted up the 110 to Pasadena.  While dad, mom, Annie and Laurel browsed Vroman's bookstore, I snuck away to Canterbury Records and picked up several LP's, including the Annie musical, the Promises Promises musical (a Bacharach/David cooperation), a Don Ho precursor "The Extraordinary Kui Lee", the soundtrack to 1964's "The Umbrella's of Cherbourg", and a copy of Carmina Burana.  Being out of the country for a year, I'm too out-of-touch to spend over ten dollars on a CD.  In fact, I'm not sure I'll every be willing to spend that much on music anymore after having tasted the sweet wine of music piracy in China.  Across the street from Vroman's is Cliff's Books, which had a copy of William Gibson's <a href="http://www.kokogiak.com/amazon/detpage.asp?sb=s&amp;asin=0441569595">Neuromancer</a> for four dollars.  By this time, my wallet was down to $1.50, and the book is due back at Fullerton Library in a couple of weeks, so I'll wait and pick it up then.

For people who follow Apple Computers, <a href="http://www.macnyt.dk/default.tpl?news=20020702040337">the history of the Apple logo</a> is an interesting read.

There is a <a href="http://www.netcrucible.com/blog/2002/08/18.html#a234">Gou Bu Li baozi restaurant in Vancouver</a>?!