Going back to Cali

After a long and miserable flight (I had a 4 hour layover and a middle seat on the long flight), I am back in Cali - it's been about a year and a half. I will be here for two weeks - time to celebrate Father's Day, my dad's birthday, and spend some time with my mom and Chelle. Some things change and some things don't- the urban spraul continues to expand in the Inland Empire so that a lot of areas are hardly recognizable, my dad has grown a goatee (which actually looks pretty good), and my dad's car still has an overwhelming cherry smell when you first get in it. It's good to be home and see the mountains! Oh how I miss mountains - they just make the horizon so beautiful. For Father's Day, we went up to Lake Arrowhead. We went their for Father's Day in 2002 so I suppose it is a sort of tradition.

Last night, Cathy asked me if I had seen "Brokeback Mountain" yet. I told her I hadn't and she explained that if I was interested in watching it, they owned it and it wasn't as bad as they thought it would be. I didn't know how to explain that it wasn't the homosexuality that I had an issue with but that the main premise of the movie seeemed to be cheating and I just do not like books or movies that glorify cheating - I just didn't know how to tell her this!

Well, I am off to bathe in the jacuzzi tub then I am driving up to Northridge and LA to see some folks and spend the night with Chelle after having lunch with Cathy at Pitzer (where she works).