Crashing California

This last week has carried with it a Chain of Pacific Storms through Southern California. Because of "El Nino" (warmer Ocean temps this past year) the jet stream has centered itself directly over San Diego and we've been dealt MUCH heavy rain, thunderstorms and TONS of wind ... we even had a TORNADO/WaterSpout warning on Tues and Wed.! We've lost power in our house twice and there is flooding in some older areas of the city and esp. near the coast. We are a bit higher than most, and thank goodness we live on the second floor. The storm surge and swell is making for a VERY angry Ocean. Who says Californian's don't experience winter, has well, another thing coming! Here is some video we shot this morning ... Jay's grumpy! ;) (you can tell, I think he may be one of those people who is completely affected by the sun, and lack thereof) lol Till Next Blog! love, a.

Long awaited lovingly fearfully anticipated expectations take fruition through pain and blood water and wonder love spilling over and under first breath giving spirit a flash of life plucked from eternity to mark earth with her own beauty fragile first born first cries I am alive ------------------------------ (written of our friends who, at this very moment are in labor giving birth to their first girl) ------------------------------ I have had dreams in the past that I have a child. I can't recall whether they've been boys or girls. Just that there is a baby ... and I am carrying it around on my hip ... or hunting for it (which I know, is pretty strange). As I write this two of our good friends are in the hospital having they're first baby, a little girl. While I wait to hear the news of her safe arrival, I can't help but think of, well, babies. I've had so many friends and acquaintances in the last years have their first baby, it inevitably comes to mind. In...

Woah! time flies when you live and get older -- I am right in the middle (literally) of finishing my Break Forth deadline ... just wrapping up changes and will be sending their magazine to the printers tonight ... so needless to say, I have moments in between where I can write, post pics, blog etc ... so, well, that's what I'm doing! This last weekend we played a show on Saturday night at a club in Oceanside called "Pier View Pub/Bubs Whiskey Dive". It was most DEF. a dive ... but, it was pleasantly crowed with people and though the sound was really hideous (next to no monitor and one of those rooms that sucks the sound into various black holes) the crowd was decent. There was the typical crazy drunk, except this time it was a woman, who, besides looking right out of it, almost broke Jay's Gibson and John's Bass by deciding to fall right into them (and the table we were at, spilling drinks breaking glass and getting Kristin, our loyal photog. soaked). There ...