My Word with Douglas E. Welch

Break time?, originally uploaded by dewelch.

Out for a coffee, and intellectual, recharge

Pizza with tortilla crust, originally uploaded by dewelch.

Our quick pizza. My sauce, provolone and large flour tortilla for crust. It gives me the thin and crispy crust with having to make my own crust.

Out geocaching a bit today, originally uploaded by dewelch.

Went out with the boy this afternoon to grab a few geocaches nearby. It was a bit warm but it felt good to get out for a while while Rosanne prepared her classes for the upcoming semester. Sometimes we all need a little quiet to get work done, so geocaching was a great way to get out of her hair for a while.

There are days when I really need to remember this…

“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.” George Bernard Shaw

Mission Santa Barbara Late Afternoon copy, originally uploaded by dewelch.

We spent most of yesterday (Sunday) in Santa Barbara with our friends, Liam and Rachel. We checked out the art show on the beach, Stearn’s Wharf and, of course, the Santa Barbara Mission.

Click the photo for a few more pictures from the day.

I just saw via LAist.com that the Max Headroom series will finally be available on DVD August 10, 2010.

I loved this 1987 series when it was new, but my lowly, off-air VHS copies gave up the ghost years ago. It would be great to share this with my son, too, as (surprise, surprise) he is interested in geeky things like this. I don’t normally go in for purchasing series on DVD, but this just might make it onto my wish list for my next birthday or other event.

Amazon Link: Max Headroom: The Complete Series – Available August 10, 2010

Albert Memorial, Hyde Park, London, originally uploaded by dewelch.

A photo from our walk around Hyde Park during our recent trip to the UK.

This is Queen Victoria’s memorial to her love, Prince Albert. It is quite a dramatic work of art and the gold shines in the unseasonably sunny London weather.

100_0766, originally uploaded by dewelch.

We took one morning on our trip to visit the New Globe Theatre in Southwark, near the site of the original Globe.

It is an amazing structure, but unfortunately we didn’t have the opportunity to see a play. Henry IV Part I was the matinee show with Macbeth being the evening one.

There are a lot more pictures of the Globe on my Flickr account. Click this picture to link there and check out my Photostream.

100_0751, originally uploaded by dewelch.

Platform 9 3/4 at Kings Cross Station, London, UK.

Part of a series of some of our favorite photos from our recent UK trip.

100_0078, originally uploaded by dewelch.

My friend, Liam and I, headed out to walk the trail to Millard Falls in the front country of the Angeles National Forest. Unfortunately, upon arriving we found that the trail to the fall is closed until at least September 2010.

That said, we had a great time poking about the parts of the creek that we could access. We saw newts and frogs and birds and more.

Below you will find a slide show from Flickr.com. Click a picture to enlarge it.