San Francisco, just Me!

I got to go to San Francisco.  All by myself.  Yay me!

Froggy Fountain

TransAmerica

ChrisP

If my dog beach looked like this my dog would look like that instead of the blob that she is.

Portraiture by ChrisP

And on to New York

I spent slightly less than 24 hours in New York, and here are the pictures to prove it!

Louis Armstrong's grave, down the street from the home I was staying in

As close as I got to the Empire State Building

The Flatiron Building

Closer...

Another view of Empire State

Shopping?

Union Square

Angelina Ballerina, the musical, this one is for the kids...

Market in Union Square

Philadelphia - All by myself

I was recently in Philadelphia for a library conference, here are some pictures of my trip!

My hotel, I was on the 15th floor

City Hall, across the street from my hotel

More City Hall

More City Hall, a lot different from ours...

the City Of....

The King's court in Independence Hall

Where the Declaration and the Constitution were signed.  Really.

You know what this one is.

Philly Amtrak station, on my way to NY

Seth's View

For his birthday I got Seth an iPod touch.  An all in one music player, game player, camera, video camera, movie watcher and more.  I wasn't sure at first, but not only does the price easily lower than buying all these types of things for him, it takes up WAY less space.  He is also taking excellent care of it, and puts it up high whenever he is not using it.  On to the pics below.  These are all pictures he has taken with it.  It actually is a way better resolution camera than the kid one he used to have.  It also has the camera on the front and the back, so his self portrait studies are numerous and hilarious.  Alas I can't post them all, so here is a taste.  I'm breaking this into two posts, so more pics to come.

Happenings at the CSULB Library

Lest we forget that I spend a significant amount of time each week working my "real" job, here are some pics from the library over the last few weeks.  First off some interesting art has been displayed.  The first I didn't get a picture of, but my friend Jospeh did here.  Yes that is a giant Starbucks cup made out of used Starbucks cups.  I hate to know how many days it took the artist to collect cups, I fear too few.  This was only on display for about 30 minutes one lunch time.  Bummer, because I knew lots of people who wanted to  erm, knock it down.

Other art, apparently a pile of left over projects from an intro sculpting class.  This one has been around for a week or two now:

Another day I got to attend the opening of a week long Chinese Film and Culture Festival and see this Face-Changing performance.  It was very cool.  If you would like to see what it was like, check out this YouTube video.

A rainy day:

Then last week was the Great Shakeout, and here is another great picture by Joseph, of the library evacuation.

So while mostly I am at my desk, the reference desk, or teaching classes.  There are a few amusements at work.

Disneyland!

A final DLand trip before Jeff's pass expired.  Produced probably the best video ever, check out the YouTube channel on the right.

Jeff took this one

Jeff took this one too!

Crafty Cathy