Californians

Well, hope everyone had a great 4th of July. I heard it was kinda wet and cool in New England. It was hot here -- about 80 degrees. I guess 80 is the new hot. This weather is going to take some getting used to. We finally got the TV going and were able to listen to the local forecast. Boy, the meteorologists here have to deal with 60's at the coast and 100's inland.

But the night cooled off nice. Unfortunately, it was a bit foggy (smoggy?), so we could not really see the big fireworks off Fisherman's Wharf very well; we could not really get the spray of color and the full size of the bursts. But we could see fireworks that were (I think) at the Berkeley Marina better, but that display was smaller.

Slowly unpacking. My car is here; that's a relief. Today, I wired my bookshelves to the wood ceiling (they are in front of a mirror, so I could not secure it to the wall). I hear they got a thing out here: earthquakes.