Quick programming note
By the time you read this, I’ll be in Cleveland! I’ll have a very short & sweet post on Wednesday, but there won’t be a Sunday story. When I get back, I hope to have at least one story from our adventures in Cleveland, where I plan to see a Guardians game and visit the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame!
The other day, Christina asked if I could pick up her prescription at the pharmacy. I said sure, then she hit me with the catch.
“It’s the pharmacy at the Kaiser hospital in Panorama City,” she said. “Do you have time for that?”
I glanced at my schedule. I had set aside the morning for writing, and I had a Zoom meeting in the afternoon. It was also laundry day, but that’s a dawn to dusk kind of operation in our household. Still, if I timed it right and if traffic cooperated, I could run the errand around lunch time and be back for my Zoom meeting.
“No problem,” I said.
But that wasn’t true. The errand was a big problem, and as an Angeleno with deep roots in America’s traffic c…
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