I Love LA

The Eye of the Storm

The truck started starting again. This was the second time it stopped starting. Guess it doesn’t like the cold. Neighbor saw me walking the dog in a tee shirt yesterday and remarked, “Well, don’t you look like Spring!” 50 degrees today out here in rural Rhode Island, population 7,997. And, now, the forecast calls for sunny Pasadena.

Got me a ticket on an aeroplane for SCaLE 23x where I’ll be talking about what I saw at the revolution… the Revolution OS that is. UpScale, Friday 3/6 at 6:30pm: “A Wall Street Analysis of Open Source.” I didn’t learn nothing at Goldman, Sachs and I have seen plenty in OSS to have a view, so, be there, or be less informed. Also, by the grace of God, presentations are limited to 5 minutes, which is about all anyone should ever have to say anything. Did I mention, I love LA.

Who wouldn’t after the week we’ve had, the Blizzard of ‘26 topping the Blizzard of ‘78? Took me 8 hours to dig out myself and the old man across the street from the record 38 inches of snow, and that was with the aid of his snowblower that I borrowed. Of course, that thing fired right up - first try - unlike my van. Makes me wonder why I left sunny San Luis Obispo. Just to see a New England winter? Hardly, or, well, partly. Otherwise to be close to sensei in Albany. For one who has lived 18 months in a van, that three hour drive is nothing.

Next time the sun will set before 6pm will be Sunday, November 1, 2026. 246 blessed days ahead. Birds are chirping, dogs are barking, and I’ve met 31 new OSS people from friendly LinkedIn cold-calls in the last three weeks. You’re all on this mail. Sadly, I’m still struggling that DELL laptop; ignoring it like that’s my job even though the exact opposite is the case. But, thankfully, I’m enjoying that too. And, Patriots lost and Bad Bunny was awesome. So, life is good, and we’ll see you all in person in LA.