Friends abound

Hey, I gripe about being alone and look what happens. Medic guy is taking us to dinner tomorrow for being s nice to him when he got here. Big J up and moves here and we hang out the day he flies in. A Canadian from my gaming clan, (which is semi-dormant since the one game we all played most kinda went to the wayside) visited with his wife. I drove them around sightseeing one day, and we had a picnic with another clan member last Sunday. Medium sized J invited us up for BBQ in Hale'iwa.

Suddenly, I'm not so alone :)

Big J reaffirmed some feelings that I've had for a while. San Diego was a great place to grow up, but it's gone to crap. We're both happy to have lived there, and happy to be gone. I miss my friends and family that live there, but I have no major yearnings to return to far-south L.A. / northern Tijuana. They can keep the smog, traffic, ever swelling population, drought, and illegal aliens all to themselves. Granted, those are problems most major US cities are facing, but it's so different from what it was 20 years ago that it just disgusts me. I'm not saying that it's an overall bad place, but given the decision there are much more desirable places to live. Here, I can drive down the highway and see beautiful greenery. If you see that in So Cal - it's landscaped & irrigated (with water stolen from the Colorado).

Usually, I can kick back during lunch on the lanai (patio) of somebody's house that I'm working on. Often I can see the beach and the beautiful reefs, occasionally you can see gray whales jumping out of the water, and sometimes its clouds kissing the peaks of near-vertical 3000' Ko'olau mountains jutting out of the jungle....
...and think, "How can I possibly top this?"