Well, it's that time of semester again. I have to think of things to put on the midterm exams. I started this process last night (Sunday) for my Physics 151 class. It was a sort of finishing-off of a weekend (filled with gardening and house cleaning), before another busy work week began. So rather than do this at home (where I'd get distracted by a million and one other "pressing" things) I decided to spend a couple of hours down at my "local", the Cat and Fiddle,
which is a rather successful approximation of an English pub, with the bonus of being in an old-Los Angeles hacienda-style setting with a lovely large courtyard with fountain, while still having your standard pub-style interior complete with dartboards, and fish and chips, bangers and mash, and steak-and-kidney pie on the menu. Excellent! (My only complaint is that the wait staff are not stroppy ...