I'm writing from a McDonald's in 29 Palms, Calif, the only place I could find wireless access in this town. $2.95 for two hours -- not too bad, considering I'd spend more than that on coffee in any cafe in SF that has free wireless.
Last night's art opening in Joshua Tree -- 10 miles west of here -- went perfectly. Since the reception was being held in the open sandy courtyard between two converted garages that were the gallery space, it was important that the wind die down, and it did, so that the evening was perfectly cool and peaceful. There was a great crowd there, me and a bunch of other friends of the artist tended bar, and in general it was a great evening.
Pictures will be up by Monday evening. (I forgot my digital camera and have to have the instant camera pix converted.) Watch this space.
This morning Christine treated us all for brunch, and I'm about to go out to the Twentynine Palms Airport to watch Philip's cousin Rick take a birthday ride in a glider. Later there is supposed to be some hiking.
It really is just perfect weather down here. Perhaps a little cooler than mid-September usually is -- just right.
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how was the McDonalds wifi?
$2.95 for two hours -- and very good signal. The only difficulty was figuring out exactly what to click on to pay for the service. But once that was taken care of, it was good and fast.
They were actually blasting the signal for a couple hundred feet. I could have sat in my car across the street and logged in as well.
By the way -- supposedly there's a card you can purchase that you can add money to to enable you to use the service. But that's not how it worked at all. As with most pay services, you start up your laptop and start your browser, and instead of going to your customary home page it goes to the McDonald's wifi page. Then (with some difficulty, as I said) you find a link to click on to enter your credit card number and voila, you're on.
Thanks for th einfo. It just seems such a weird place for it to work ok. ... You know the Burger King across the street from Ground Zero has it now? Don't know if they charge for it, but I know it's free in the rebuilt park just across the street.
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