August 25, 2002 The USA Buffet is swiftly approaching. Here's a template of the display for the NYC trip, but take it with a grain of salt...I put it in 24 bit for the moment so I lost some color depth. August 20, 2002 I have a new link of the day...maybe I ought to rename link of the day, small obsession of the day. By the way, I'm on vaction but I have loads of time on my hands which is why I've been updating this page like mad! I'm thinking of creating a page for Matt and Christina...well a page for each of them linked together...I think that's better, probably more for us sighted folk than for them, but it'll be fun. As I've said before this entire page is based on the html from Ericka's page and I've found no flaws with it...Go ERICKA! August 17, 2002 Vacation is much needed and gone too soon. No secret, went to Los Angeles with my dad to see my bro, Philip. The schedule of events: landed Wednesday, August 7 in the afternoon EST, went to the hotel, met up with Phil, zoomed over to his apartment then took a quick tour of Topanga Canyo Road. Thursday, August 8 in the morning we went to Santa Monica and went to see the place where my grandma used to live north of Wilshire Boulevard...the buildings are not the same but the old church behind it is still there. We went to see the pier and on we went to Universal Studios to take the tour. But you couldn't take the tour alone, you had to get the whole deal. Friday, the morning we spent at the Farmer's Market, the evening at the Hollywood Bowl where the Ride of the Valykeries, Jupiter, Harry Potter and The Lord of the Rings were playing...the composer was there on friday altough all I saw of him was a stick figure from the nosebleed seats. Saturday we went to Chinatown and had a dim sum lunch and went shopping, then we saw Bel Air and headed back to the Graystone Mansion. Sunday we went to see the Crystal Cathedral...gorgeous by the way...mostly because of the pipe organ and music that emanates from the place. Then we drove down to the beach in San Diego. Monday we went to Catalina. Tuesday we drove up the mountains to Mt. Wilson...and we saw quite a few cacti...and an awesome view. Want more?