In “Day After Tomorrow”, a massive tornado ripped through Los Angeles. Yesterday, a baby one touched down in Riverside. Miraculously, nobody got hurt. If you look at my Twitter history there, you’ll see my weather report from atop the 34th floor of Downtown Los Angeles. After the week of heat, we were cooling down again.  And then suddenly, yesterday, rain clouds came out of nowhere and the rain poured for a good 10-15 minutes.  As in, sheets and sheets of it.  Looking out the north side of the building, it looked like snow. Then it was sunny again. Then it...
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A row of what I think are jasmine bushes underneath our bedroom window have bloomed for the past few weeks. I didn’t know the neighbor apartment has such plant. I mean, I haven’t smelled it since we moved in, I don’t think. The first time I caught a whiff of this season’s bloom though, I thought to myself… “Mom’s visiting.” It didn’t help that the first time, I was the only one who caught the scent. Brandon was a bit too far away from the window to smell anything. You see, one of mom’s favorite flowers are what Thai people...
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My Vista weather-a-mabob said it’s 82F outside. My hair still damped from a shower half and hour earlier when I stepped outside to take out the trash at 2 p.m. I walked out, down the steps, around the courtyard, through the 6-car parking lot, dumped the trash and reverse the route. My hair is mostly dry when I came back up. I mean, after a few months of 3-day heat waves on and off, you have to wonder if it’s really summer yet.  Look at last week!  It was cold during the week and then the weekend shot up to...
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