Another Allman Bros. song - Whipping Post

"Drown myself in sorrow, as I look at what you've done..."

That's Not Me/ The Beach Boys

"I once had a dream so I packed up and split for the city,

I soon found out that my lonely life wasn't so pretty..."

Thanks Carol!

Baby come back, you can blame it all on me

I was wrong, and I just can't live without you

I nominate Carolb to start FNM for as long as she is willing! 🥰

It looks brand new. Doesn't he like living in a hotel? <hiss>

When you said the owner had designed it himself I'd expected something 'original', not this stone wedding cake.

It’s lying in wait for Alabama’s next lottery winner.

1217, it was so wonderful to see Tracy Chapman performing again! That duet makes me tear up and smile too every time I see it. Thanks for sharing.

foodonastump, the house in L.A. has not increased in value over the past year and a half or so, but at least is remaining stagnant, whereas the house in Cathedral City has been increasing in value, and so there is that.

I thought it would be better to stay in L.A. and for Kevin to look for work here, but he is dead set on moving to the desert and working remotely, even if he makes a lot less money. Our expenses will be lower there because of lower property insurance, but utilities are higher there, due to the cost of A/C, even though we have solar panels, which we are forced to rent, since that was a condition of buying the house.

Food is cheaper in Cathedral City because we do most of our shopping at Cárdenas, an inexpensive Mexican market close to our house, and we do not have that many options for food shopping, relatively speaking.

There are no Japanese markets, and the so-called "Asian" markets are really just Filipino, and I do not like Filipino food. I will probably have to make trips back to L.A. to do to Japanese and Korean markets for items that I cannot find online. At least I can get decent sushi at Gelson's in Rancho Mirage or at a sushi restaurant near my house in Cathedral City, but it still does not come anywhere close to what I can get in L.A.

I also cannot get Ethiopian food in the desert, and so I will have to learn how to make injera bread - my attempts so far have not been great, but I can get teff flour online.

We are also going to have to change all of our doctors, and this disturbs me even more. My doctor in L.A. said that I can find good doctors in Palm Springs, but I am not happy about having to make the change. I just hope it will be easier to get appointments than it has been in L.A.

The population of metro Palm Springs-Cathedral City-Indio is 504,000, which hardly qualifies as a small town. The Eisenhower Health Group has many facilities in the Coachella Valley and ranks #1 in the Inland Empire and #20 in California, putting it in the top 5%, and it also has research associated with UC Riverside. I think it should be adequate for my needs, and it does specialize in geriatric care, since that is a large proportion of the population in the Coachella Valley.

I think that Eisenhower will have all of the specialists that I will need, and I am not worried about finding the care that I will need. I think I will be in good company, considering the demographics of the Coachella Valley. There are many worse places I could be moving to. It is definitely a step down from UCLA, but it is a step that I am willing to take.