I'm pretty sure he approved. Moments of genuine California weirdness have been scarce. Not much else. I started my new job at the San Jose Mercury News on the 7th of September. Oddly enough, a couple dozen people have quit in the time since my arrival.
Truth is they're going off to become cyber scribes or just do something else with their lives.
They're the only ones left after all the bright, ambitious people have gotten better jobs elsewhere. Well, it's a myth. Sorry to disappoint. It's true many have gotten preposterously wealthy, but most of us are scraping by on more prosaic incomes. California Route 1 is one curve after another filled with eye-popping cliffs, rocks, beaches, mountains coming right up out of the sea, etc.