Eye Level Pasadena

Office hours for Saturday, September 1 will be at Metropolitan (across the street from Vroman’s) from 9:00 a.m. – noon.

Wireless is free at Metropolitan. I’ll have my laptop with me. If you want help with your existing blog, help starting a blog, or help figuring out what RSS is and how to use it, come on by. Also, please feel free to come by just to visit!

Beginning this weekend, Eye Level Pasadena office hours will be different.

They’ll be every other week on Saturday mornings from 9:00 a.m. – noon, and they’ll be at local coffee shops with free wireless. I’ll have my laptop with me. If you want help with your existing blog, help starting a blog, or help figuring out what RSS is and how to use it, come on by. Also, please feel free to come by just to visit!

I’m still deciding which Pasadena coffee shop to start with. Any suggestions?

Tableau Vivante is thinking about organizing a local farmers’ market tour. Head on over to her site and let her know if you are interested!

The Pasadena City College Courier is using WordPress for its new website. Comments are enabled (although you need to register with the site before you can comment), articles have permalinks, and the site publishes an RSS feed.

Aaron Proctor got to the park early and saved us the best picnic spot.

Aaron and Gavin being silly

Gavin, my husband, best friend and picnic co-organizer, blogs at DrawMatic.

Rita from the Los Angeles Times Pressmens 20 Year Club

Publius and Centinel unmasked.

Just kidding. These two are actually Kelly from West Coast Grrlie Blather and Susan Kitchens from 2020 Hindsight and Family Oral History Using Digital Tools.

Miss Havisham and Larry Wilson

Charlie the Border Collie

Gena Haskett videoblogs at Out On The Stoop.

Mike from blogwaffe, Robin Salzer of Robin’s Wood Fire BBQ, and Gavin talking, and Ed Padgett from the Los Angeles Times Pressmens 20 Year Club taking a picture.

Robin brought ribs from his restaurant, Robin’s Wood Fire BBQ & Grill.

David from The Writerly Pause

Kathy from KChristieH Blog

Debbi Swanson Patrick, Altadena Above It All

Greg blogs at Apparent Horizons. He is also blogwaffe‘s roommate and dictator of the Caltech grad students’ book club. (It’s a mighty fine book club, by the way.)

Doug and Deena Willis write about the Pasadena real estate market at Up2Date.

Tableau Vivante blogs about the local farmers’ markets, and she brought Kadota and Mission figs and Kyoho grapes from that morning’s Pasadena farmers’ market.

Miss Havisham brought her famous deviled eggs.

Cucumber sandwiches

Carol Woodliff from livewellstressless.info and Robin Salzer

Kolby Kirk of eHarmony Labs and Kahunna.net, and Aaron

Aaron and Kelli

Todd Ruiz of Under the Dome and Ed Padgett

Kolby’s electric bike

Kelly and Miss Havisham

I think an idea has just been hit upon. Maybe it was this one.

Midway through the picnic, we took a group photo in tribute to Foothill Cities and all of the anonymous bloggers and commenters in our virtual neighborhood. Debbi Swanson Patrick of Altadena Above It All was the photographer.

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Other people’s posts:

Out On The Stoop: Pasadena Bloggers Picnic – Day 6
Tableau Vivante: MISC: Ideas are dangerous things…
The Adventures of Aaron Proctor: More Picnic Fun!
The Foothill Cities Blog: Bloggers on Holiday
Under the Dome: There was a picnic
Miss Havisham’s Tea Party: Building a Community
The Adventures of Aaron Proctor: Closed Captioning
West Coast Grrly Blather: Bloggers United
The Adventures of Aaron Proctor: Picnic in Review!
Los Angeles Times Pressmens 20 Year Club: Blogroll from Yesterday’s Bloggers Picnic
Los Angeles Times Pressmens 20 Year Club: Eye Level Pasadena Blogger Picnic
KCristieH Blog: Pasadena Bloggers Picnic: The Official Picture
The Adventures of Aaron Proctor: Picnic!
2020 Hindsight: Greater-Pasadena-area bloggers picnic
Altadena Above It All: Blogger’s Picnic

Susan started a Greater-Pasadena-area blogger group on Facebook.

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P.S. Gavin and I have somebody’s purple folding chair and Kathy’s tablecloth. Email me or leave a comment if you’d like them back.

P.P.S. Except for the group photo (which everyone participated in willingly), I think that if I don’t have a picture of you here, it is because you didn’t want your photo and name blogged here. If I’ve mixed things up and posted pictures that shouldn’t be online, or not posted pictures that should be, just let me know.

Thanks for coming everyone! And if you’d like to be added to the invitation list for the third quarterly Pasadena (and neighboring cities) bloggers’ picnic, leave a comment or email me at eyelevelpasadena@gmail.com.

Yesterday at the local bloggers’ picnic, Gena told me about this new Pasadena City College blog:

Books that get “under our skin”…
“We have all read books that trouble us, irritate us, yet stay with us for a long time after we turn the last page. Sometimes they ‘get under our skin’ and stay for a lifetime… In celebration of SKIN: the Arts and Ideas Festival in Pasadena, join Pasadena City College in recording these memorable books. The page is open…literature, art, the sciences, music, history or social perspectives. Share your experiences with the books that got ‘under your skin.’”

Head on over to Books that get “under our skin”… and write about a book that stuck with you.

Someone is organizing a kickball game tomorrow morning at Hamilton Park and inviting the general public to come play.

Lovebirds Cafe and Bakery

Lovebirds Cafe and Bakery is a good place to sit and work with a laptop. The people are friendly, the wireless is free, and the bakery is on site.

Lovebirds Cafe and Bakery
921 E Colorado Blvd
Pasadena, CA 91106
(626) 583-8888
lovebirdscafe.com
Free wireless

Pink flowered trees in bloom at Central Park

This apartment building is on the move.

Half of it is parked in this public lot on Union across the street from Vroman’s.

It looks like a giant doll house.

Here’s the front close up. Look, you can see all the mailboxes by the front door.

The other half is still at its original site on Union near Los Robles getting ready to move later this week.