California was cold. The Bay Area to be exact. Even out in the East Bay, where it is usually hot and sun-baked, brown and crunchy this time of year, it was chilly. The brown crunch was there, but so was heavy morning fog and then an annoying cold wind that made sitting still outside impossible. I know that regular Seattle people, the kind who wear shorts and Birkenstocks in January when it’s hailing, would probably be working up a sweat.

I guess I complained a little too much, because coming back home yesterday evening, I was greeted by temps in the low 50s and rain. Today more rain. Well, at least its nice and green. It certainly is a startling contrast to California, especially when looking down from my airplane seat.

And they are having a nursing shortage in California. I guess even with the ultra high nursing salaries, they just can’t compete with the astronomical cost of housing. Maybe if hospitals are really all that desperate, they can enlist some govt help and buy up some condos and homes and then resell them to nurses at normal prices. Then watch the shortage disappear like magic.