How one doesn't think of Los Angeles

I don't know quite what city this looks like - but not, to be sure, Los Angeles.  It was another very wet morning, and we had to drive over to mid-town to talk to our TIAA adviser (that's the company that looks after the funds that will provide for us down the road - well, not exactly as a pension, because they fluctuate with the markets, but this is the common organization used in lieu of pension schemes by most US universities.  Essentially they're investment brokers, I guess).  We have a very enthusiastic and apparently efficient adviser there, but all the same, it always feels a bit like going to the financial dentist.

But the view from his office!!  Pretty wonderful at the best of times, but with the clouds blowing in from the sea, it was spectacular.