Subject: Electronic Postcard 2 Hi Everyone! The ALA Midwinter conference is still going well. This one anyway. Midwinter '95 has been moved to Philadelphia. The next Annual is still in Miami. I've been told that there were a few aftershocks while I was here. I haven't felt any of them yet. Well, maybe one, when I was in bed, and just about to drift off to sleep -- I'm not sure. It's been rather cold lately, in the 50s and 60s. Rainy too. Watching the TV news last night, you'd think half the town has been floating away. Riots, fire, flood, earthquake -- and now rain, tornados, and mudslides. Not too bad in downtown, though. Part of the culture shock has been hearing traffic reports on the radio on the weekend. 6:30 on a Sunday evening, and you can still see unbroken lines of headlights and red tail lights on the freeway. They say that they average 75-100 traffic accidents a day here -- and that's when it's not raining. It doubles in weather like we've been having the past couple of days. Would you believe that I heard Hawaiian music on public radio station KCRW the other day? They have a program called "Cafe L. A.", in which they play a variety of music -- they had two songs from the group Hapa. I also got to Harry Shearer's Le Show, which used to be carried on Hawaii Public Radio's KIPO, until they cancelled it -- several weeks after I renewed my membership and told them that that was one of my favorite shows. Well, I'll be heading to LAX soon. See ya! Ralph Toyama / 73 and Aloha Automation Librarian /__ from University of Hawaii - Leeward Community College / Radio NH6PY/6 rtoyama@uhunix.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu / Los Angeles, CA, USA