We spent a bit of time watching children's TV with Madeleine, then headed to UCLA to go geocaching. We decided to take the bus, so we can now verify that LA does actually have usable public transit (and natural-gas powered, at that). The first cache was located in a botanical garden which unfortunately ended up being closed for the President's Day holiday. The second cache we did find, after a bit of going in and out of buildings and up and down stairs.
Later I tried to upload photos to Flickr, but Flickr was "having a massage" (one of their cute "web site is down right now" euphemisms). This downtime was only one of many computer annoyances on this trip, many self-inflicted. I didn't get around to printing any maps for the geocaches we hoped to do, and trying to get PDF maps from our laptop onto either of our Treos was an exercise in futility.
The other computer issue was not getting around to making mix CDs for listening to in the car. With over six hours of driving between LA, Palm Springs, and San Diego, we didn't want to rely on purely local stations. We had previously used a device that would play our iPods through the car stereo, but found them troublesome, especially in highly-populated areas where it is nearly impossible to find an open frequency. So Ziggy asked me to burn some CDs of songs, but I didn't get around to it. We ended up getting some blank CDs from Amy and Gary, and then trying to figure out how to either burn playlists directly from our iPods, or copy music from the iPod to the laptop first, something that Apple intentionally makes difficult. I found a command in iTunes that copied all purchased music, but this only got a couple hundred tracks and included a lot of Monk and Law and Order TV shows I'd already watched. Eventually I found a free program called Senuti which did the trick, and with a very nice iTunes-like interface to boot. But a little more preparation would have saved a lot of hassle...