Yesterday vs Today

Here's the view from my hotel window. The yellow glow is a reflection of the lamp in the room, but you can see it was cold and snowy.

And now today... those are the Sierra Nevada Mountains in the distance -- and this is where the Donner Party got stuck. The local news has two weather reports -- in the mountains, where they got two more feet of snow yesterday and in the valley (where I am, I think) where we got a few inches that have mostly melted.



I am in an "accessible" room which I love because of the walk in shower. The shower floor is level with the bathroom floor. I really get paranoid about falling -- Mostly hotels have no rugs and the tiles get slippery and there's nothing to hold onto except some rickety towel rack that I have no doubt would come flying out of the wall if I ever grabbed it. I also have the handheld shower at home and I am used to that. Here it is:

And finally, here's my new computer for traveling which I love. I am almost used to the smaller keyboard -- hey I typed that entire line without having to backspace... I put a business card on the keyboard so you can see how small it is. It's a Toshiba and cost $274 at BestBuy. I had to buy Office as well. But I love it as it weighs about as much as a medium size hardback book so it's great to carry around. I can do email and do Word documents, Excel, etc. which is really all I need when traveling. The only small challenge is I transferred some files from my office computer, but I forgot a few I kind of wish I had. All my email, old and saved, automatically is on this computer so that's good. The two cords are the power cord and then the mobile WiFi.