WIFI: Panera Bread near LAX

Wednesday, July 21, 2004, at 02:55AM

By Eric Richardson

Life should get a little back to normal now. I just dropped my mom off at the airport after a fun 5-day visit, and now I'm sitting at the Panera Bread near LAX. WIFI connectivity is great and worked right away. The store has a lack of power for the most part, but there's a seat I'm eying that may well even fill that need too. Not that big of a deal, though, as the plan is to work here for a few hours and then head right down the coast to Manhattan Beach for a few of the peak sun hours.

All in all a great place to hang out for a while if you ever find yourself near LAX in the morning hours (South Bay Galleria and its Chick-fil-A would be my choice once you hit lunch).

Eric Richardson lives in Atlanta, Georgia, where he works on payments infrastructure for Cash App.

Past lives involved streaming audio for Southern California Public Radio, running a hyperlocal news site for Downtown Los Angeles, working on custom mapping code, and writing Perl at the Jet Propulsion Labratory.

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