Friday Sillyness

Tonight I was going to write a long post, another rant diatribe well-thought-out-missive on something else in my life that’s bugging me right now.
Then I thought about it a little and realized that most of my readers will be seeing this post on Friday. And, seriously, who wants to read that kind of drivel [...]

Idiots To The Left Of Me, Idiots To The Right

(An awfully techie post; apologies…)
Last night I stayed late at work to swap out our DSL modem (I haven’t been able to convince management to go to T1…yet) for a newer, faster DSL modem. The ISP promised me in a phone call last night that, yes, we would have internet service (newer, faster, and [...]

Well, Hopefully…

“Well, hopefully you can find a nicer place to live someday.”
My Dad said that to me today. Again.

Biking and Distant Fires

(Written Saturday, posted Sunday…)
Today dawned sunny and warm, with a mild Santa Ana wind settling in. With the Parentage having booked out of town at five am, I took the opportunity to sleep in a bit.
Stepping outside into weather that was clearly headed towards the seventies (which, yes, is unseasonably warm for LA), I [...]

Loosening The Belt A Notch

The Parentals have just left, having played our last round of Rummikub.
The day has been filled with good food (turkey on the BBQ, mashed potatoes, stuffing, etc.), and finished off with a small slice of pumpkin pie with a really, truly, obscenely absurd amount of whipped cream on top.
The day was spent talking, cooking, playing [...]

Thanksgiving Already?

Wow, this year is just rolling by…
In a few short hours The Parentage will arrive in town for a brief, two day stay to celebrate Thanksgiving.
As such, I’ve spent the last couple of days cleaning my place. Not so much because I’m a slob, but because having one’s parents over is a spectacular excuse [...]

Please Tell Me It’s a Fluke

Usually at the gym I warm up on the treadmill. Jump on, run for a mile or two, then head over to hit the weights.
Tonight I’m on the treadmill, jogging along, when my knee starts hurting. Then I started getting a bit winded.
I glanced down at the display. I’d only been running [...]

Bumping Up The Life List

Learning how to scuba dive isn’t the absolute highest thing on my life-list, but it’s certainly there. But after seeing this advertisement headline in the latest print version of The Onion:
Confuse a fish!
Learn to Dive!
Well, the idea of dozens of fish, swimming around with “What. The. Hell.” looks on their faces [...]

HIKE: Sawmill Mountain

A few hikes in my repertoire are regulars: one’s that I do every year, without fail. The interesting thing about these hikes is that, while the location and time-of-year are the same, the hikes are always different.
This hike, some distance out from LA, is something I’ve always called my “Annual Fall Colors Hike” and [...]

A Test I Actually Enjoy

Fellow hiking blogger Homer-Dog did a post about the FreeRice website about a week ago, and I’m freely riffing on it because it’s a damn good idea.
Simply put: you go the website and take a multiple-choice vocabulary test. For every right answer you get, 10 grains of rice are donated to the U.N. World [...]