Figures…

The air conditioning in the office is fixed, so it’s no longer a sauna.
The electricity in my office is working, so I’m no longer stuck in the server room.

Oh, Even Better

So the morning after the events of my last post, I’m chatting with my neighbor. She tells me that, even though she sleeps on the opposite side of her house from where our properties abut, she also thought at first that it was her door the cops were knocking banging on.
She had gotten up [...]

How Your Neighbors Can Irritate Without Even Being Home

It’s bad enough that on-and-off for the past few months I’ve had to listen to my neighbor’s going at it, sometimes night after night. Arguing, at times screaming at each other, more than once in the middle of the night.
The walls in my place, being lathe-and-plaster, are about as soundproof as a sheet of paper. [...]

Line, Please?

Hiking on the trail last Sunday up to Santa Ynez Waterfall, I passed by a couple of young (around my age) women working their way down the canyon. Having taken a wrong turn a moment before, they joked that they were off exploring the “scenic” route.
I joked in return that I’d often been on [...]

Jones!

(What, you haven’t read the other new post below? No, no go read that first. Then come back here. Oh, and this was written at 2:39 AM, so go easy on me, ‘k?)

HIKE: Santa Ynez Waterfall

(First a bit of background; hike info further down)
I can’t be sure, but the Santa Ynez Waterfall hike, may very well have been the first hike I ever did after moving to the LA area. Or maybe the second.

Protected: Oh, Maaaaaan

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Uh, Do You Have To Do That Here?

So there I am today, in the gym, all sweaty from my treadmill run. (I know, ladies: makes you all hot & bothered, right? Ever notice celebrities don’t sweat, by the way? Seriously, I saw some picture of Matthew Machaungueney (however ya spell it) out running and his skin was dry as a [...]

Back To Basics

Not too surprisingly, I woke up this morning to an already-warm house, and an already sore back. *sigh*
I crawled (carefully, I might add) from bed, fixed breakfast, and settled in to watch CBS Sunday Morning, which is sort of like the Sunday paper for those of us too lazy on a Sunday to even, [...]

Bah, Humbug

As nice as it is to think that IT is all about sitting behind a desk all day, controlling the network like a god with little more than effortless taps on the keyboard, it can be, at times, a great deal more physically active.
Workstations need to be moved, equipment switched out, new equipment arrives and [...]