Quiet Thanksgiving

Perhaps I’m just getting older.  Or lazier.  Or, quite possibly, both.
Whatever the reason, as time goes by, I find myself doing less on the Thanksgiving Holiday, even while society at large seems to be pushing everything and everyone to rush around at a more and more frantic pace every year.

At The Beach, But Not Of The Beach

Yesterday, Sunday, I hauled the bike out and drove down to ride the beach trail.  The day was warm(ish), but pretty hazy.  Breezes were light, thankfully, which made for pretty comfortable riding.
By about noon, the high tide was coming in, with pretty large waves crashing against the shore.  It looked and sounded like a winter [...]

L.A.’s Short Attention Span Theater

The Station Fire, as I write tonight, is now about 91% contained.  The estimate for full containment has been pushed back, now, to this weekend.
What surprises me more than how long containment is taking is how quickly the fire was forgotten by the local media, even here in media-driven Los Angeles.  By the [...]

4th In Brief

This year’s 4th of July elicited some discussion amongst my friends, mostly circulating around the following:
“Uh, got any plans?”
“Nope.  You?”
“Nah.  We should go somewhere.”
“Yeah.”
“But where the hell can we go that isn’t going to be insanely crowded?”
Keep in mind, this conversation happened, off and on, over several weeks.  I guess we all felt a bit [...]

A Little Corporate Luv

(Finally commented on everyone’s comments on the last two posts.  Sorry for the delay.)
One of the things I miss about living in San Francisco is the corner grocery store. Any way you look at it, it’s just stupid to have to get in your car to pick up a half gallon of milk or a [...]

Nearly Perfect

It’s been a long day.  In fact, it’s been the longest day of the year.
Being the height of summer, and having no definitive plans for the day, I figured I’d go ahead and do the things I knew I’d like.
So, what makes for the gosh-darn-near-perfect summer day?

Room To Spare

I stopped at Trader Joe’s tonight.  I hadn’t been to this one in a few months; it’s closer to me, but there’s another on the way home from work that I’ve been favoring of late.  You know, that whole “combining errands” thing people always talk about.
Apparently, at some point in the past few months, they [...]

Weather Change

Looking out the windows this morning, I noticed the gray sky growing darker.
“June Gloom is bad enough,” I thought, “Does it have to get even darker?  So not fair.”
Then at one point, there was a flash in the office.  Not bright, sort of like a distant flash-bulb.

Well, Crap

(I may be repeating myself here, I really don’t remember.  Locals may want to skip this post, as they are already very familiar with the phenomenon…)
Here it comes again.  May gray.  June gloom.  Ugh.
Or, as I prefer to think of it, a little bit of hell thrown into daily living by the universe.

Get To Know Your EMT

It’s not often that I recommend something lengthy to read, and even less often that it’s something that touches on serious matters.
This article though, written my an EMT here in Los Angeles, I found to be absolutely riveting…