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 [...]

Stormy Skies

An early season storm pulled into the LA region today.  It should dump rain tonight and tomorrow.  I, for one, couldn’t be happier about it.
(Well, except for the fact that LAites have, yet again, forgotten how to drive in the rain.  Of course, they lose that knowledge in between seasons storm systems clouds raindrops, so [...]

As Only Old Friendships Can

(I’m actually hesitant to post this.  Mainly because I think the writing sucks.  *sigh*)
I’ve been feeling oddly uninspired to write lately, and I don’t know why.
Maybe it’s just writers block, or this feeling of minor melancholy that’s descended on me for the last week or so.
Or maybe it’s just that my life seems pretty damn [...]

Oh, Yeah, I’ve Got A Blog

Oh, hey, how ya ‘doin?
Yeah, I’ve got this blog here, see, but seems I’ve been ignoring for the past few days, haven’t I?
Terribly rude of me.
I suppose sometimes the mind just demands one take a break from certain mental activities.  Whether I’d planned it or not seems not to matter.

Insomniac (Or: Can’t Sleep, Clowns Will Eat Me*)

(Fans of Dingo, read this post!) (*Simpsons reference for da geeks. )
I can’t decide which is worse: the fact that I’m having trouble getting to sleep lately, or the fact that there’s no damn good reason why.  Well, no apparent reason, at least.
I’m writing this on my lunch hour at work, currently trying [...]

A Familiar Trail

(Written mostly in my head and on a scrap of paper in my pocket.  *shrug*  It’s an experiment.)
So, it’s Sunday morning, and I’m relaxing on the couch watching the Sunday Paper for Lazy People: CBS Sunday Morning.
Still, I think I need to go hiking.  It’s been a couple of weeks, and I suppose my feet [...]

Protected: Forty-Two Pounds Of Honesty

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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 [...]

Dichotomy

I’m sure that this post will make everyone say that I’m entirely too self-analytical.  Or, at the very least, that I think too much.
There’s been a shift in my thinking of late.  Not so much in what I’m thinking about, but how I’m thinking about things.  It’s as though my thoughts on pretty much any [...]