Archive for January, 2006
Tuesday, January 24th, 2006
…But I Get Up Again
So I put on a tie and got myself down to the Ronald Reagan state building at 300 S. Spring Street in time for my 8:15 a.m. hearing to appeal the Employment Development Department’s categorical denial of my unemployment benefits. As I said yesterday, I felt the opportunity to elaborate my side could bring needed [...]
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Monday, January 23rd, 2006
Two Things…
First up: I finally — finally! — finished and filed the story on gorilla trekking in Rwanda that I’ve been working on for months. And by “working on” I mean “dicking around with so frustratingly.” Being my own worst critic, I am not at all satisfied with it. It’s waaaaaaay long and suffers from a [...]
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Sunday, January 22nd, 2006
Score Four!
My quest to lose 30 pounds by July 1 took a very positive step forward with my weekly weigh-in this morning. I lost three pounds this week bringing my two-week total to four and my weight to 256.
I’ve decided to make my Fitday.com journal live so you can see all the details here.
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Saturday, January 21st, 2006
What Are The Odds…?
You can’t always get what you want, but sometimes you get what you need.”
So Susan and I decided to walk early this afternoon from our house in Silver Lake down Sunset Boulevard into Echo Park to an Asian market about 1.5 miles away to get some snow peas and any other stuff that might catch [...]
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Friday, January 20th, 2006
A Choice To Make
At last year’s L.A. Marathon in March I completed the 22.7-mile bike tour event then walked the 26.2-mile marathon itself — with absolutely no training, but a heck of a bunch of resolve.
A phonecam photo set of marathon pix can be found here.
The bike tour is a piece of cake by itself. I’ve been doing [...]
1 Comment » - Posted in biking, los angeles, outdoors by Will
Thursday, January 19th, 2006
Leaner Times Ahead
Two Decembers ago, just before 2005 landed, I stepped on a scale and whopped out at 260. I’d been in that neighborhood weight for the better part of a year, having climbed there after peaking at 229 following the conclusion of the 475-mile bike ride I did from San Francisco to Santa Clarita in October [...]
2 Comments » - Posted in health, reality by Will
Wednesday, January 18th, 2006
Wild Wild West*
*Cross-posted from Blogging.la
It’s not every day here in Southern California you get to bag a wild lion from behind a 9mm pistol in the comfort of your own backyard, but that’s what an Orange County resident did yesterday morning when he confronted a mountain lion that had ventured from the adjacent Cleveland National Forest onto [...]
1 Comment » - Posted in animals, disgraceful, unfathomable by Will
Tuesday, January 17th, 2006
Remembering To Forget Or Forgetting To Remember?
On the heels of forgetting for like the third straight year that it was my good friend Cybele’s birthday (this after spending the afternoon with her whale watching!), it just dawned on me while looking at the calendar that it’s the 12th anniversary of the Northridge Quake!
I just posted at Blogging.la that in the years [...]
1 Comment » - Posted in history by Will
Monday, January 16th, 2006
No Fluking Way!
In honor of my friend Cybele’s birthday (which I forgot AGAIN until she reminded me on the way back home), I accompanied her down to Redondo Beach and ventured forth for a three-hour whale watching tour that was spectacular. We tailed a lone Pacific gray and were rewarded with multiple surfacings, then wandered around an [...]
2 Comments » - Posted in animals, outdoors by Will
Sunday, January 15th, 2006
Scenes of the Crimes
What a gorgeous day today. Blustery and not very warm, but with the rains of yesterday having blown through, L.A. was left with one of the most crystal clear days I’ve seen in a long, long time.
Susan and I spent this wonderful day chasing ghosts. Let me rephrase that: Susan indulged my fascination with the [...]
