Archive for February, 2006
Monday, February 6th, 2006
Back Together Again
I’m not really a fan of jigsaw puzzles. I’ve done several in my time, but I don’t get all goosebumply at the thought of putting together pieces of anything. So that can’t explain why I dropped everything on Saturday after Susan presented me with a box full of the shattered remains of two dishes that [...]
1 Comment » - Posted in tidbits by Will
Monday, February 6th, 2006
The Skies Of Los Angeles Are Buuuuurrrrrning
The dawning day painted the air an eerie orange, but I didn’t know why until I ventured outside with Shadow for our walk and I found an ominous smoke cloud hovering over Silver Lake and its surroundings.
(larger version and a couple more images found here)
From a vantage point up on Micheltorena I snapped a few [...]
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Monday, February 6th, 2006
On This The Day After: Super Bowl XL
It’s the rare Super Bowl that never fails to disappoint, and yesterday’s was not one of them. Though I’ve been a life-long fan of the Steelers, I aligned with the Seahawks for two reasons: 1) with everything I read and heard Seattle apparently had no chance to win and 2) Shaun Alexander, one of the [...]
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Sunday, February 5th, 2006
Setback
If it’s Sunday, it’s weigh-in day and I met the first proof this ain’t going to be a nice and steady downhill ride. The scale showed me that I actually gained back a pound, putting me at 252.
Very disappointing considering my caloric intake was very well monitored this past week. But I’m not going to [...]
4 Comments » - Posted in health by Will
Saturday, February 4th, 2006
Three Amigos
It’s a given that on the weekends when we let the cats out you can usually find one — maybe two — crashed comfortably on the lounge in the backyard, but rare is it that three show up (from left: Pepper, Pumpkin and Jiggy). Click image to biggify the cuteness.
No Comments » - Posted in animals, outdoors, tidbits by Will
Saturday, February 4th, 2006
Miles To Go Before I Sleep
So I bought this scythe/chopper thingy at the hardware store yesterday and spent a nice hour of the afternoon in the backyard working off some of the Hershey’s Kisses I’d indulged in earlier in the day. The thing is shape something like a golf club so I was swinging away at the overgrowing grass and [...]
2 Comments » - Posted in biking by Will
Friday, February 3rd, 2006
Gimme Kissee!
OK, so I blew it today, which is a negative way of saying I gave into an urge. At the market today shopping for groceries I tossed an 11-ounce bag of the new peanut butter-filled Hershey’s kisses into the cart and when I got home and had a healthy lunch of soup and sardines, I [...]
3 Comments » - Posted in food, health by Will
Thursday, February 2nd, 2006
Look Over There… Where?
I ended up spending so much time today posting one helluva rambler over at Blogging.la in the wake of the January 31 murder down the street — the fifth shooting death in the neighborhood in some 16 months — that I don’t have any steam left to craft any crap here. And rather than crosspost [...]
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Wednesday, February 1st, 2006
You’re Excused
Well at least I got a weekly bus pass out of it. But certainly no trial, which is what I wanted.
I boarded the No. 201 bus, which dropped me three blocks away from my destination at the Civil Central West Courthouse at Sixth and Commonwealth where I arrived 30 minutes ahead of my appointed time, [...]
3 Comments » - Posted in civics, los angeles by Will
Wednesday, February 1st, 2006
Throw This One Back
I was listening to the post State of the Union commentary on CBS hoping to get the distaste of Duhbya’s speech out of my head, but instead tuned it out after one of the talking heads issued a different take on a key moment during the proceedings.
For me, the highlight of the hour-long remarks came [...]
