Archive for March, 2006
Friday, March 31st, 2006
Man I’m A Deviant
Since undertaking my weight loss regimen at the beginning of the new year, there’s one thing that’s a constant: my Sunday weigh-in. If it’s Sunday, it’s weigh day. Sure, there have been occasions where I’ve opted to skip the weekly ritual, but never have I cheated and deviated with the device on a different day.
Until […]
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Friday, March 31st, 2006
It’s Official: I’m A Character
Being that I’m a sucker for recognition, it was much to my pleasant surprise that I found some blogroll love from Matt Welch’s LA Times’ blog, where I’m listed under the Characters section in the esteemed company of the likes of Tony Pierce, Dave Navarro, Sean Bonner, COOP and more far worthier the links than […]
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Friday, March 31st, 2006
6,935 Days In The Valley
I spent 19 some-odd years living around the San Fernando Valley: Sherman Oaks, Van Nuys, Burbank, Glendale, Van Nuys again, Sherman Oaks again, Encino, then back to Sherman Oaks one more time before coming to Silver Lake in 2002.
The valley is what it is and I’m not inclined to bag on the place other than […]
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Thursday, March 30th, 2006
Veni Vedi Vented
OK, so I’d be lying if I said there was a finite list of things that piss me off. I can get riled up by a seemingly endless array of situations, responses, behaviors, plot points, reactions, et cetera. But in this day and age of the internuts, the one thing that really chaps my e-hide […]
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Wednesday, March 29th, 2006
That Time Of Year Again
This Friday will mark the commencement of what will be my third-annual “10 Rides In 30 Days” in the Verdugo Mountains north of Glendale. I can’t remember how I actually came to decide upon that exact number of rides in that specific number of days back in 2004, but I know it had something to […]
2 Comments » - Posted in biking, outdoors by Will
Tuesday, March 28th, 2006
Cap & Me
Caspar Weinberger died today. When we met it was a far different time in this country. 1985. December. I was about halfway through a solo train trip around the country. I’d come coach on Amtrak from L.A. through the southwest and Texas for a whirlwind overnight layover in New Orleans. Then it was into Alabama […]
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Monday, March 27th, 2006
Walking In L.A.
What with the dog walk and walking from and to the auto mechanic I caught a lot of things on foot today and blogged about ‘em all on Blogging.la: the student protests while Shadow and I strolled along Sunset, a typo worth a chuckle on the way home from the mechanic’s, and a new work […]
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Sunday, March 26th, 2006
Failure Is An Option
Sometimes in matters of physical challenges you hit the wall. Sometimes the wall hits you. The latter was such the case this morning when I arrived for the annual Fargo Street Hill Climb. After signing up, I ended up standing around for more than an hour watching far better conditioned and determined cyclists tackle the […]
2 Comments » - Posted in biking by Will
Sunday, March 26th, 2006
Steady As We Go
I was going to skip this Sunday’s regularly scheduled weigh-in because last week’s was done directly after I got home from the Acura LA Bike Tour and the two-pound loss to 232 that I registered was more like short-term water loss from the 30-miles I rode and not actual weight loss. Thus, I was going […]
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Saturday, March 25th, 2006
Zen And The Art Of Bicycle Maintenance
Tomorrow I’m going to give the annual Fargo Street Hill Climb a try for the first time. I’ve known about it since the late ’80s when it was called the Fargo Street Turkey Shoot, but I never felt compelled to participate in the bike ride up one of the steepest streets in Los Angeles until […]
