Archive for March, 2006
Friday, March 10th, 2006
No Speed Racer No!
Coming home from mom’s in Burbank yesterday I took the standard route home: Golden State Freeway to Fletcher to Silver Lake Boulevard. After making the right onto the last thoroughfare and getting up to the reservoir, I find in my rearview mirror from out of nowhere a spiffy new champagne-colored sports sedan right on my [...]
4 Comments » - Posted in idiots by Will
Thursday, March 9th, 2006
A Visit With Mom
Went over to mother’s pad today to help her move a piece of furniture and go through a stack of old albums of my deceased stepfather’s that she thought I might be interested in bringing home. There was some cool stuff. Old oldies of “Fats” Waller and Louie Armstrong and Jimmy Durante and Earl [...]
1 Comment » - Posted in nostalgia by Will
Wednesday, March 8th, 2006
Long Day
I’ll keep it simple… mostly. With the new streamlined computer came the need to streamline the workspace. In a nutshell, that meant losing not only the old eMac, but the PowerMac 7600 that I kept around just for old time’s sake. That also meant getting rid of the improvised desk that was basically a slab [...]
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Tuesday, March 7th, 2006
It Was Inevitable
So you may have slogged through my nervous breakdown post last week in which I went to Fry’s Electronics store in Burbank and left with a hard drive and the voice of Steve Jobs in my head, all but doomed to get me some iMac goodness because my nearly four-year-old eMac is, well, just a [...]
2 Comments » - Posted in computers by Will
Monday, March 6th, 2006
My Baloney Has A First Name, It’s O-S-C-A-R
Not that I have anything new to add to all the chatter about last night’s Academy Awards, but I don’t know if it could’ve been any more boring.
My main reason for watching — Jon Stewart — was an abject disappointment. Not even a third of the way through his opening monologue I knew we were [...]
5 Comments » - Posted in movies by Will
Sunday, March 5th, 2006
Johnny Cash Was My Greatest Teacher
Susan and I watched Walk The Line last night. We both enjoyed it — especially the performances of Joaquin Phoenix and Reese Witherspoon — but with this movie coming out a year after the similarly plot-pointed biopic on Ray Charles in 2004, we both couldn’t help but wonder what legendary musician’s film will be rolled [...]
1 Comment » - Posted in movies, music by Will
Sunday, March 5th, 2006
The Countdown Continues
I broke ranks with myself this morning and stepped on the scale. I thought I’d converted myself to weighing-in only every two weeks, but the impulsive side of me staged a coup.
While I’d considered it during the week, I’d been hesitant to do so, in part because I hadn’t included any large-scale exercise efforts. Sure, [...]
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Saturday, March 4th, 2006
Here’s To Reaching New Heights
Susan and I made half a day of it today walking around the neighborhood. We had spied a brief in the Home section in Thursday’s L.A. Times on the L.A. Conservancy’s monthly Angelino Heights walking tour taking place today and I was lucky enough to nab the last two available spots when I called yesterday [...]
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Friday, March 3rd, 2006
A Trip To Fry’s
I sat down today to tackle the long put-off project of our taxes this afternoon. Susan’s stoically volunteered to let me have a go with TurboTax, which I’ve been using since like 1995, but I’ve been hesitant to dive in because her situation as a homeowner is a lot more complex than mine.
But it certainly [...]
2 Comments » - Posted in computers by Will
Thursday, March 2nd, 2006
Triumph Of The Pants
I’ll spare you any photographic evidence because I’m a loooooooong way from pointing a camera anywhere near my midsection. But today I did it. I tried them on. I call them “The Khakis.”
Anyone who’s done the diet thing or experienced a weight gain of any significance can count on that seminal day when they come [...]
