Archive for July, 2006
Monday, July 31st, 2006
The Runaround Yields Five Times Around
Stewing from various trivialities among them getting the brush off from a person I’m profiling for a feature — that’s due Thursday! — I hopped onto the bike and expended some pent-up frustro by working up a goodly sweat riding five times around the Silver Lake Reservoir, arriving back home 56 minutes after I started. [...]
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Saturday, July 29th, 2006
And Then There Were Three Two
Susan and I welcomed a charming young lady over to the house who was interested in adopting a pup, and the end result is that we were so impressed with her heart and willingness to commit that the one we called “Squeaker” has gone off to have a new and wonderful home and life with [...]
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Saturday, July 29th, 2006
Picture This
As I get set to go for a bike ride after this post with plans to be back by mid-afternoon to meet with the first of a couple prospective pup adopters, I’ve been scrolling through the images from our roadtrip vacation and I got the urge to post a couple/three from our Yellowstone excursion for [...]
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Friday, July 28th, 2006
MTA Gold Line 1, Best Laid Plans 0
Well it looked good on paper. It worked, in theory. But actualizing a weekly evening bike ride utilizing the MTA to get us to Pasadena for a cruise back downtown? That’s a rail line of a different color.
It started out well enough with the seven of us getting a timely jump for the three [...]
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Wednesday, July 26th, 2006
Of Stupid Signs & Idiot Drivers
With the cancellation of this evening’s group river ride because of lack of a quorum, I filled up my hydration pack and saddled up to go get me a lot of sweat from my beloved Griffith Park Loop ride, roughly 18 miles of varied terrain that goes from urban to riparian to rural and back [...]
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Tuesday, July 25th, 2006
Tuesday Morning Bicycle Club
At the IAAL•MAF’s regular weekly ride around the Silver Lake Reservoir, I paused on the westside of the water to snap this inaugural image with my new Olympus Stylus 710:
[large version here]
And yes, at 6:28 a.m. it was already hot.
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Monday, July 24th, 2006
Surprise Surprize!
Cross-posted from Blogging.la
So I’m all set to brave the heat and the madding crowds of Costco just now and I bust out the front door to find a DHL box on the steps. At first I figure it’s something for my wife since I certainly wasn’t expecting any deliveries, but when I pick it [...]
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Monday, July 24th, 2006
The Ghost Of Christopher Reeve
Susan and I went to the Grove yesterday for a heat-beating matinee. Though we arrived in time for the 1:05 p.m. showing of Cars, we still opted for 1:25 p.m. screening of Superman Returns because even if it sucked it would pay dividends in terms of its near three-hour running time allowing us such extended [...]
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Sunday, July 23rd, 2006
Gulls At The Pier
On our way off the Santa Monica Pier Saturday we came across a dude who looked like he’d gotten some experience feeding Cheetos to the gulls. He’d profer a snack in his fingertips and the gulls such as these two that would hover above him, riding the onshore breezes until he’d relent and toss it [...]
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Sunday, July 23rd, 2006
Re Jected!
The salient points are this: before my wife and I embarked on our trip to Africa this time last year, my friend told her neighbor about our journey and the neighbor, an editor for the L.A. Times, got in touch with me informally to see if I’d be interested in documenting the Rwandan portion of [...]
