Archive for January, 2007
Wednesday, January 31st, 2007
Morning Snap: What, Me Guilty!?
This is Ranger’s “I’ll be good from now on” face, which is pretty much interchangeable with her “I didn’t do nuthin’” face and her “I swear the cats started it” face (note the blur of the wagging tail):
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2 Comments » - Posted in morning snap, animals by Will
Tuesday, January 30th, 2007
Oh It’s Serious Now
Not only did I just send out a rambling email updating the handful of interested individuals (to varying degrees) in joining me for all or part of my Sunset Boulevard walk February 10, but I whipped up a commemorative t-shirt, too:
No Comments » - Posted in health, clothing, hiking by Will
Monday, January 29th, 2007
Hillary-ous
Is the former first lady, current senator from New York and recently announced presidental candidate so ashamed of her last name that she won’t even put it on her campaign graphics? Is there actual concern among her managers that drawing attention to “Clinton” might be detrimental to her chances. Did she or they stop to […]
No Comments » - Posted in politics by Will
Monday, January 29th, 2007
Baby I’m Your Handyman
So this weekend Susan searched for and found a handyman from Angie’s List and shot him an email with a list of around-the-house projects she’d compiled. There’s the leaky fixtures in her bathroom and the plaster that’s peeling away above the tile of the bathtub surround. There’s more plaster and paint peeling in the living […]
4 Comments » - Posted in jobs by Will
Sunday, January 28th, 2007
Ben There
For the first time in years I tuned in this morning to what had once been a television never-miss: “CBS Sunday Morning” with Charles Osgood. I’d been a fan since deep into its days hosted by the great Charles Kuralt. If I wasn’t quite sure why I had strayed away and for so long […]
No Comments » - Posted in television, politics by Will
Sunday, January 28th, 2007
So Busted
Most humans have no idea how severely the dog community at-large frowns upon illicit catfood use. I’ve run interventions with Ranger about this in the past and though she’s repeatedly indicated that she’s got her habit under control, I warned her that if she persisted I’d be forced to post shameful evidence of her addiction.
A […]
2 Comments » - Posted in animals by Will
Saturday, January 27th, 2007
Live-Blogging The Descent Into Madness & Pain, Part II
If you’ve been around me and/or this blog for a bit you might remember that when I did both the bike tour and the marathon in 2005 (with absolutely zero training and 50 pounds heavier than I am now) I chronicled the painfully long day via phonecam snaps and audio blog posts. If you weren’t […]
No Comments » - Posted in sports by Will
Friday, January 26th, 2007
Return Of The PupCam
I’m not sure how long I’ll keep it live, but in the aftermath of my successful failure in wi-fi’d webcam tagger surveillance earlier this week, I have resurrected the “pupcam” that we had in the kitchen after coming back from vacation last summer with the four dogs we rescued in Utah. Only this time the […]
No Comments » - Posted in animals, internet by Will
Friday, January 26th, 2007
Aloe There
Sometime last year Susan did some thinning of the planter box by the porch steps and out went a collection of stunted, ingrown aloe plants that weren’t dead but weren’t thriving either. So I picked the sturdiest looking one of the bunch and plunked it down into a hole I dug in the backyard… an […]
No Comments » - Posted in backyarchaeology by Will
Friday, January 26th, 2007
Up In Smoke
Perusing the inside of today’s Times I found this article about how smoking addiction can sometimes just disappear. The piece goes on to document how a USC/University of Iowa study linked injuries sustained to a specific area of the brain called the insula (which apparently holds sway over urges such as smoking) with the immediate […]
