Archive for January, 2007
Friday, January 19th, 2007
Yeah Well, It Needed A Coat Anyway
Yesterday afternoon, when getting home from some errands with and for my mom, I found the side of the mailbox tagged in orange paint. I can’t be certain but the scribble looked to be “a pouch.” Maybe “4 ponch.” Hard to say.
The hmmmm part comes in because it certainly wasn’t there as I cleaned the [...]
3 Comments » - Posted in neighborhood by Will
Thursday, January 18th, 2007
Cruisin’
How’s this for a surprise… my wife gets home from work and tells me that as an appreciation for her upcoming 10th anniversary of loyal and dedicated and excellent service, her boss is sending her and her husband on an all-expenses-paid “Rivieras” cruise aboard the Regent Seven Seas Navigator in May that will start in [...]
3 Comments » - Posted in adventure, travel by Will
Thursday, January 18th, 2007
Have I Been Warned?
It’s a question you can’t help but ask when your wife calls you after she’s just walked out the front door to tell you she’s in her car in front of the garage she just pulled out of and when she remotely closed its door she found the disturbing results of vandals who at some [...]
3 Comments » - Posted in neighborhood by Will
Wednesday, January 17th, 2007
4:31 a.m.
Has it been 13 years since the Northridge Earthquake rocked my world?
No Comments » - Posted in flashback by Will
Tuesday, January 16th, 2007
Weight Loss Pays
How’s this for an odd job: See my wonderful wife Susan works for a company that does all sorts of presentations for trials and such. She hears of a lawyer representing a client paralyzed in an auto accident who is looking for a male between 6′ and 210 pounds and 6′4″ and 230 [...]
No Comments » - Posted in jobs, tidbits by Will
Monday, January 15th, 2007
Fact v. Fiction: The Thing With 24
So Keifer Sutherland’s Jack Bauer got going last night with the first of a two-part, four-hour premiere of the new season of “24,” and man am I glad Jack’s back in town. Sure, I know the program is just one big live-action comic book that can stretch the suspension of my disbelief well beyond its [...]
5 Comments » - Posted in television, updated by Will
Monday, January 15th, 2007
Morning Snap: Bedroom — 11:52 a.m.
Rare is it that all one, two, three, four of our cats congregate in such close proximity to one another (clockwise from bottom left is Pepper, Jiggy, Pumpkin, and Bink). But when they do and I can touch all of them at the same time such as in this case, I call it a “four [...]
1 Comment » - Posted in animals by Will
Monday, January 15th, 2007
Random Takes On TV Truck Commercials
Being as I’ve mostly been watching football mostly on the broadcast box this past couple weeks, I’ve been abnormally subjected to the flow of repetitive crapaganda from truck makers who want me to buy their stuff. A meaningless sampling of the most offensive marketing schemes:
1) Chevy’s fauxtriotic “This is your truck” TV campaign backed by [...]
No Comments » - Posted in ads, ramblings, television by Will
Sunday, January 14th, 2007
And Away I Go
Seeing as I have to average 167.5 miles a month to make this year’s target, I’m off to a bit of a slow start. But getting back in the saddle with Friday’s night c-c-c-cold 33.5-mile ride up through northeast L.A. to Pasadena’s Rose Bowl and back, I finally kicked off my resolution to bike 2,007 [...]
1 Comment » - Posted in biking, health by Will
Saturday, January 13th, 2007
Everyone, I’d Like You To Meet Ed
A few days ago you might recall I waxed apoplectic over an article in the Times that waxed apopleptic over the joys and necessities of spending upwards of $8,000 or more for a bicycle. Indeed as an off-the-rack and rebuild type of cyclist I dared to dismiss and demean that niche market of really rich [...]
