Archive for October, 2007
Wednesday, October 31st, 2007
Made Good
If you’ve read my rantings with any relative regularity you probably know that I am infinitely capable of tossing out ultimatums with reckless sincere abandon and then immediately or shortly thereafter fail to follow through.
Such was the case yesterday after getting stuck in the residual traffic due to the fatal accident nearby on the 405 […]
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Tuesday, October 30th, 2007
As Gawd’z Me Witness…
I left home in my truck this morning at 8:03 a.m. All was going as smoothly as could be expected, with me getting down to Commonwealth and Wilshire in six minutes and passing Crenshaw and Jefferson about 20 minutes after that. If all went well from there I would’ve been to work in another 15 […]
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Monday, October 29th, 2007
Nightvision
It escaped many, but not me… no matter how minor it may be. See typically and for as long as I can remember Daylight Saving Time has ended the weekend of or before Halloween. That’s right, whoever those state or federal powers might be decreed that in the year 2007, the DST period would not […]
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Saturday, October 27th, 2007
Boo Thousand Seven
I’m still not 100 percent, but taking it easy today definitely put be back into the low 80s — healthy and ambulatory enough to slather some makeup on my mug and join my wife in the annual Dia De Los Muertos festival at Hollywood Forever, and it was by far my favorite of the previous […]
2 Comments » - Posted in adventure by Will
Friday, October 26th, 2007
Morning Snap: The Big Cheese
The smoke-filtered harvest moon as seen from Silver Lake this morning just before 7 a.m. (click to doublify):
Shine on, baby!
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Wednesday, October 24th, 2007
I Be Illin’
So last week I was all “gung-ho: get your flu shot on,” and subsequently walked that walk Wednesday. As is a risk of getting innoculated against such things there is the chance one might experience side effects such as a low-grade fever and such. If they manifest they usually dissipate in 24 - 48 hours.
Mine […]
5 Comments » - Posted in health by Will
Tuesday, October 23rd, 2007
That’s “Professional Amateur Videographer” To You
You might remember back during the heatwave that baked L.A. at the end of August/beginning of September on a half-assed whim I risked my aged laptop and digital camera putting them up on the roof of the house under the full day’s unrelenting sun and triple digit temps and came away with a pretty cool […]
3 Comments » - Posted in jobs by Will
Tuesday, October 23rd, 2007
DWP & LaBonge To Festival of Lights Cyclists: LOSERS!
I’ve been stewing over this since reading it in yesterday’s L.A. Times. Between the latter part of November and the end of December every year the DWP’s Festival of Lights shines in Griffith Park in all its kitschy kooky glory. And every year the traffic congestion and emissions spew resulting from people clogging neighboring streets […]
7 Comments » - Posted in updated, biking by Will
Monday, October 22nd, 2007
A Lotta Hot Air
In my history as a native, I can’t recall a Santa Ana winds event in the fire season where it so decidedly blew like crazy everywhere except where I am. And the results are devestating: 15,000 acres burned in the Agua Dulce fire; 12,000 in Castaic 4,00o in East Orange County, 1,200 in Malibu.
In the […]
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Saturday, October 20th, 2007
Gettin’ Our Halloween On
After stopping at a decidedly unfulfilling Halloween store on San Fernando Boulevard, Susan and I beat a path to Stats in Pasadena where we proceeded to spend waaaaaaay too much money on ghouls and goblins and tombstones and strobe lights and stuff to decorate the front yard with this October 31st.
This fiendish fellow’s my favorite:
After […]
