I joined the downtown YMCA back in 2003 primarily because as healthclubs go, it’s really one of the best — not just because of its variety of programs or state-of-the-art equipment, but also because being in the heart of downtown it attracts a much more no-nonsense clientele. It isn’t some posing parlor meatmarket like most …
This morning will be the first since October 5 that I’ve been on my bike. Year to date there’ve been only two spans of bikelessness in that amount or longer. The first was the rather inauspicious beginning from January 1-11 when I didn’t pedal an inch, and the second was from May 5 – 27 …
Like most bullshit automobile adornment trends — the pissing Calvin, “Baby On Board” signage, bumper stickers that petulantly demand I accept that Jesus Is God while simultaneously commanding that I Read The Bible — I don’t know where and when they start. All I know is that they can never fade away fast enough to …
While I was in Orlando last week, I was provided with a company laptop to use. It was a Hell Dell Latitude, which more appropriately or subliminally should be called L’attitude –French for “the attitude” — because one crucial and malignant aspect of it was continually and predominately a freakin’ pain in the ass and …
My earlier post this morning described the uneventfulness of the flight. That’s not to say the wait at the gate went as smoothly. I guess I temporarily blocked it perhaps as a sanity-saving measure, but fellow contributer Cutter’s post this morning about cellphonetards brought the recollection back in full technicolor: While waiting for my L.A. …
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Very much the pleasant flight home last night and a nice surprise to find it raining when the plane landed at 9:35 p.m. While shuttling from the airport back to my truck parked out by the Crowne Plaza Hotel I figured it was just localized sprinkles, but it kept up pretty much all the way …
For want of a substantive post while I’m still here in Orlando, all I have for you is some window-dwelling examples of the area’s entomology, specifically a wasp and a jumping spider (my favorite of all spiders!) that put it on dah glass outside my hotel room 11 stories off the deck for awhile yesterday …