All Wet

At first I thought the sound I was hearing was from my neighbor’s predawn sprinklers working a little overtime, but you can bet I was surprised to find the rare and far more natural form of irrigation at work when I got up this morning. Rain? I haven’t been an ardent follower of the local …

Making A List

Things I Wanna Do This Weekend (and probably will): Bike up to the Hollywood nunnery and get a loaf of pumpkin bread (thanks for the reminder Militant!) Begin my Christmas shopping Clean the bike (and change the slow-leaking rear innertube) Take Susan to dinner at that new El Caserio restaurant on Silver Lake Boulevard north …

For The Birds

I reconnected one of the webcams and pointed at the birdbath outside since it’s finally been getting some visits from the locals. Obviously it’s likely to be more miss than hit as to whether you’ll see a bird in the static images that are served up, so I also archived all the pix captured into …

Technorati Blog Claim In Progress

Technorati Profile Nothing to see here folks. Just following my blogbuddy Jo Gillis’ lead and going through the motions of doing something I shoulda done years ago: making my blog visible to the spideys of Technorati. Move along.

For The Love Of Shadow

Shadow’s present affliction is a mild blow, but a blow nonetheless — and one that resonates. She’s improved, which is good. But she’s old, which is what it is. Shadow came into my life as a handful of pup when I found her abandoned at Lake Balboa in the Sepulveda basin on Labor Day, 1994. …

Within Reach

Having not biked an inch while traveling this past week and also having amply stockpiled moooore than enough calories before, during and after this Thanksgiving, I’m opting to make this back-t0-work week a full bike-to-work one in part so that I can burn some of this excess fuel  as well as enter the final month …