Archive for November, 2007
Tuesday, November 20th, 2007
On The Road Again… And Again
For Susan and I this month has historically become a pretty solid time of travel. Our first November together back in 2004 when I was a docent for the L.A. Zoo I was thrilled to be selected to be part of the volunteer crew that got to spend three days on a remote part of [...]
3 Comments » - Posted in travel by Will
Monday, November 19th, 2007
Somebody Stop Me!
What the hell am I thinking!? I do a 15-mile walk across Pico Boulevard from downtown to the beach on Saturday (plus about four more getting to the walk’s start and to the bus from the walk’s end)and this morning sore as heck not only am I biking into work but then afterward I’ll be [...]
3 Comments » - Posted in mischief by Will
Saturday, November 17th, 2007
In The Crease
For as inopportune and imperfect (and avoidable) a blunder as it was mangling my right foot yesterday morning and throwing into doubt my ability to fully participate in today’s Great L.A. Walk, last night’s surprise spill on my bike was the exact opposite. As spills go, it couldn’t have gone better. And certainly could’ve [...]
9 Comments » - Posted in biking by Will
Friday, November 16th, 2007
Ten Point Six Per Diem
Sufferers of my deathless postings about my urban bicyclizings, sorry: here’s my next one.
At the end of bike business today, with a roundtrip work commute that included a side venture up to The Grove’s Apple Store (to pick up a replacement mouse for the one I broke trying to fix the little roller bally thing [...]
No Comments » - Posted in biking by Will
Friday, November 16th, 2007
I’ll Work It Out On The Bike Ride In
A minor comedy of errors this morning. I get up and go out into the backyard to make sure the fog bank isn’t smoke from a fire and notice that a small potted kangaroo paw plant I’d been successfully attempting to nurse back to health this last couple months had suffered a second [...]
3 Comments » - Posted in slice of life by Will
Thursday, November 15th, 2007
Thanks, ABC/ESPN
Caution: sports post ahead.
The last few Mondays have been weird in that I am no longer found on the couch in front of the TV watching the duration of Monday Night Football. That may seem like no big deal, but I’m talking about a show that’s easily been on of my favorite never-miss television programs [...]
No Comments » - Posted in rants, sports by Will
Thursday, November 15th, 2007
Splitting The Grid
Here I am above splitting the gridlocked lanes northbound on Vermont approaching 7th Street. The rest of my impromptu “20-Picture Project” is here on Flickr (including a WTF photo of the remains of a relatively large snake found on Jefferson).
But earlier I found what may be my new favorite crosstown street for my commute… at [...]
1 Comment » - Posted in biking by Will
Wednesday, November 14th, 2007
The “Coyote Problem”
Agh, us faultless “entitled” humans. Practically every day I’m shown another example of how we think we do own the planet. This time it was on a rather small scale via an alert to residents of the next monthly Silver Lake Improvement Association gathering later this week.
As highlighted above, one of the items to be [...]
4 Comments » - Posted in animals, idiots, nature, updated by Will
Sunday, November 11th, 2007
Wow. Just. Wow.
You’re gonna wanna click the above
Eureka Dunes panorama thumbnail
First off props to my beloved Susan because I gotta say it takes a special woman who says “hell yeah!” when I tell her that I want to drive out to the middle of nowhere in the middle of the night with our two dogs and [...]
3 Comments » - Posted in adventure, travel, updated by Will
Friday, November 9th, 2007
Gonna Have A Sand Blast
This has been a pretty hectic couple weeks at work and it’s been a bit of a scramble at home, too, what with Susan traveling and us falling behind in finding a petsitter while we’ll be in South Carolina for Thanksgiving. Though our go-to sitter was booked, she referred us to a wonderful gal who [...]
