Archive for December, 2007
Monday, December 31st, 2007
It All Comes Together: 31 miles on Dec. 31 = 3100
Having been cut loose from work early this afternoon on this the last day of 2007, I tacked on a a downtown detour to the ride home that ended up totaling 31 miles on December 31st to finish at 3,100 for the year.
Three thousand one hundred and two point five miles to be exact.
Tomorrow we […]
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Sunday, December 30th, 2007
Frozen In Time
This doesn’t come close to being a find of any type of archaeological proportions, but in a city so often faulted for covering up its history, I can’t help but feeling somewhat similar to what I imagine a palentologist might feel discovering preserved footprints of some ancient creature.
In this case it’s the pawprints of some […]
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Thursday, December 27th, 2007
Resolutin’ Time
Yup, with five days left of 2007, it’s right about now when I start mulling what I’ll make happen in the new year. So here’s where I’m at, and it’s all about keeping it simple and specific — no “read at least 16 books” or “lose weight” or other such vague and general nonsense.
I will […]
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Thursday, December 27th, 2007
A Funny Thing Happened…
…On the way to the office today. Actually two — actually three, with the third one teaching me a valuable lesson.
1) In what may very well be a quintessential L.A. rite of passage (or at least a case of what-are-the-odds timing), I intersected with the downward trajectory of a falling palm frond (loosed from its […]
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Thursday, December 27th, 2007
Biking To Work Pays!
Sorry for the craptastic phonecam snap, but it’s all I have to work with in digitizing the check I received this morning in the amount of $61.32 for my October and November alternate-commute efforts as part of my building’s employee transportation incentive program. Doing something I enjoy and getting paid for it!? What […]
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Thursday, December 27th, 2007
Gallery of Backyarchaeology: Basement Pulley
Here’s a day-after-Christmas addition to the Gallery of Backyarchaeology: I’ve been going down into the basement for more than three years and it wasn’t until I was under there doing some organizing December 26 that I noticed this small pulley mechanism screwed into a floor beam in relative plain sight. Its rusted condition […]
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Wednesday, December 26th, 2007
Cruisin’ On A Christmas Afternoon
Santa brought my bay-bee a brand new shaft-driven velocipede so we took it out on the L.A. River Bikeway Christmas day for an inaugural spin before heading downtown for a matinee of “I Am Legend,” which was disappointing, but we made up for it by riding the Bonaventure Hotel’s elevator to the top floor […]
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Wednesday, December 26th, 2007
The Morning After
Walking to the kitchen to get the coffee started and begin contemplating my resolutions for the new year this early Christmas-Plus-One Day I found our stately tree framed in the foyer and couldn’t resist setting up this one-last-shot in the dark, a six-second exposure (click to quadruplify).
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Monday, December 24th, 2007
Gallery of Backyarchaeology
Well it ain’t as fancy as I’d been thinking of doing it, but it’s done. After these several years of writing about various finds excavated from the trove that is our backyard (such as the World War II-era German army helmet unearthed in 2006), I finally got all the crap together, set up […]
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Monday, December 24th, 2007
@ Peace
So not only did I do enough riding to put me past my revised annual goal (passing it somewhat appropriately in the bike lane on Riverside Drive by the Los Angeles Equestrian Center), but I also paid visits to IKEA, Supply Sergeant and OSH in Burbank before coming back through Griffith Park and over Los […]
