Archive for June, 2008
Monday, June 30th, 2008
Cha-Ching-A-Ling
Well, I’m glad I asked. Last week, something made me wonder where my bike-commute subsidy moola might be for the months of March/April and so I sent an email to the Howard Hughes Center’s transportation coordinator. Typically it arrives a month or so after logs are submitted, but here we were nearing the end of [...]
1 Comment » - Posted in biking, money by Will
Monday, June 30th, 2008
Buster’s Palace: Roof Is Go!
The early afternoon run to Home Depot Sunday was a success in procuring the materials I’d need to build the lid to cover the main part of the tortoise hutch begun and completed Saturday. By the time I got home it was hot and I wasn’t really planning on commencing construction, but with Susan [...]
2 Comments » - Posted in animals, backyarchaeology by Will
Saturday, June 28th, 2008
Buster’s Palace
It’s funny, when you think about the materials involved in putting together a 5′ x 5′ outdoor pen for our Russian tortoise Buster — four boards, four legs, slats, screening material and some brackets it seems like putting it all together would take hardly any time at all.
Four hours later, I finally was done — [...]
1 Comment » - Posted in animals, backyarchaeology by Will
Saturday, June 28th, 2008
Buster In Repose
Our Russian tortoise Buster, whom you may have seen recently in a far more active mode, likes to position herself in the late afternoons to catch the last of the day’s rays as the sun sets behind the Micheltorena Ridge, and only minds it a little bit when I encroach with my cam on such [...]
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Friday, June 27th, 2008
An Occasional Look At Favorite Shirts: Vote
Inaugural entry here: Leonardo
Back a few months after I got my Street Legal tee-shirts completed, my friend and sincere cyclista Mihai’s main squeeze Brigitte (also a dedicated rider) emailed me saying how much she’d like to buy a his ‘n hers set to surprise her beau for his upcoming birthday.
Buy? Down to the last few [...]
No Comments » - Posted in clothing by Will
Wednesday, June 25th, 2008
Crimestopper!
My guess is they were after the bike. Probably saw it on the porch from across the street, but couldn’t tell it was secured to the house with a cable lock and a Kryptonite u-lock.
I had only a minute or two earlier slid the deadbolt and shut off the front door entry light and the [...]
6 Comments » - Posted in crime by Will
Wednesday, June 25th, 2008
Buster: Return Of The Nom
Click here to see the best footage yet of Buster the Russian tortoise going full nom on her foodstuffs!
4 Comments » - Posted in animals, food by Will
Tuesday, June 24th, 2008
Flashback: Shello
In September of 2005 Susan and I made our second hike that year in Point Mugu State Park. The first time a few months previous we explored the expansive grasslands of its La Jolla Valley, but this second time we hiked to Mugu Peak (about 1,300 feet).
About a third or so of the way up [...]
1 Comment » - Posted in flashback, history, outdoors by Will
Monday, June 23rd, 2008
In Passing
Last week, a big black Sport Futility Vehicle passes me at speed on 6th Street just east of Fairfax veeeery much too close for comfort. I’m talking another couple inches and trouble. So I fly the middle finger and boom a fah-cue! at its ass, but the sumbitch just guns it and goes. Five [...]
8 Comments » - Posted in biking, health by Will
Monday, June 23rd, 2008
Arachnicide
So. Sadness: my tiny doorway spider is dead. I’ve written about her far more than I’d imagined I would. I first found her in April and marveled as she produced not one but two egg sacs. Subscribing to the Charlotte’s Web mythology, after her first brood hatched and dispersed I figured she wasn’t long [...]
