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Sunday, August 10th, 2008
Lights, Camera, Action
Saturday morning I found one of the neighboring yard’s cactus flowers pretty well inundated with bees, and posted about it here with video links on L.A. Metblogs.
Sure enough by Saturday night all but one of the remaining cactus blooms opened up, none of which were ideally situated to capture the nocturnal blossoms in all their [...]
1 Comment » - Posted in backyarchaeology, nature, updated by Will
Sunday, August 10th, 2008
Nolympics
Rising from the terrorizing ashes that were the 1972 summer games in Munich, my fervor for the Olympic games probably crescendoed in 1976 when Bruce Jenner won the decathlon and I decided I wanted to become a world-class decathlete by 1980. That pipe dream was crushed when I approached Coach Hills at Le Conte Junior [...]
3 Comments » - Posted in Uncategorized by Will
Saturday, August 9th, 2008
Tales From Junior High
In the beginning of my first year at Le Conte Junior High in Hollywood I thought I’d become friends with a ninth grader named Tony. I say “thought” because it was definitively and painfully proven to me that this was later not the case at all.
I can’t remember the particulars that resulted in Tony being [...]
2 Comments » - Posted in Defining Moments, education, flashback by Will
Friday, August 8th, 2008
08/08/08 @ 08:08:08 A.M.
Westbound on Venice Boulevard I just biked across La Cienega Boulevard.
2 Comments » - Posted in biking, happenings, iPhone by Will
Thursday, August 7th, 2008
Best Of Times, Worst Of Times
Ready to show it off and begin getting familiar with my new iPhone, I came home Wednesday evening triumphant against the lethargic salesborg force at the Culver City AT&T store whose entire lack of urgency or expediency brought about a 65-minute bout of standing around until my name was called (while the apparent supervisor busied [...]
1 Comment » - Posted in adventure, animals, gadgets, happenings by Will
Wednesday, August 6th, 2008
This Just In
This is my to first attempt at blogging from my new iPhone. Fascinating stuff, yes?
…Uh. No.
No Comments » - Posted in gadgets, iPhone by Will
Monday, August 4th, 2008
A Place In The Sun
I take so many pictures sometimes I forget about them until I scrollback through the archives. This one was taken a fews weeks ago of Pepper at his favorite morning hangout place on the mat outside the backdoor in the sunshine (click to triplify):
5 Comments » - Posted in animals by Will
Monday, August 4th, 2008
Sa-wing!
While a couple chores went undone thanks to the elongated Battle Of The Bottom Bracket, the energy drawn from my ultimate win against the stubborn bicycle component fueled me to get the vacuuming done, and as reward for that I hit the Majestic Golf Land driving range and hit $12 worth of golf balls.
This time [...]
1 Comment » - Posted in sports by Will
Sunday, August 3rd, 2008
Victory
At the end of the battle and not without tears streaming down my face I stood with the tattered remains of my vanquished foe held high before the front window where my Susan looked out at me.
“I do not quit,” I said in a quiet and quivering voice. And my Susan left the window and [...]
6 Comments » - Posted in Defining Moments, biking by Will
Saturday, August 2nd, 2008
Non An iPhone But’s A Toppest Simulatory
Not that anyone’s counting but me, but I’ve now entered into my second month of waiting for my iPhone to arrive. OK, so it’s not all that bad. Officially it’s really Business Day No. 5 of my up-to-21-day iPhone delivery waiting period that AT&T requires to fulfill my order (No. 8 in nonbusiness-day count, but [...]
