So I put on a tie and got myself down to the Ronald Reagan state building at 300 S. Spring Street in time for my 8:15 a.m. hearing to appeal the Employment Development Department’s categorical denial of my unemployment benefits. As I said yesterday, I felt the opportunity to elaborate my side could bring needed …
First up: I finally — finally! — finished and filed the story on gorilla trekking in Rwanda that I’ve been working on for months. And by “working on” I mean “dicking around with so frustratingly.” Being my own worst critic, I am not at all satisfied with it. It’s waaaaaaay long and suffers from a …
Two Decembers ago, just before 2005 landed, I stepped on a scale and whopped out at 260. I’d been in that neighborhood weight for the better part of a year, having climbed there after peaking at 229 following the conclusion of the 475-mile bike ride I did from San Francisco to Santa Clarita in October …
Wow, It’s before 8 a.m. and I’m up and showered and dressed and ready to go somewhere as if I have a real job or something, which I do, albeit it’s more of a personal mission. The plan is to finish this Rwanda feature by Friday. Pardon the analogy but this ape story has become …
“Dont think about all those things you fear, Just be glad to be here.” — From “Hayling” by FC Kahuna And with that tripsonic tonic flowing out of my iPod and into my ears I rolled on The Phoenix over to the post office to mail a couple things and pick up a bunch of …
Totally forgot to mention that a jury summons arrived on Christmas Eve. I went through the phone registration and now I’m scheduled to report to the Stanley Mosk Courthouse at 111 N. Hill Street January 30 (or at least I’m to call in the weeked before to see if I need to report). I’m so …
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Click for a brief vidclip of some of the wetstuff that fell to earth this last day of 2005.