Time To Shine

I sucked at shining my boots when it mattered most — during my time as a cadet at a local public police academy. I was a complete failure at putting a proper gleam on my boots, and I paid the price at inspections in getting yelled at and doing pushups. Since then in the course …

Where The Hell Have I Been And What The Hell Have I Been Doing?

In the 12-plus years I’ve been a-blogging, I don’t think I’ve ever gone more than a week or two without posting SOMETHING. So you can imagine my shock when I saw I’d last been seen here basically more than three weeks ago. The funny thing is, I’ve still been communicating, but mostly on Facebook, which …

Timelapse: Glendale DMV Ride

In what’s only my fifth ride of the entirety-to-date of 2013 (egad!), I tripped on over to the Glendale DMV to pick up a copy of the latest edition of the California Vehicle Code. There’s something fulfillingly off-kilter about biking to the Department of Motor Vehicles, which is exactly why I did it, in this …

Perserverance Personified

Buster is a mind-changer. Most of my life I considered tortoises to be plodding, simple-minded and uninteresting creatures. But then along comes this Russian tortoise into my life in October 2001 and she burned that opinion to the ground — and continues to do so. Even though this clip ends in her failure to escape …