Pepper is well known around our house for his efforts to bath me and The Jig, another of our cats. Occasionally he’ll tackle Ranger, but most attempts to clean up the dog end after a few seconds, Today’s session, however, went way beyond short and routine when Pepper jumped onto the club chair Ranger was …
In 1988 I did stupid things with the ridiculous amount of credit I’d managed to acquire. It seemed there was no card I didn’t have and it all began when on a lark at the age of 20 making about 13,000 a year as a courier for a travel visa company I submitted an application …
Call me old-fashioned, but with the way our flag waved in the Veteran’s Day afternoon gusts, I felt compelled to timelapse it from the front porch and then augment the footage with me solemnly reading one of the greatest tributes to our nation’s military personnel: The Gettysburg Address.
So my November 1 deadline arrived but my goal weight of 215 didn’t come with it. I ended up about five pounds short. I’d set that mark when I began this trip downward back when I was 236 at the beginning of July as something of a midway point toward my actual longer-termed goal of …
Unlike the previous video from a chest-level perspective, I left Philippe’s for home across a wind-scrubbed downtown with the cam bolted back onto my handlebars. The middle section of this clip features a nice prolonged interlude inside Orange 20 Bikeshop, where I decided to head to from my day at Philippe’s to get some advice …
A Monday morning power outage left me in the need of electricity. So I packed up the laptop and biked it to the nearest outlet at Philippe’s near Chinatown, recording the trip via a unique chest mount for my GoPro camera. It certainly provides a different perspective than a handlebar mount, making my arms look …
Up at 2:30 a.m. thanks to a power outage (that LADWP now says will continue to 12:30 p.m.), I paid a well-timed visit into the rainy backyard this morning, which offered me a chance to observe a neighborhood skunk who had started to come through our backyard but then reversed course and found an alternate …