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Cats & Dogs & Dogs & Frogs
Earlier this week my friend Sean Bonner tweeted the need to find a new home for a trio of tree frogs for whom he and his wife Tara had been caring. Turns out the tiny things can be disproportionately noisy for their size, and Sean was having a hard time focusing on the management of …
Talkin’ ‘Bout Regeneration
(all images can be clicked for the bigger picture) A couple weeks ago Susan came home to find a tell-tale lizard tail on the kitchen floor, but unlike the last time when Jiggy brought a tail and its lizard inside, the rest of the reptile was nowhere in sight so we figured (hoped) that Jiggy …
Circa 1915
The floor-level outlet that has provided the power to our entertainment unit has long needed upgrading. It’s old two-pronger (as evidenced by the interesting decorative detail around the plugs, as shown above) that has been an overloaded trooper in steadily supplying the needed juice through an eight-outlet powerstrip to all our audio/visual stuff. But it …
Melrose & Western, 11:07 Monday Night
(click for the bigger picture) I may be wired different. A troubled morning commute to work that features three flats (Nos. 23, 24, 25 for the year, if you’re counting, which I am) and an angry left hamstring leaves me arriving an hour and a half late to a busy Monday at work. Then I …
Cleaning Up A Mess
In the most desperate days of my long stretch of unemployment — I mean freelancing — I drove all the way down to Dominguez Hills in the summer of 2007 and applied to be a dependent contractor for DirecTV, installing their satellite TV systems. In fact, perhaps the only reason I didn’t take the $10-per-hour …
I Am A Boy Scout
Ride a bike enough and the out-of-the-ordinary noises they make become readily recognizable, such as the sharp sound that emanated from the front wheel after I’d angled off of La Brea onto Redondo yesterday morning on my way to work. To the ear of the unfamiliar rider it might have sounded and felt like you’d …