I last filled up my truck’s gas tank up in the beginning of July. In the time since I’ve only put 139 miles on the odometer because I mainly use it on weekends for local trips to the hardware store or Costco. The two longest trips we’ve taken with it this year have been Disneyland …
My friend Julia inquired recently about how our Russian tortoise Buster might be doing in her new digs: I’m way happy to report she has really taken well to her new 25-square foot outdoor residence. It’s a far far more improved thing than the aquariums she’s lived in since 2001 when my mom found her …
Forgive me if I come off sound all golf-instructory (for the real deal go see Al Crawford at the Griffith Park driving range), but while hitting your woods well out of the driving range teebox may be more sexy and satisfying, a good drive on the golf course doesn’t mean diddlus squatumus if you can’t …
Following up my post below that showcases my first video timelapse of a bike commute, I did one both going and coming the next day. All in it’s eight minutes of herky-jerky seizure inducement, but thanks to the features of YouTube so you can haz greataaar enturtaynmint valyoo they’ve got semi-incongruous music tracks to give …
I was late in the office tonight. I don’t like to be, but when it’s time to leave I actually enjoy riding home through the dark. So I mounted the cam on my handlebars, set it to take a low-res snap every second and then rode home. Here’s what the hour trip from Westchester to …
Better than they look. I’ve been dousing them pretty regularly with isopropyl alcohol and hydrogen peroxide (no, not at the same time), which has been key in minimizing what coulda/woulda been a gnarly infection since there’s still a fair amount of burning and bubbling of the respective liquids when applied. And I’ve been pretty persistent …
Of all the things I’ve seen while cycling 4,200 miles of the city’s streets this past eight months, such scenes with me are seldom more than the most fleetingly glimpsed (click to triplify). Here’s to being a thousand miles away from my revised goal and maybe getting a thousand more miles past it before the …