A trip to Burbank’s Supply Sargeant surplus store for a beanie for my baby preceeded a trip to Costco to pick up my birthday present from my mom. For several years now mother and I have worked off the same script: Mom: You’ve got a birthday coming up. Me: Yep. Mom: You got anything particular …
Saturday morning was spent with some L.A. County Bike Coalition members and volunteers to help post signage that will keep 6th Annual Los Angeles River Ride riders headed in the right direction today. From the Los Angeles River Center I biked down to Mariachi Plaza in Boyle Heights where, with the assistance of Bruce Dobb …
Since the latest season of Thursday’s Survivor is over, Susan and I opted to watch The New World last night and dammit I should’ve known better. See, I suffered Mallick’s previous film The Thin Red Line and swore I’d never give anything Terrence did the time of day. In fact I said more than that …
Regardless of its triviality, I need to immortalize the t-shirt I wore today because 1) I’ve had it for more than 15 years, and 2) I wore it for the very first time today. I bought it in the very early 1990s when I took a tour of Frank Lloyd Wright’s famed Ennis-Brown House in …
So I chose today to be the day to go down to City Hall (by bike of course since it’s L.A.’s annual Bike To Work Day) and take care of the business license/tax money I owed because the city somehow couldn’t find me to collect so they shipped my account off to a collection agency …
I found it interesting to realize that the amount of weight I’ve lost since beginning my diet in January now corresponds to a filled one of these five-gallon jobbers… …which translates to 43 pounds. Having once been employed to carry these where ever they needed to go, it’s a weight with which I’m definitely familiar. …
My quick-‘n-dirty business cards arrived via VistaPrint today. I ordered them after attending the blogger gathering at the Golden Gopher last week and I was practically the only one who didn’t have one to hand out. So I went home and whipped one up via VP’s handy cardbuilding tool — even used a photo I …