Last night I got to do two things I’ve been wanting to do for awhile now: Have a drink at the historic Tam O’ Shanter in Atwater Village and meet Rodger “House” Jacobs of 8763 Wonderland who invited me there to help ring in his new year. I’d been an occasional visitor to his blog …
Sunday means weigh-in day. And hot damn if the scale didn’t register another five-pound drop putting me only five away from my first stage goal. If you’d told me I’d be removing 25 pounds in a mere nine weeks I woulda laughed with length and loudness. As I stand now at… 235 …the only component …
So yesterday I braved the bad weather and cowered from my common sense and included myself in the two-year birthday celebration for the Midnight Ridazz. I was joined by Mack Reed of L.A. Voice and we both went the route’s 12.6-mile distance ultimately soaked to the skin and borderline frostbitten in places but without insult …
Coming home from mom’s in Burbank yesterday I took the standard route home: Golden State Freeway to Fletcher to Silver Lake Boulevard. After making the right onto the last thoroughfare and getting up to the reservoir, I find in my rearview mirror from out of nowhere a spiffy new champagne-colored sports sedan right on my …
Went over to mother’s pad today to help her move a piece of furniture and go through a stack of old albums of my deceased stepfather’s that she thought I might be interested in bringing home. There was some cool stuff. Old oldies of “Fats” Waller and Louie Armstrong and Jimmy Durante and Earl Hines …
I’ll keep it simple… mostly. With the new streamlined computer came the need to streamline the workspace. In a nutshell, that meant losing not only the old eMac, but the PowerMac 7600 that I kept around just for old time’s sake. That also meant getting rid of the improvised desk that was basically a slab …
So you may have slogged through my nervous breakdown post last week in which I went to Fry’s Electronics store in Burbank and left with a hard drive and the voice of Steve Jobs in my head, all but doomed to get me some iMac goodness because my nearly four-year-old eMac is, well, just a …