After my trip Thursday to the Metro Courthouse to see about the status of the ticket I got on my bike in December turned out to be a wasted one, I pedaled up to the Central Library to redeem the day by checking out an exhibit of historical Los Angeles maps that are being displayed …
With tomorrow being the deadline to appear regarding the citation I received Dec. 09 during the annual Midnight Ridazz All-City Toy Ride (my multiple attempts to process it online denied due to the citation being “not found”), I pedaled down to the Metro Traffic Courthouse on South Hill Street, only to find out via the …
Read more “Even Though This Was A Wasted Trip To The Courthouse, No Trip On A Bike Is A Waste”
I haven’t done much here in way of tooting/touting my upcoming bigger-and-better-than-last-time’s Watts Happening Ride next month, but I figured since I slapped together the spokecard art yesterday, why not start the tooting/touting now: Basic details — When: February 18 at 9 a.m. Start/Finish: Happy Foot/Sad Foot sign at the northwest corner of Sunset Boulevard …
Read more “Watts Happening Ride 2012: The Spokecard Art Is Here”
Helluva sunset this evening. Enough to get me up on the highest point of the roof and point my camera in its general direction. For anyone keeping score, those distant silhouetted protrusions about a third of the way in from the right are the skyscrapers of Century City, roughly 8.2 miles away as the crow …
Two day’s after the first rain of 2012 comes the second storm of the year. Expected by meteorologists to pack a bigger wallop across the region than Saturday’s, it did not — at least not in our backyard according to our precipitometer, which registered 1 7/8ths of an inch (1.875″) as of 5 p.m. under …
Yesterday after breakfast (and before the day’s NFL Conference Championship games yielded the two teams I least wanted to see in the Super Bowl; but still: Go Giants, beat that Brady Bunch!), Susan and I went for a morning hike with Ranger in Bronson Canyon Park, a place I’ve been visiting since I was 12 …
I’m doing much better. I still have moments where I’ll be watching TV or talking on the phone or washing dishes or whatever and my breath will catch in my throat and/or I’ll get a little verklempt when my thoughts suddenly turn to Shadow. But all in all, I’m not near the wet rag I …