This morning I enjoyed a couple unique experiences, the first involving a spider floating in full retracted dead position upon the surface of the backyard waterbowl, who turned out not to be dead, and the second demonstrating a rather exceptional ability to find things I hadn’t even lost yet. Maybe you saw my video a …
One of my most-viewed YouTube videos is a timelapse I made some 3.5 years ago of a nocturnally blooming cactus flower over the fence in my neighbor’s backyard. I made the mistake of titling the video “San Pedro Cactus Bloom” and paid the price for that in the ensuing comments with various way-too-serious cactologists who …
Ranger can be counted on to occasionally sing along with sirens as they come in and go out of earshot through the neighborhood, and I can usually be counted on to not have a device handy to record the musical interludes — but not today. With Ranger in the livingroom I was able to get …
Waaaay back — I’m talking like three or four years — I set out to grow a batch of seeds from four store-bought avocados. All four sprouted leaves but one died rather quickly, and a second one went after a few months. The remaining two now all gangly/spindly and between three- and four-feet tall were …
I love it when a plan goes according to plan. Simple though it was, my day was scheduled to consist of watching TV and going for a bike ride. First was the Rose Parade, followed by the Capital One Bowl (in which my 2009 National Champion Crimson Tide put an Alabamazing exclamation point to a …
In celebration of Angels Flight’s 109th anniversary, fares on The World’s Shortest Railway were rolled back on New Year’s Eve from their present day quarter to 1901 prices: one cent. And since plans were in place to see “Next To Normal” at the Ahmanson, rather than park at the Music Center, I opted to park …
Well, with 2010’s bike mileage tally, my back-to-back streak of 6,000-plus mile years did not three-peat. While 2008 saw me log 6,608 miles and 2009, 6,741, I certainly started off 2010 on track to top 6,000 again, collecting more than 2,000 miles by the end of April. But then came May and with it my …
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