For my birthday in May I got the gift of a jury duty notice from the L.A. County Superior Court and as I’m one of the few and the proud who are motivated by the opportunity to do my civic duty, I wasted no time registering and looking forward to my start date of July …
Last night was the two-year anniversary ride of RIDE-Arc’s monthly bike gathering, but instead of trying to top past spectacle rides such as May’s which provided unbelievable access to the Long Beach Port or last October’s which included unheard of after-hours entry to two landmark cemeteries, organizers Alex and Gabe delivered a thought-provoking of ride …
It was 10 years ago today that we found each other. About six weeks earlier on my birthday in 1997 I’d totaled my previous ride pretty spectacularly, and in that trying period of carlessness I kick-started my appreciation for commuting by bike and mass transit while scouring the automobile classifieds in hopes of finding a …
Click to quadruplize, of course I don’t fancy myself a sports reporter, and I certainly try not to kick a person when they’re down, but in regards to the game Susan and I walked to and from last night things were going relatively well for Dodger pitcher Mark Hendrickson and his team through the fifth …
Sadly, in preparing for tonight’s game I have been unable to locate my Dodgers cap and can only ashamedly assume I suffered a major league brainfart in including it in my last clothing purge/donation to Goodwill. What an idiot! But in the process of searching for it I did find some Dodger memorabilia that I …
I’d hazard anyone with the slightest sense of who I am has a pretty good idea that when it comes to animals and wildlife I’m all about protect and respect. The more dissed the coyote, the opossum, the rat, the reptile or spider the more I rally to its side. And while I can entirely …
A year ago today we were up in Troy, Montana enjoying an old-fashioned smalltown Independence Day parade and later an afternoon backyard barbeque by Susan’s Uncle Jim followed later by an awesome fireworks display launched from a park beside the Kootenai River (click to enlarge)… that we watched from the front yard of Susan’s grandma’s …