So this morning I call up the company handling my 403b (the nonprofit version of a 401k) made stagnant and soon subject to administrative fees because of my change in employment in November. I’d called the company up at the end of that month to see what my options were, and after hearing the rep …
Aw yeah! My underdog Crimson Tide beat Texas Tech 13-10 in the last second of Cotton Bowl regulation with the strangest looking field goal I’ve ever seen kicked through the uprights. And as a bonus, in the Capital One bowl Alabama archrival Auburn gets its top 10-ranked asses kicked by the badgers of Wisonsin, 24-10. …
Whenever a month begins on a Sunday a Friday the 13th is unavoidable.
… my true love said to me: TAMALES! In accordance with the tradition we began on New Year’s Day last year, tamales were the order of the day. Last year we did so on December 31, getting them from an Echo Park panderia on Sunset Boulevard, but this year being a day late we discovered …
Click for a brief vidclip of some of the wetstuff that fell to earth this last day of 2005.
That time already? Yes, it’s that day at the the dying of the year that I trot out the usual plans and ideas I have for the year about to come. I wouldn’t say I have a great track record in achieving everything I resolve to accomplish, but my average is perhaps better than some, …
Susan and I just finished watching Grizzly Man, the documentary by Werner Herzog on Timothy Treadwell who found his life’s calling — and death — living for months at a time among the grizzlies of the Alaskan peninsula’s Katmai National Park. Treadwell first came to my attention in the ’90s when his book Among Grizzlies: …