Driving East on the 60 Freeway, car smelling of my  bounty of Indonesian Food, I  had a few more stops to ma ke. First...... Yes Plaza: As I previously posted, what is now Yes Plaza, was a pretty dark and seedy strip mall back when we lived a few blocks away. Becau se o...

I really need to make an excursion to Chicago one of these days...perhaps a little weekend jaunt down to Kenosha and grabbing the Metra may work out as well as it did in October...though I'd need Gonzo the Ford ZX2 to be in better operational capacity first... Hrm... I mean, ideally, I'd just find a...

Just got in from a day that required six hours of travel. The upside is I got to listen to a good deal of talk radio. The downside is that I'm almost too tired to think. The bloated budget proposal seems to be the big thing on everyone's mind today which is why, I suppose, the U.S. Senate took today...

I don't know how many times I've been asked for a recommendation for the "best take-out roast duck in San Diego." And boy do I hemm and haw, and when I finally do make a recommendation, I preface everything with so much "fine print" that it ends  up reading, o...

Yes, I have a "little black book"......no, not that kind of little black book! This Moleskin that I c arry around is full of litt le handy dandy notes...thing s like addr esses, how to change the t ime on my wristwatch, a nd sometimes, when I anticipate that all to of ten...

Mark’s been hard at work editing 13 hours of video into a series of 15-minute video episodes that document our 6 days with the Rock Stars of Reading this past November. Sadly, maintaining flow and focus in each video means lots of great footage on the cutting room floor. Members of our free em...

The rain came down all day long and into the night. Sometimes it just sprinkled, sometimes it rained hard, but it kept on raining. It was wet and cold all day. We didn’t care. We are on vacation and in San Francisco. As we walked up Columbus Avenue towards Chinatown for dinner, Carol looked at...

It's hard to know where to begin writing anything, it's been such an overwhelming week. So I'm just going to start at the beginning and see where I end up. On Black Saturday as it's now known, I was at......

I have a new power cord! Yay! So you get coast pictures. Yay! :) We started off at Seaside. which had a huuuuge long beachy sandy shore. Dave thought he'd take a nice beach nap. Isaiah thought he'd play the drums. Ellen working on her name in the sand. The tide was waaaay out and some sort of animal...

I have a work trip to Europe scheduled in my near future. Aside from being anxious about the plane trip, (a side note here: I am not your traditional fearful flyer. If I was the only one on the plane, I’d be happy as could be. I have great confidence in the physics that keep the plane in the a...