Current view from the office:


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Well, the good news came in the form of an email from Tom Stienstra this morning. Evidently, he had quite a holiday vacation and is now enjoying his windfall.

As for the bad news, I'm sad to report that Manka's Inverness Lodge caught fire this morning and burned to the ground. This was where I shot the pilot of my travel show in March of 2004 ( ( Read more... )

Let me introduce you to my new favorite search engine!

(For kicks, try typing in phrases such as President Bush, Dick Cheney, or Howard Stern)

I'm looking to get a pro-sumer type digital camera, and I need some assistance from those who have knowledge in this area. Yes, I'm looking at you, queso, gopackgo and honeywoneyI figure with online retailers offering good incentives/prices for the holiday season, now is the time to buy. That, and I just found out I'm getting a Christmas bonus from my boss (competely ( Read more... )

So my neighbor. Don't see him much. He's got a wife, couple of kids, an extremely noisy dog and a white SUV. Never gave him much thought until I got back from vacation.

You see, when I was away, he came INTO OUR YARD AND CUT DOWN A 40-FOOT REDWOOD TREE ON OUR PROPERTY.

MUTHAF----!!!!One of my roommates was home at the time, and approached him in ( Read more... )

I'm no fan of Terrell Owens. But I do feel saddened - as I would towards anybody - when I read about his recent "suicide attempt."And while I'd like to believe the spin his publicist is putting on the incident (saying it was an allergic reaction to medication, vs. the official police report that lists evidence of a suicide attempt), I had to pause ( Read more... )

Is it bad that I had a Starbucks in my dream last night? I mean, not as a setting or as an integral part of my dream storyline... but just as part of the surrounding landscape? That's creepy.

You know what rocks more than a weekend backpacking trip?

Backpacking on Sunday night. NOBODY is around!

It's only an hour's drive from my house to Butano State Park on the San Mateo Coast. I hiked 5.5 miles up to the park's trail camp yesterday and had the whole ridgetop to myself. It was perfect. The fog muffled all the woodland noises... ( Read more... )

So I was on my evening run, when a bit of movement makes me turn my head ( Read more... )

What do you get when you combine blue skies, seventy-degree temperatures, scented pine forests, azure lakes all to yourself, birdcalls, wild deer, no other campers in sight... but about a BILLION BLOODTHIRSTY MOSQUITOES?

You get the Caribou Wilderness, in early July!


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