I bought a "real" bike yesterday ( Read more... )

If you're wondering where K has been, she's here, as are all of us - we're just more or less shut off from the world. Thank the deity of your choice for the mothership's library ( Read more... )

In a way, it's the end of the road - the Klondike Highway ends at the Yukon River, which at that point is about 300-400 meters wide, and there's no bridge (at least not yet, but that's a different story). There's a ferry across that will take you across to... well, fact is there isn't much across the river - a road to the US border, which then ( Read more... )

I'm back in Whitehorse after 10 days of tooling around the Yukon ( Read more... )

I'm safely ensconced at the Beez Kneez Bakpakers Hostel in Whitehorse, in the company of just almost no Canadians and a number of lovely European tourists whose multilingual abilities again have me embarrassed to be a victim of the American educational system. Nevertheless, it is wonderful to be here ( Read more... )

I'm back in LA after a complicated ordeal getting from Williamstown/North Adams to Albany by public transportation. Short version: not for the meek. Slightly longer version: 90 minutes and one transfer from home to Pittsfield; 60 minute layover there; 60 minutes on the bus to downtown Albany; 30 minutes waiting for an appropriate Albany bus; 45 ( Read more... )

I arrived at my new home last night as the sun set over the west hills and the reception on the Pirates-Mets game on AM radio faded into static. Suffice to say that K did a good job - it's a good house in a beautiful setting, and while it's obvious that it has been rented for a while and I'm glad I don't own it, I can easily see living there at ( Read more... )

While K gallivants eastward to find us a place to live, I am fending for myself with my lovely daughter ( Read more... )

These refs are really pissing me off. First Tunisia doesn't get a penalty kick on an obvious handball by Ukraine in the area, and then the refs give Ukraine a penalty kick on a dubious foul by Tunisia. It completely changed the complexion of the game - Ukraine looked just as bored and uninspired as the Americans did yesterday, and they deserved ( Read more... )

Congrats to yaoobruni and his Ghanan butt-kicking football team. The Black Stars made the US look as lackluster as they in fact were ( Read more... )