I've been missing from my East Bay AOA since the middle of July; two weeks ( Read more... )

Maybe the nostalgia stems from my previous time in this house and brief acquaintances with my sister's friends, but moving her things out of her house has me feeling somewhat... sad. Sentimental, at least. The style of socializing around here has an edge to it: a good edge. My sister's drinking buddies, some of whom are genuine friends, tend to ( Read more... )

These plains states get some bright, intense sun. It does not remind me of our little wooded hideaway on Claremont Blvd in the East Bay ( Read more... )

What was that about an impartial, apolitical military philosophy ( Read more... )

I was charmed to see a scrub jay in Walnut Creek the other day. I never see them in the East Bay, and it was lovely. Almost worth crossing those mountains to get into Orinda. Heh ( Read more... )

Here I am again in a place I've explored at length but have no real connection with. I LOVE this phenomenon! Los Angeles has seen me return a couple of times since I left, and the experience of blowing into a random city - Los Angeles, Seattle, New York, Missoula, or Tokyo - and knowing just what and where I'd like to drop in for a treat, that is ( Read more... )

It's a little cheaper to change out bald tires on a hybrid road bicycle than on a car ( Read more... )

Man, I have to write a financial statement as a component of a business plan and prerequisite for a marketing plan and while thinking about the financial statement is very good for organizing my personal finances, which have been rather sadly neglected, it doesn't come quite naturally to me ( Read more... )

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