It's a normal Saturday ( Read more... )

I wish this was some deep subject, but frankly its not.  Like most people my age, I am dealing with vision issues.

I started wearing contact lenses in 1986 and have always used Acuview extended wear contacts.  For whatever reason, my eyes have proven to be quite forgiving and its been common for me to wear the lenses for weeks at a time.  I little ( Read more... )

 
February 27, 2008 - Thursday

So much has changed since that rather bleak last post.  I am half a year older (46), and my life has gone completely around since then.  My divorce is done, at least we are now down to just paperwork at the courthouse, the kids and I are getting a nice new apartment tomorrow, and money is not an issue for the first ( Read more... )

September 30, 2007 - Sunday

The bumpy road ahead

This is a very chaotic time in my life, but the future is full of promise.  My divorce is near the end.  My children are transitioning from "little kids" to complex and well-developed individuals.  There are a multitude of reasons for me to shed the baggage of my past and no good reasons for ( Read more... )

August 12, 2007 - Sunday

Another day at the beach

We spent the day at the beach again, mentally willing the summer to last a little longer.  Hours of hauling out handfulls of sand dollars, slack waves giving Jenner a gentle introduction to the world of boogie-boarding.

For months, she has busied herself at the highwater mark, digging castles ( Read more... )

July 16, 2007 - Monday

Day of the Killer Sand Dollars

July 15, 2007 - a rather typical day at the beach.  Jenner was playing in the shallows while Lex and I tried to wring a couple boogie-board waves out of an almost bath-tub flat Pacific.  Poseidon was simply NOT cooperating.  The surf was mild at best.

A really strange thing happened.  Usually, ( Read more... )

July 4, 2007 - Wednesday

profile music

For the last twenty years, I have occasionally had a fragment of a song running through my head.  It resisted all efforts over the years to track down the original song, since I only knew a few words of it.

I spent the 1980s in a weird state of alternative existance.  While time passed linearly here in the ( Read more... )

 
February 15, 2007 - Thursday

Go to lunch, or open another box?
Current mood: thirsty

At the local air museum today, I took the lid off 50 storage boxes in the labyrinthine basement, each one filled with odd bits and pieces from Earth's violent recent past.  Canteens from WWI filled one.  Bags of shrapnel from the Battle of Guadalcanal filled ( Read more... )

January 27, 2007 - Saturday

1 AM, 2 AM, 3 AM

At 1 AM I am:

alert, restless, eating an apple, doing situps, looking back and forth between some infomercial and my computer, posting on Rec.Aviation.Military, checking on my kids and pulling their discarded blankets back over them, playing five-handed poker with myself, thinking about old friends, ( Read more... )

November 24, 2006 - Friday

Ancestors

My kids and I go to lots of museums - its a routine thing.  Today, we went to a place I normally pass on, the Mingei Museum at Balboa Park, next to the famous San Diego Zoo.  Usually, the Mingei is rather boring - I call it the Japanese Fancy Pottery Museum, which is usually what you find there.  Recently, I ( Read more... )