Two years ago today Susan and I were in Rwanda outside Volcanoes National Park getting set to trek mountain gorillas. 19 JULY 2005 ‚ 0015 HOURS ‚ VIRUNGA LODGE, RWANDA I am sitting at the writing desk in our banda at the Virunga Lodge just after midnight, having slept some four hours. I am writing …
Indeed it’s Friday the 13th as well as the second Friday of the month which means Midnight Ridazz tonight has been appropriately and spooktacularly themed for the coincidence. From the midnightridazz.com: Leave out the past and future. It’s time to ride. It’s time to experience life like never before. This will be an amazing ride …
Click to quadruplize, of course I don’t fancy myself a sports reporter, and I certainly try not to kick a person when they’re down, but in regards to the game Susan and I walked to and from last night things were going relatively well for Dodger pitcher Mark Hendrickson and his team through the fifth …
Maybe I’ve written of it before, but my favorite time of my childhood was when I lived on Holly Drive in Hollywood in the mid-1970s, primarily because there were a bunch of neighborhood kids around my age and there was a vacant lot on the corner where we’d have occasional baseball games and dirtclod fights. …
Caught you! You lousy… paper… thieving… Cat?! Alas, after putting out the decoy paper this neighborhood feline proved to have the most interest of any of the parade of beings that my surveillance camera caught passing by between about 8:30 p.m. last night and a little after 9 a.m. this morning. The switch-and-bait manuever occured …
Well, everything’s in place to catch a petty thief. I have a “dummy” Sunday paper ready with which to get up early and bait the trap, I have the DV cam aimed in the right direction and I have the software set (fingers crossed) to automatically record Quicktime movies whenever the motion sensor is tripped. …
Barring significant and steady rainfall tomorrow and looking for one last looooong pre-marathon conditioning walk, I’m seriously considering setting out super early and making Wednesday’s morning commute from Silver lake to El Segundo entirely on foot. Should it not be raining and I somehow keep common sense at bay I expect I’ll be following alongside …