About to amscray for another edition of Thugsday night bike riding, this time first to MacArthur Park to check out a free concert and then south to see the two places west of USC that Jackie Robinson called home during his 1947 rookie season with the Brooklyn Dodgers. Pictures will follow. UPDATE (08.10): I spoke …
So the DSL modem went into what turned out to be its death throes last night, its panel of three LEDs raging in a blinky fluttering show of red and orange and green desperation. I unplugged the thing and let it sit a bit before reconnecting it, but that didn’t help things. Then I pulled …
When we recycled our Christmas tree (along with several others discarded curbside by holiday arbor tards in the immideate area) in January at the city collection station set up in the L.A. Zoo parking lot not only did we get a couple of free energy efficient light bulbs, but also as part of the citywide …
This is Trooper: Trooper lives a few doors down the street from us and today is but the latest of several occasions (probably many more than I’m aware of) where he’s gotten out of his seemingly not-very-closed sideyard enclosure to slip past the driveway gate of his building while it’s opening or closing and go …
It’s one thing to be able to look so close through a set of such gorgeous stained glass wings (click to quadruplify): And its another extra special bonus entirely to have a front row seat as one frolics in the water while another attempts to join the pool party. I’m not sure if the dragonfly …
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. …
Ahh but I love how the internest brings us together from all walks of life. Checking my WordPress dashboard this morning I find a comment to a post titled “Pupdate No. 1” written July 20, 2006, reflecting on our first week with the four pups we rescued in Utah while on vacation that month. Like …