It takes me a while to get round to doing things I don’t enjoy. Over the years I’ve filled out so many forms for immigration and the like that I’ve become quite formophobic, so the health insurance application is still an ongoing project. I can only take so much of it at once. Yet even [...]

The pressure’s changed and I feel slightly dizzy. Must be a thunderstorm. Ah, there we go. Pretty rainbow while it lasted, though. Does anyone else out there react physically to thunderstorms?

In 2001, a new translation of the saga of Beowulf was published, and became an unlikely bestseller. How many copies were actually read probably remained on a par with Hawking’s “A Brief History of Time,” or Pirsig’s “Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance”–but with this translation the tale I remembered hearing in part as [...]

10 October 2004 When you go to Weight Watchers, you’re expected to show up every week, or else you are charged for the weeks you miss. Since I’d run out of “get out of jail free” cards, I went to a meeting, stayed for a refresher course and then just kept on going. Before long [...]

It’s a good job it’s been raining a bit this weekend. Uvas Reservoir is down to 5.6% of its capacity…

This is me, going down Morrison Canyon Road, which is a teensy little rather challenging and “interesting” road between I-680 and Fremont’s Mission Avenue (I think it’s avenue). Obviously I didn’t take this picture myself, but the minute I saw the topic “fast” I knew it would have to be a picture of someone, probably [...]

I took my 10,000th picture with this camera today. I think I’ve had it for three years, now… I guess I’m getting my money’s worth. But I’m a little gobsmacked. ETA: it turns out to only be 9,900 but the counter has resent back to img_0001 so I guess that’s all you get in a [...]

We just got a letter from the department of housing and community development. Apparently, our mobile home park, you know, the one that’s going to be pulled down by the end of August, is going to be having a code compliance inspection in the next 60 days. If we are found to be in violation [...]

Quite often, lately, I get to the point where I feel I’m being killed by pillows being dropped on me, lots and lots of fluffy nightmarish pillows. Each pillow is Something Which Must Be Done–each in and of itself is nothing major, nothing traumatic–it’s just that there are lots of them, and they keep on [...]