I should have realized when I got hit by a car two days before we went home, that the holiday was going to be rough. And actually it was a U-Haul truck, driven by stupid hippie girls, which kind of added insult to injury. They rode up on the curb at Van Ness and […]

My camera isn’t working, so I’m having to scan everything.

Please observe that these stuuuupid mitten are are all different sizes.
They aren’t really supposed to be.
This reminds me very much of the opening of Jeeves and Wooster when Bertie is describing how his last valet has been pinching his socks, and was “forced to give the […]

Ohhhhhhh, my ass.
Simons (crazy) went surfing this morning (it was 40 degrees outside) at Ocean Beach (insane). And since I was awake anyway (grump, grump), and there was no coffee in the house (woe), I decided I might as well get up as not, since marathon training starts next week (doom). And for a change, […]

It hasn’t been a good day, but I have high hopes for its improvement. His mom is giving him a membership to a gym with a swimming pool, which he has been talking about joining for over a year now. The old man has been kind of tetchy since Daylight Savings started making things so […]

While some people can point to one family member that cooked, I can’t turn around in mine without slapping someone wearing an apron. Growing up, food and family were two things that went together well.
My dad has a contagious enthusiasm for trying new things—generally food that he has gone out and hunted or gathered himself. […]