Posts under ‘General’

This is a night to remember. Watching the election results and seeing the announcement at 8pm sharp that Obama was my president with my best friend…. celebrating with the neighbors all night, including with neighbors I didn’t know as well. Historical. No two ways about it. And probably the most historical of my life. Only [...]

Earlier today I was suddenly reminded of a dream that happened last night. I was with Angus in a group of people, his friends or people he knew. I was chatting a guy and several things clicked. 1) It was this guy: 2) The day before he’d accepted the friend request on Facebook (this is [...]

Heartwarmer: Man helps out stranded newlywed (highly recommended read) Some giggles: Political Anagrams

It becomes a real battle to keep your car clean as everything in the vicinity quickly becomes layered in black exhaust dust. I long ago gave up the fight and the car only got washed when I took it to Saturn for oil changes because they do it for free. But I haven’t done that [...]

I know that there’s some serious trouble going on but I’d avoided reading much about it because for the most part I can’t do anything about any of it. When A snarked about belonging to a better bank than Wamu earlier, that was my first clue that something was up. I’d seen the rumblings over [...]

of my birth… I pretty much never really do anything for my birthday because usually there’s not very many people that I know well enough to want to invite to a party close enough by to try and arrange a party. But since I’ve come to live in Hollywood, that’s changed a lot… which is [...]

Feels like the Gestapo were outside my door last night… But what makes it even weirder, just before 9pm last night I had the most bizarre and unfortunately nasty encounter with an employee of the Transit Authority. I was “watering the dogs” in which I walk them to the little fenced off area next between [...]

So hard to catch these moments on camera but I got lucky…

Here’s the ticket, courtesy of Ms. Mary