Youthful Recollections: The Best of Seasons By Russ Pearson Well, it’s that time of year! The season I look forward to more than any other and finally it’s come around again. No, I am not talking about autumn…although that probably is my favorite of the four celestial seasons…I’m talking...
After leaving the site of the original San Gabriel mission, we headed over to the Juan Matias Sanchez adobe, which is owned by the city of Montebello and run by the Montebello Historical Society. Tours are given on Saturdays and one of the incredibly fortunate aspects of these tours is that several...
Now we're getting into an area of personal interest to me, which is ship building. Y'all will remember that we talked about the Guadalupe in an earlier post: http://ravenjake.vox.com/library/post/the-anchor-of-the-guadalupe.html and her anchor is still at the San Gabriel Mission. Michael White...
After more than four weeks of unpacking, dealing with Swiss registration formalities and being without phone service or Internet connection, we’re actually beginning to feel at home in Switzerland. More importantly, we are finally able to get our blog up and running. Here is a sum of our...
Please note: This is a cross post. The original is HERE. if you are not on VOX but still want to comment, please go here. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- On the long drive back from Burning Man, my friend Patrick and I discussed our week on the playa and...
(Note: see Wikisource my wiki for a more complete version with more links.) ANDROID MEME'S XENOCHRONY Bob Dobbs (1922-) Diary (1935-1998) (chronological order; original version) ____ 1935 April 22/35 (Paris) "Crowds are all that's left," James Joyce muttered to Eugene Jolas. As Bob Dobbs walked into...
Back in May I learned (through a pretty cool video) that I’d won a California Passport from the Joie de Vivre (JdV) boutique hotel chain. Based entirely in California, JdV has 35 properties throughout the state, and this passport included a 2 night stay at every single one of them. For the...
I was going through some old files today and stumbled across my life list. I hadn't looked at in a while...probably a year or so. But flipping through it, seeing all the things I want to do...it's a good reminder of how much life I have left. I've been feeling kind of fatalistic lately, staring at...
Capital: Harare Independence: 1980 Time: GMT + 2 Population: 12 293 953 (Official estimate, 1997) Cultural Split: Shona 76% Ndebele 18% small Black, European and Asian communities Languages: English, Sindebele Shona Currency: Zimbabwean Dollar ($Z) President: Robert Mugabe Money: Banking hours:...
This is a milestone... my first ever blog! And I chose the perfect subject for it… MY TRIP TO TAIPEI TO WATCH ARASHI CONCERTS!!! Ugh, for some reason, I do get random episodes of goose bumps when I think about it. Seriously. I wanted to write this con report mostly for personal use… so I can...
While Gucci Designer handbag shopping the delightful designs that I saw were simply outstanding. The Gucci designer handbags featured a wide selection of choices, and many were ornamented with glittering choices. The Spring Summer collection led the march to the counter, with the Cruise handbags...
It had been several days since the rain, and the biting cold was just starting to abate, so I took advantage of the late afternoon hours to ride up on the usual loop to Tilden Park above Berkeley. Of course, this is California, so "biting cold" means something like 45F. But today was great;...
So, here I am again, sitting at my desk working away the daylight hours. Here is where I will spend all weekend as well. There are pros and cons to this depending upon your point of view. It's really a mixed bag when I look at it. Sure I am at work a lot. Sure I don't get much done around the house....
I was going to email this out to someone specifically (I'm looking at you Jennie S-M) but then I thought it might be a good thing to open up to general discussion: It occurs to me that, despite, my oft antagonistic relationship with nature, it is a shame I have lived here for nearly 10 years and not...
I was out in California the week before last (August 3 - 12) to celebrate the launch of iWork '08. I got to spend some time with my friends Jason, Josh, and David, which was great. Trip Highlights: Friday night Jason picked me up at SFO and we headed straight to the Great American Music Hall to see...
My friend Mr. Pickle loves to send me on scavenger hunts. The first was in Paris and included such gems as: Kiss someone named Jean-Claude and Say to someone at the Orsay "Avez-vous remarquez l'audace de bleu dans cette peinture? (forgive my French -- I'm writing from memory)" Two weeks ago, Mr....
Neither Claire nor I had met the family with whom we were visiting. Claire had emailed them back and forth before our trip and over the last few days, to discuss our plans and arrange the logistics for our arrival. As Rick was going to pick us up at the airport, Claire called him that morning to...
Before our trip to SoCal I blogged a list of things I wanted to do so here's what I got to (almost everything!): *family -check *sunshine -check *the ocean -in Santa Barbara after a great lunch at the Chamomile Cafe in Carpinteria *Christmas -check *birthdays -check *new year -check *loads of raw...
Evidently, according to my pets, it's Lick Your Crotch Day. Why didn't anyone invite me? Why wasn't I invited? Bullshit I say. ;) Here are the pictures from Wicked I said I would post and never did (my bad, I put them on Facebook and consider it done. Mea culpa ;) Pre-show: Post-show, curtain call:...
It's been over a month since the party, and they've been gone for two weeks already but I just ahdn't gotten time to post about it yet. Alison, one of my oldest and dearest friends in the world, moved to Oakland, CA with her boyfriend Will just after labor day. Now I've known they were moving for AT...
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