Happily, the replacement lawn mower worked. By the time I got to the front lawn yesterday, most of the grass was a good nine inches tall and some of the neighbors were no doubt wondering if we’d abandoned the house.… Continue Reading
It’s been about three weeks since the rain stopped and the grass started to grow again. The lawn service that we hired has not come back, probably because they weren’t paid, which was because they didn’t sent me an invoice… Continue Reading
“Let’s go walk to McDonald’s and get sundaes.” Thus did The Wife proposition me early this afternoon. You can address the cognitive dissonance of a walk to McDonald’s to get ice cream as a form of exercise at your leisure.… Continue Reading
Tomorrow, there will be three hours of argument in California’s consolidated same-sex marriage case before the Supreme Court. As longtime readers know, I don’t see any reason why gay people should not be able to get married and I do… Continue Reading
We lost power today at about 10:30 and didn’t get it back for about two hours. In Tennessee, that would have most likely been because of a rainstorm downing a power line. Alternatively, it would have been caused by some… Continue Reading
My kids on the mock trial team have their first round of competition tonight. They are on the prosecution side of this year’s case, against last year’s championship team. The seeding arrangements are quite complex, but the upshot is that… Continue Reading
Yesterday, The Wife and I took a day trip to Santa Barbara. I came away from the experience unsatisfied and unrefreshed. I think I underestimated the toll that the just over 100-mile drive would take on me. I’d wanted to… Continue Reading
Today, I watched Chinatown with a movie club. What a great movie that was. Every detail fits nicely into place. The movie club analyzes the movies from a psychological perspective, and more specifically from a Freudian perspective. But I have… Continue Reading
Wow. Where have I been? I thought I knew Los Angeles. I thought I knew about all sorts of quirks. I mean, I can point out where Gorky’s used to be, from forty-six stories up on the Aon Tower, and… Continue Reading
Looking at the election returns this morning, I note that most of my sources have not distributed many delegates from California yet. But a look at the Fish Wrapper’s graphic illustration of county-by-county returns tells a couple of interesting stories… Continue Reading