Random ramblings from a curmudgeon spanning two millenia.
For those of you out there that don’t follow our sister site, Wizard’s Touch Designs, you may not have seen that Snowball posted a gallery of photos from the recent California trip. Check out the hundred or so photos here.
As I often say to Snowball, this “Getting Old” thing sucks but its better than the alternative. The aches and pains really make everything a challenge some days. But I’m working on a third choice. When I sleep I leave my neck exposed so that any passing vampires have more than an even chance. […]
All discussions aside about a lame duck president no longer having to bow to political pressure and finally being able to do the right thing, I think the renaming of ex-Mt. McKinley is awesome. It seemed kinda stupid when you think about it that a mountain in Alaska is named for an Ohio politician. […]
This is the fifth ( and last ) part of a mostly true serialization. Embellishments have been used to emphasize the facts. Descriptive elements have been used in lieu of names to protect everyone’s right to privacy.
During breakfast the next day, we wondered about how to get back to San Francisco, the airport and what time we needed to be there. The Coed pulls out her ever-present phone and starts doing web searches to get some answers. […]
This is the fourth part of a mostly true serialization. Embellishments have been used to emphasize the facts. Descriptive elements have been used in lieu of names to protect everyone’s right to privacy.
I could have stayed at Crescent City for the entire week, even longer but as I never saw any ‘Help Wanted’ signs, the next morning I join our group to head south to Yosemite.
Our planned course was to take the shortest route to Interstate 5. We figure this had to be the least squiggly, and most direct to Sacramento. There we would cut off to Sonora where we had room reservations. […]