My Favorite Things…

The last couple weeks, I've been a grump. Not a big grump, but just enough for me to know that I was a grump (I'm sure others noticed it too). When I get like this, I get silent and invisible. Not a good thing when you are trying to have some level of online presence …

Important Stuph…

Yesterday, a friend of mine asked me to go walking. I really didn't want to, cuz I'd have to drive a long way, I'd get there late, blah, blah, blah, but I reluctantly consented. While I was driving there, I suddenly realized something that totally bummed me out... my favorite tv shows were on that …

What I did on the day the world ended…

It's 7:28pm. According to a numerologist, the Rapture and beginning of the great Tribulation should have happened about 90 minutes ago. There was no great earthquake which was supposed to be the big sign, and no reports of the faithful disappearing all over the world. I could use this post to theorize on the whole …

In Praise of Older Things…

Ok, I admit it. I am a technogeek. I've always loved technology, progressive stuph, newer, better faster, etc. I'm a Boomer only by age, but more of a Buster and X-er in personality. I jumped on the online bandwagon with Xanga, then Myspace, Facebook, Twitter, and of course, Kid Stuph. I love new stuph... However, …

I am more than I am…

I had dinner with a friend of mine the other day at Bistro Boudin, a delightful place right on Fisherman's Wharf in San Francisco. While the Dungeness Crab Cake sandwich was good, the Apple "Upside Down" Sourdough Bread Pudding was, in a word, orgasmic. The food, however, was not the main thing I took away …