Morro Bay day 1

Long day. I was up at 4 am eastern time. My flight to LAX left ontime and was uneventful. We even got in a little early. I picked up my rental car from Hert and headed to the Santa Monica office to visit some friends there. I spent about an hour there and then headed [...]

Trip-prep

Went out for drinks with Kelly after work, which was a lot of fun, so I just got home a little while ago and I now have to wait for the laundry to run so that I have clothes to take with me to Morro Bay tomorrow. I’m getting up at 4 AM so it’s [...]

And it’s the Yanks over the Red Sox, 5-0

Can you say SWEEP!

Long Labor Day weekend

I’m already looking forward to my long Labor Day weekend, which starts tomorrow. I have a 6:30 AM flight to LAX, followed by a 3 hour-ish drive up to Morro Bay. I’ll be spending just about 3 full days with Dan and Megan and I can’t wait. The last time I saw them was nearly [...]

Bring your own bagels

From now on, I’m bringing my own bagels for breakfast. Ever since Au Bon Pan reopened downstairs, they have been incredibly stingy with the cream cheese. It costs $0.99 for a bagel and $1.00 for cream cheese, and they barely put any on. I asked for extra cream cheese once, and they tried to charge [...]

Nightfall

Just home from work and sitting in the mail were the November issue of ANALOG and the October/November issue of ASIMOV’S. As good as these magazines usually are, ASIMOV’S has a very special treat in this issue. They’ve reprinted Isaac Asimov’s famous story, “Nightfall”. In part, this is because it’s the 30th anniversary of the [...]

If you were stuck on a desert island…

…for twenty years and all you had for entertainment were the complete works of ten authors, who would those authors be. (I came across this interesting question on

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Yankee baseball!

Well, the Yankees/Red Sox game is not on TV tonight, but once the sun went down here, I was able to clearly pick up 880 AM in New York so I can listen to the game!

Writing and reading

Fairly busy day at work today and I even managed to knock some things off my next actions lists, so I feel slightly accomplished. I feel even more accomplished on the writing front. I just finished another 700 words of “If By Reason of Strength…” (bringing the total to 1,200 words) and it still feels [...]

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