Monthly Archives: March 2011

Me: “We can get two Creekside Queens,” Doug: “We ARE two Creekside Queens.” The refusal of the route south of Big Sur to stop mud from sliding onto its thoroughfare has resulted in a most unexpected turn of events discovery, thanks to several industrious and well-traveled friends I have on Facebook. As we were stranded […]

At the Canary Hotel in Santa Barbara, typing away while my boys sleep. We’re in a bit of a holding pattern here, awaiting word as to whether we can proceed with our scheduled plan to journey north to Big Sur. Right now, due to the recent rains, the roads north and south out of Big […]

“Why was she a brat?” “Oh, she was awful. Eat that bacon in your hand, I’ll tell you.” “Well?” “Her name was… Veronica something…” “Veruca Salt.” “VERUCA. Yes. Horrid girl. Spoiled spoiled spoiled. She wanted to have everything she saw. And she walked in a room and saw these squirrels. Trained squirrels…” “What could they […]

All right, so most of you have seen this youtube video, right?: It’s a rant by an unfortunately-clad student at UCLA. Head-shaking, but not terribly shocking. She’d be right at home taking Tea with certain political sects. Lots of uproar at UCLA followed, with the Chancellor decrying the video and many youtube viewers wanting to […]

“How weary, stale, flat and unprofitable  seem to me all the uses of this world…” Though I’d like to attribute tonight’s insomnia to my lack of app game playing (almost a week, folks!) it’s more likely the bronchial infection currently invading my airspace (yes, I’m on antibiotics). I haven’t been able to notice any difference […]

I told my sister (and fellow user) Sue that I was into day 4 of laying off digital games, and she was amazed. “Are you giving it up for Lent?” she asked. Damn, it is that time of the year. I was just going to see how long I could manage it, but here before […]

Okay, I had insomnia all last night—can I blame that on my not playing app games? My second day of cold turkey. No discernible difference in my day, though I seemed to move more efficiently from point A to point B. The day seemed to drag a bit, but maybe that was the zombie effect […]

All right, so I’ve gone a day without playing any games but NYT Crossword. The only way I got through it was that I knew I wanted to post something on the blog today (public judgement as incentive). How was my day? Did I get more done? Yes… worked on taxes, got a few minutes […]

I’m in big trouble. There’s a rickety edifice barely standing before me, all plywood boards and stone. Some of it has already come crashing down. Shards of glass and wood are scattered on the ground. I’m hoping the whole thing will just topple over, but by some aberration of physics, the structure holds. Those dirty […]