Category: Life

I was thinking. I’m scared buttless of flying yet I spend a lot of time in airports. Is that ironic? A list of airports I’ve been in but not flown in or out of:OHare (Chicago): During road trip in the late 90s to pick up a friendLogan (Boston): Picking up various people arriving for my [...]

I’ve been on a medication for about 8 or 9 months now whose chief side effect is “cravings for simple starches and sugars.” Oh, dear. As a result, I gained about 15 pounds. By the beginning of the year I decided enough was enough and decided to watch what I eat and exercise more. This [...]

I just got a spam. OK, that’s nothing even sort of interesting. This particular spam was one of those relatively legitimate looking ones that makes you kind of think: I wonder what these jerks’ angle is, anyway. It involved some sort of promotion entangling Peanut M&M’s with a free gas card giveaway. Right. There was [...]

Confession: I actually kind of totally hate running. Several years ago I “dealt” with that and ran consistently for about 18 months. Finally, after a couple of really unpleasant foot injuries, I called it quits. My problems with running are numerous. First, even when consciously thinking about it, I have an elemental problem with pace. [...]

The New Fred Meyer on Interstate on Lombard Originally uploaded by lyzadanger. This photo by yours truly got featured on BoingBoing yesterday: Link to post on BoingBoing. I feel honored. And I don’t really care if people compare it to the Gursky photograph.

Our house is just an enigma begging to be unraveled. I guess that’s par for the course in a house in this location, of such age (built 1890 or thereabouts), etc. Perhaps I have not mentioned that many people, despite conflicting zoning, have used the house for commercial endeavors. Our block is the closest block [...]

Oh, hell no. After my run last night the inside edge of my left knee was sore, and in the next few hours it got worse such that it really hurts to go up and down hills or stairs, or get up from sitting. Sleeping was really sore when I moved my knee after it [...]

Ugh. I’m so irritated. This week’s idiocy chez moi happened on trash day. David put our recycling and trash by the curb, but during the night someone ripped open a bag of trash from the trash can and dumped it in the bag with our glass recyclables. Thus of course the trash people didn’t take [...]

This morning on the way to work I passed a spot of fresh blood about six inches in diameter, with a few drip marks heading away from it. It didn’t look good, but it didn’t look fatal. This stands in contrast to the pool of blood I encountered once on a Friday or Saturday night [...]

A dull topic, admittedly, but this morning’s weather is a bit unusual. It’s cold and foggy, but it’s doing something I haven’t seen before. During my walk to work, it seemed te be raining, but only in certain spots. There were clumps of large drops and lines of them along the sidewalk. After a few [...]