I quite enjoy cooking when I get the chance, lately I've been making time to cook at home. Owing the fact that I had a couple pounds of ground beef in the freezer that I needed to use I noodled on what to make before finally arriving at meatloaf. I'd never made a meatloaf before and it's been years since I've actually consumed a meatloaf like ( Read more... )

Last night was a busy in a way I wasn't quite expecting. Humblewolf pinged me while I was work asking if I'd help him get his [race]car back home and I had to pick up my E30 from the shop. The mental plan had been to get my car, meet Humble, get his racecar from the shop, scoot to his place, then he was going give me a ride home. (Humble drove his racecar ( Read more... )

Yesterday I made the following comment about an emerging trend I see among EV drivers I know, primarily among my coworkers. Babbling that comment (and the short bit of why I was starting to feel that way) really deserves a longer bit of thought mongering, even for the ugly can of worms sitting patiently off to the side eagerly waiting to be opened ( Read more... )

New job. New company. Starting on 08/15/2011 if I can't get my start date bumped out by a week. (I should be able to. Should) Notice given at current gig this morning, last official day is the 12th. Since I won't even be in the state of California on the 12th it's a good bet I'll be playing hooky from work that last day ( Read more... )

Most airlines (Southwest included) have settled on a standard of 62 linear inches and 50 pounds for baggage size/weight without incurring extra fees. (Apart from whatever checked baggage fees the my have in the first place) A little math tells me that's a max volume of about 5 cubic feet. Into this space you have to fit the container itself and ( Read more... )

Today feels like a day to soak my head in the music of the 80's and to reminisce about my entry in the the world of fandom which, curiously, is also a memory from the 1980s. Mostly this is from a flurry of tweets that found their way to hand-held electro-tabulating wonder gizmo regarding a certain party down in Orange County over the weekend...

( 22 years ago... )

The near perfection of this morning's ride to work was notably tarnished when the ear-plug of my in-ear speakers broke off...while still in my ear canal. The first thing I did at work this morning was to spend a few minutes fishing around in my skull with a borrowed pair of needle nose pliers in hopes of extracting the yellow silicone rubber thing ( Read more... )

Antheria's home in Redondo Beach this year, the beautiful Best Western Sunrise Hotel. It's small but cozy with reasonably large guest rooms spread among three floors and event space above the dining area just off the lobby. You can see in this photo that the hotel is actually located directly next door to a power plant that has been partially ( Read more... )

On the way to a house warming party a few weeks ago I was pleasantly kind-of-but-not-really blind-sided by my passenger, sproutchk, expressing interest in me beyond typical friendship. It was one of the most pleasantly awkward moments I've ever experienced from the driver's seat of a sports car. On one hand I'd suspected this was going to happen but on the ( Read more... )

So, it's near(ish), it's new and it could be fun so I figured what the Hell, might as well go see what this whole Antheria thing is going to be about. Made my lodging arrangements a while a go, the travel arrangements have been much less definite but have pretty much included motorcycle as my prime mode of movement ( Read more... )