These beauties came in last week, and Kristina and I put a bunch of them together over the weekend. 50 are being shipped out in various ...

Last night I went to a very weird "show" with Amber, called a " gong bath ." It was presented by an Australian couple. T...

... and maybe this can count as Saturday's post, as it's well after midnight now. I was just turning out the light and getting into ...

Alison and I went to see a really great dance performance tonight by a group called Liquid Loft. The piece was titled "Running Sushi,...

I got some bad news at work today. It looks like my dream job may not be such a dream anymore, as it's about to have half of another per...

I have full dental coverage at work now, so I finally went to get my teeth cleaned today for the first time in about six years. Ironically, ...

Psychic Fair have started having weekly jam sessions on Tuesday nights. I just got home from one, and it's super late, so no trip to Wor...

We have a new advice columnist at what passes for a newspaper in this city, The Chronicle Herald . She's surprisingly readable. I've...

As well as being the first day of fall, today was also the last day of softball. Very symbolic. Here's Dave "Snowy" strik...

I just found out today about this kind of awesome record from 1964. It's a spoken-word recording of a guy talking in his sleep. It ...

Hey, the November issue of the Shambhala Sun is available online now. You can check it out here , although it costs money to actually downl...

OK, I'm figuring out that I'm just not going to keep this blog going at all unless I make some kind of commitment to it I can actual...

As usual, so much to fill you in on and so few drugs to keep me awake long enough. There was a week-long trip to Maine with Alison, meeting ...

Hey, wow, this non-blogging phase has really gone on long enough, eh? I guess I got a bit overwhelmed, first by profound disappointments and...

And now my Macbook laptop is officially dead. I had brought it to the cottage on the weekend for music and movies, and when I brought it ...

Buster was acting very old and tired lately, and getting really skinny. This morning I found him sleeping in his litter box, very unresponsi...

The people I'm renting a cottage with this weekend do not.

Natural haiku: the sound of wind in new leaves means only itself.

I think I'm really hitting my stride on these things. Thank you, CS6!

In the interest of fairness, here's a nice recent photo of Amber, who came off a bit stubborn and unreasonable a couple of posts back. ...