the end of an era

I hadn’t been truly sick since July 4th weekend 2008.  After that trip to Disneyland with the late night water ride Sam and I both”came down with something.”  Making my Read more

Does this count as a staycation?

A long time ago I’d planned to go to Europe and visit friends this August.  Due to financial difficulties that plan was backtracked to visiting a national park and/or visiting Read more

another Friday night

Los Angeles ranked #7 on a list of global cities that was just released.  Curiously behind New York City (#1) and Chicago (#6, who organized the study… biased??).  I have no Read more

Art Walk August

I was going to this art walk by myself, so I decided to wait for the traffic to die down to make my way downtown.  Of course, this also meant Read more

Something’s Fishy

On Saturday, the 7th, I cleaned my room and, more importantly, the fish tank.  This was the first time I’d actually taken the tank out since putting it in the Read more

roomy

Here is a photo of “the studio” with the “sky pilot” painting in the foreground.  On the easel is another “astronaut” piece with a female “astronaut” descending into/onto some bright Read more

octopus culligan

Back in May my friend Garen asked me to work on a painting for his album (now likely an EP) that he’d complete before he moves to Michigan for UM’s engineering Read more

New old stuff

This past weekend a friend showed me how to get “xp mode” up and running in Windows 7.  It actually isn’t already in the install – you have to jump Read more