I seem to have developed a thing for trying to save scrawny trees. When I had such a notion last spring, near where I work at SF’s Civic Center, it met an ignoble end.
Sometime earlier this summer there was a fire in the old campground out on the former naval air station, where I walk the pups. The kids sometimes party [...]
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Scorched Flora & Snatched Fauna
Posted in animals, dogs, gardening, life, pets, photography, walking on November 1, 2009 | 3 Comments »
A Big Blow
Posted in gardening, life, nature, photography on October 27, 2009 | 6 Comments »
Mrs. Ombud and I were watching a movie (Little Fish, I think) when the phone rang. We don’t always pick up during a movie, figuring they’ll leave a message if it’s important, but when I heard my next door neighbor’s voice I hit pause and got the phone. He was talking about some large branch that [...]
Obviously confused, sometimes sunk
Posted in life, technology, writing on October 27, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Despite the fact that I’ve worked for a computer book publisher and a technical media organization (jobs I approached as editor and journalist, respectively), I’ll be the first to admit that I don’t always grok the bells and whistles.
But I thought I had a pretty firm handle on email, and how it works, and a [...]
A Strangely Jolly Commute this Morning
Posted in commute, culture, entertainment, humor, life, travel on August 26, 2009 | 3 Comments »
I did the casual carpool this morning. For those outside the SF Bay Area, the casual carpool is a way to reduce congestion during rush hour. I think it’s primarily in the East Bay (across San Francisco Bay from the City), rather than down the peninsula or in Marin county, but they may have it [...]
Various and Asundry and Asides on a Sunday
Posted in animals, dogs, gardening, life, pets, photography on August 24, 2009 | 4 Comments »
We’re getting ready to leave town, which means my life is once again a half-baked scramble to do a to-do list before it to-does to me.
Hitting the Road
Posted in e-scrapbook, life, love, travel on July 11, 2009 | 3 Comments »
They’re an odd trio now, clumped out on the curb, reminders of other times and incarnations, ready to be hauled off somewhere.
Finding out my adrenal gland still works
Posted in beer, humor, life, thoughts on June 10, 2009 | 5 Comments »
I was bottling some India pale ale on our back deck this weekend, busy filling the bottles before I cap them, when I found out that my adrenal gland still works.
The Phone Call with StubHub
Posted in baseball, entertainment, life, rants, sports, technology, travel on May 24, 2009 | 3 Comments »
I spoke to Ms. Norberg, of StubHub.
The new desk, and a new view
Posted in commute, life, photography on April 29, 2009 | 8 Comments »
So, I’m sitting at a new desk at work. I don’t know how long I’ll be there, although the powers that be have moved my computer down to the new office, which is on the opposite corner of our block from where I used to work. It might be a matter of weeks, or months [...]
Moving
Posted in commute, life, travel on April 10, 2009 | 9 Comments »
I’m re-locating at work next week. Rather, I’m sort of straddling two desks.
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