Water on Mars! WATER ON MARS! I am such a geek. Oh, and the alien in my eye also hatched today. The corner of my eye by my nose is still swollen and red but virtually painless at this point.  Yeah, tear duct infection turned out to be more of the infection of my eyelid by the same alien that used to live in my nose, it seemed. Let me see how many times I have been on antibiotics this year. There’s the the original nose alien in January, but I actually didn’t go to the doctor for that. ...
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When you’re only one story off the ground. Was watching So You Think You Can Dance when it felt like a giant just tapped the house with his toes….or a Hummer just ran into our building. It was a THUD that moved the couch and the window at the same time. No swaying or anything. Enough already with the shaking!...
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Earthquake! 5.8 magnitude in Chino Hills. We were all rocking and rolling all over the 34th floor over here. Not so much of the nervousness, but motion sick. Felt like I was on a boat. Twitter reports from Long Beach. Family reports in from all over So Cal. Verizon is out. AT&T is out. My office phone I can’t even use. Fun. Oh, and yeah. I’m okay. I did run over to the stand in the doorway. Apparently I was the only one doing that…...
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Master Greg and his friends joined Brandon and I last night out on the hard stone grounds of the Orange County Performing Arts Center for “The Muppet Movie” under the stars. The movie was free, however the parking was $8 a car. Brandon and I had to drive separately so it wasn’t too “free” for us. But if I didn’t leave early like I did, we wouldn’t have any place to sit down. And thanks to a tip on Yelp, we did bring enough cushioning to sit comfortably for the hard floor. The grounds was packed with both outer and...
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When you try your best but you don’t succeed When you get what you want but not what you need When you feel so tired but you can’t sleep Stuck in reverse. And the tears come streaming down your face When you lose something you can’t replace When you love someone but it goes to waste Could it be worse? Lights will guide you home And ignite your bones And I will try to fix you And high up above or down below When you’re too in love to let it go But if you never try you’ll never know...
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After constituting a Friday blog ritual last week, I promptly forgot about it, naturally. Fear not. Here it is....
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