A Fork in the Road
As we roll into day 30 of National Blog Posting Month and Nanopoblano, I find myself surprised to have completed the entire month. When Rara asked me in late October to participate, I initially said...
View ArticlePeter Dinklage and I Have One Thing In Common
I never really gave much thought to the place where I was born. I’ve only been there twice. The first time is when I was born, before I went home to the family home in nearby Livingston. The second...
View ArticleSo this is what having free time is like.
I meant to keep writing on a more regular basis, but the first half of December has been absolutely ridiculous. I moved out of my apartment with Amelie’s help, and Thursday was the final day at Mr....
View ArticleKnaus Berry Farm (or we waited almost an hour to have a snack and it was...
Look, I know it’s been two months since my last post and you’re probably wondering where I went and what the heck happened. I’ll get to that, I promise. That’s not what this post is about, though....
View ArticleWhasaaaaaaaap?
I apologize for using a seventeen year old commercial as my subject line, but it’s kind of appropriate. It feels like it’s been at least that long since I really posted anything, not counting that one...
View ArticleSleep. Now. *
At about 1:30 in the morning, I was still awake. At around 1:30 in the morning, I’m almost always awake. I track my sleep with the Fitbit on my wrist- it’s not a perfect tracker, but it does a...
View Article[#AtoZChallenge] A is for Afterward.
On Thursday night, people who had worked at my previous Mr. Company all gathered together in a bar for a happy hour. The last happy hour. I say the last one because we were let go in waves. The first...
View Article[#AtoZChallenge] B is for Bungalow
I’ve been looking for a new place to live. To recap, my last lease ended on the 9th of December. I knew that my employment with Previous Mr. Company was ending on the 15th of December, but sixty days...
View Article[#AtoZChallenge] C is for Cookie!
I have a sweet tooth. I like cakes and chocolate and pastries of all kinds. There’s one type of sweet that will always be my favorite, though. As anyone who knows me really well could tell you, I...
View Article[#AtoZChallenge] D is for Decamp
The A to Z challenge will not be completed by me this year. I’m finding that my attention is split between too many other things. I came to this conclusion after I spent forty minutes trying to come...
View ArticleStar Wars Celebration Orlando
This past weekend, Amelie and I went to Orlando for Star Wars Celebration 2017. Long-time readers of this blog will remember that back in the summer of 2013, I managed to attend Star Wars Celebration...
View ArticleSongbirds
There’s a bird that chirps all night long here, in varying tones like one of those car alarms from the 1990s. It’s infuriating and I hear it every night, whenever I try to sleep. I hear it less in the...
View ArticleThat time my car got stolen.
I was telling Amelie recently about the time my car got stolen. In the summer of 1998, I had been at UCF for about six months, and I was still driving a fairly new 1997 Honda Civic. The ’97 Civic was...
View ArticleLove is love is love is love.
Since the last time I posted on the blog, I moved from South Florida up to Orlando. I meant to do a whole post about the transition up here, but this is not that post. This post is about the...
View ArticleBob’s Burgers Live, and the Los Angeles Intro.
Up until the middle of this month, I’d never set foot in Los Angeles, not counting layovers. When I found out a few months back that Bob’s Burgers was doing a live show, I could not resist. I bought...
View ArticleLos Angeles 2: Electric Boogaloo
While my first Los Angeles post was about Saturday night, most of what I’m including in this post took place on Friday. We had arrived on Thursday night, and after a bit of sleep, we were ready to go...
View ArticleLa Brea Tar Pits and Museum
On the Saturday of our LA trip, Amelie and I headed from downtown Los Angeles over to La Brea, because we wanted to see the Tar Pits. This was one of the few places in our plans that public...
View ArticleHollywood and Vine
This is the fourth of seven Los Angeles posts, so we’re halfway done! This is also the most touristy of all the posts, because everything in Hollywood is geared toward tourism. Even the Metro station...
View ArticleLong Beach, Rarasaur, The Queen Mary, Milk, and Metro
On the third day of our Los Angeles visit, we took the Los Angeles Metro all the way out to Long Beach. The whole ride took a little bit less than an hour, and once we got off the train, we went to a...
View ArticleMadame Tussaud’s Hollywood
Are you still with me? We only have two posts left from the Los Angeles trip, and these last two are pretty fun. Whenever I wind up in a Tussaud’s wax museum, hilarity ensues. With little...
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