Electrolicious

I have made a crucial decision: it is a worthwhile sacrifice to make drastically less money if it means I can work in Venice.
Why is this? Two issues:
1. The only time I hate LA is when I have to get somewhere, therefore commuting daily would cause many bad hateful feelings. Example of anticipated internal dialogue: […]

Last week, I started seeing a whole new kind of spam on my PC. System messages like this one started showing up on my screen at strange times. They look like Windows systems messages, but they were always advertising something.
I ran the version of Ad Aware that I had installed on my machine, but it […]

Terra is in town from New York, and she and I and Amanda had a wee reunion.

Is that supposed to be me?
My blogging article is live on the Seattle Weekly’s site now. I miss my original dek: Lessons from the frontlines of blogging.

Something unusual has just happened.
A Seattle acquaintance named Tobe was diagnosed with biliary duct cancer last year. It was unsettling, since he was young and not at all in the prime demographic for that strain of cancer. Although he and I weren’t more than passing acquaintances, I donated to a fund to get Tobe […]

Clothing is meant to be constantly flowing. You’re not meant to purchase a garment and wear it until it falls off your body in rags. No! Clothes are meant to be passed around. I gave away bags of clothes when I moved, and I now realize that much of what I gave away were articles […]

I can smell the ocean right here from my home office. There are breezes from the beach all day every day, but it’s only so often that they actually smell like saltwater and sand.
I’m adapting to the Venice lifestyle. Since purchasing my bike, I’ve been going to the beach almost every afternoon. I spend the […]

Interesting hoop trivia: in general, right-handed hoopers spin counter-clockwise, lefties clockwise.
In other hoop news, I had a frightening experience yesterday. A guy ran up to me in the desert and asked if he could play with my hoop. I’d been loaning it out all morning, and was happy to pass it off to him. Then, […]

Well, can you believe that Andreas was the one who pushed for us to leave the desert today? He’s absolutely fixated on his Saturday afternoon soccer playing, and so he wanted to make sure we were back in Venice with plenty of time for him to nap before the game. We left around 11:30 this […]

As a moving gift, my old friend Ananda gave me a floppy disk to bring to Venice with me. It had pictures on it, she explained.
And oh, did it ever. Wonder what I looked like at my high school graduation? Wonder no longer! (Bonus points for the oh-so early ’90s scrunchie-on-wrist in the foreground of […]