It has been six months in the new apartment, and I finally decided to ante up for another year. One of the things about my apartment that I have not been happy with is my thermostat. The timer inside the little box is so loud, that since I moved in, I have slept with my bedroom door closed to stifle the sound. When I was…
September 3, 2003As I have mentioned many times in the last few weeks I was very excited to get a new digicam. Lately, I have been unhappy with the photos being produced by my old Olympus D400 Zoom from 1999. I think the first set of pictures I was really disappointed with were my Europe pictures from last November. Back then, I had chalked it up to…
August 27, 2003It’s been a busy and exhausting week. This week marks the end of summer at the resort, and also something of a transition for me. The powers that be have decided that cast members should be assigned an area of the park and only work in that area. They used to run things like this in the pre-Pressler era at the park, and just to…
August 26, 2003I can’t really explain why I wanted to go to Monument Valley and Four Corners. As a geographer tho, it is something you have to do. You can’t deny it, it is in your blood. Like anything that you obsess about for weeks at a time, the whole experience there was surreal. Four Corners did not disappoint, and Monument Valley, tho smaller than I had…
August 20, 2003I’m off for a few days to visit the family in Phoenix. I have hit them exactly right in the middle of a cooling trend. The highs are only in the upper 90’s. Earlier in the week, the temps were over 110. Wee. It’s my first trip out yonder in almost two years. It’s hard to believe, it feels like I was just there. I…
August 15, 2003I agonized over it for several days, but in the end, I decided that even if I did have $3500, I have better things to spend it on than being Governor of California. Besides, I don’t think I could find 60-70 people that would sign a petition to get me on the ballot. I am all for populist voter revolts, but it seems to me…
August 12, 2003Since I relocated to Orange County, my only real traffic beef has been that cursed light at Westminster and Newhope that takes forever if you miss it. This week, I have gained proper perspective on how silly my traffic woes are. I have been working at my dad’s work in South Central Los Angeles for a couple days this week. I notice that I am…
August 7, 2003I have finally gotten around to working on the Gorn galleries which have been in a state of migration and disrepair for the better part of a year. The Gorn Page was a guinea pig for the Gallery program, but as with any test, I got halfway through it and decided that it wasn’t working exactly the way that I wanted. So I left it…
July 31, 2003It looks like my trip to Arizona next month might be full of good Gorn picture opportunities. I told my mom that when I came out there that I wanted to do something fun and exciting. After much back and forth, we decided on trying to drive to one of my oft-desired destinations: Four Corners! I remember we wanted to play Twister there back in…
July 29, 2003It’s official. After much promising and procrastination, me and my friends finally committed to going to Walt Disney World at the end of September. It will be the first time I have gone on vacation with a group of friends since Dome to Dome – I hope this group fares better. (A-V Day wasn’t a vacation – it was a party!) We will be staying…
July 26, 2003