Spent a nice Labor Day relaxing on the beach in Santa Monica. It was the first time I had actually gone to the beach to relax since I had moved down to L.A. over three years ago. I’ve been on the beach, just not taking-my-shoes-off-and-going-into-the-water on the beach. When I was a wee tyke, one of my fondest memories was hanging out at the beach…
September 4, 2002Quite the parade of the stars at Disneyland. On Thursday we had both D.L. Hughley and Jamie Foxx on the Matterhorn within 10 minutes of each other. One has to wonder if they were together or if there was some WB promo going on somewhere. Also on Thursday, Jim paid a visit from Northern CA. He was down in the area visiting some relatives out…
August 31, 2002After much bemoaning and general laziness and procrastination, I have finally finished porting the Daily Update into Movable Type. It is not 100% where I want it to be, but I think it is good enough to get the ball rolling. The biggest issues I have (and maybe there are some people out there who can help me) are: 1) Permalinks – I haven’t quite…
August 28, 2002Apparently, this month is destined to be the month of anemic update entries. I am not sure why it has been slow. I think part of it is the lack of anything exciting or interesting to say (not that any of the entries are really that exciting to more than 5 or 6 of you out there). What can I do? August has been a…
August 27, 2002The month keeps zipping along. It truly is the dog days of summer. Even though the weather seems to be more like June here than August, the attitude of August is in full force. It is that “School is around the corner, but my brain is still on vacation” feel – even though I am not in school. I finally managed to get my defunct…
August 22, 2002As visit Josh week continues, Joe, Jody and Noah made their way up to visit the sites of LA and Beverly Hills. I had the chance to drive their new 2002 Honda Odyssey, which still is the best minivan on the market today. Joe has installed a DVD entertainment system into the van which triggered some serious consumer lust. There is nothing worse than having…
August 16, 2002This week it has been visit Josh week. In the middle of last week I was visited by Mom and Gary who had my grandparents from Northern California in tow. We met up for a bit at their hotel and went out to eat at Art’s Delicatessen in Studio City. On my way to see them, I ran into the Sprint PCS guy sans trench…
August 14, 2002Thanks to Mandel’s suggestion on his site, I picked up Abba – The Definitive Collection on DVD. I spent most of Friday night going over the Lasse Halstrom directed videos and laughing myself silly. Some of them were bad, some were “Oh my God what were they thinking!” and buried in there were a few gems like “Mamma Mia” and “Money, Money Money”. Spent Saturday…
August 5, 2002It’s been a week, so let me try and catch up on things that have been going on: I managed to catch Austin Powers in Goldmember last Thursday. I thought it was pretty funny, some parts were pee-in-the-pants funny while some parts were just “uh yeah, ok, that one must be for Mike’s friends”. I do wonder if they have painted themselves into a corner…
July 31, 2002Thanks to Ricky (the best former Disneyland CM ever!), who verified that it was broke, I fixed the Club Josh guest book. My guess is that Lycos decided to change the form parameters sometime in June and didn’t bother to tell anyone. So if you tried to post, go ahead and give it a try again. Today it is off to Grandma’s house I go…
July 24, 2002