Biking the John Wayne Iron Horse Trail

Sometimes, when you head for the great outdoors, nothing goes right. Your body is a bit sluggish, maybe from not enough breakfast or not enough sleep. You never quite warm up. You don’t have the right clothes and you end up always feeling a little chilled around the edges. Your sandwich gets squished at the …


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Fish Wednesday, Blue Angels

I ate a huge lunch yesterday, so Fish Wednesday was scaled back to a nice, refreshing tuna salad featuring mixed greens, capers, and tomatoes. It was dressed with little pumpkin seed oil, balsamic, and salt. — It’s SeaFair this weekend, and that means the Blue Angels. God help me I hate the Blue Angels. Go …


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E-I-E-I-O

Or, How you gonna go back to ol’ Paree once you’ve been down on the farm? Lisa asked me if I’d like to tag along with her and Seth to visit the CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) farm they support She reckoned it was a good place for a person like me to wander around with …


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Thoughts about BlogHer, which I did not attend.

Note: If you weren’t involved with BlogHer in some way, skip this post. I’m not kidding. You’re totally not going to get this and you’ll find it boring. Seriously, click away. Read this old post about luggage instead. Or just scroll down the page.

The rest of you, if you’re really interested…


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The Scottish Highland Games

Do a little dance… make a little love… get down tonight! More pictures here of burly dudes in skirts kilts hurling heavy things, folks of all sizes pounding on stuff and blowing into other stuff, and plaid, plaid, and more plaid. And Knox has a nice write up of our day out here. [tags]Scottish Highland …


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Mod Cons

Pro tip: That note on your dishwasher about what kind of soap to put in it? Read it.