We enjoyed a really nice weekend with my parents in Seattle for Thanksgiving, punctuated on Sunday by a rainy, windy run through the city in the Seattle Marathon. I got my first chance to engage in that age-old Dad tradition, watching a parade while your kid sits on your shoulders. It felt good. We enjoyed […]

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Once again, Grace accompanied us to the Amherst Association of Southern California’s gathering for the annual Amherst/Williams game. This time, it was downtown at the cavernous ESPNZone, which provided plenty of visual stimulation for Grace. She was suitably dressed as a little Lord Jeff, with purple pants, a frilly white shirt, and gray sweater. We […]

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The L.A. Rock ‘n Roll Half Marathon fit nicely into my training schedule, sandwiched between two 20 mile runs this month, so I signed up for it and hoped to get some good pacing practice out of it. I figured I wouldn’t try too hard, but of course, it’s a race, and I ended up […]

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We have a long family history in Colorado, but since Grandma passed away and dad’s childhood home was sold, we’ve had fewer reasons to return as a family. My dad’s high school reunion and the fact that Aimee and Grace hadn’t met much of our extended family in the area was a good excuse to […]

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I described Steve Jobs to someone yesterday as having had the most influence on my life of someone I’d never met. I think that’s fair to say, considering all of the various parts of my life that have been touched by his work, starting back in the early ’80s when we got our first Apple […]

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We took Grace on her second trip to Alaska, and her first during the summer, over Labor Day Weekend. She had a good time seeing both my family and Aimee’s (visiting on vacation), and also discovered the world of stairs, since our house has none and my parents’ place has many. She took right to […]

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We took ownership of a new car this week, a 2012 Golf TDI. It’s the first new car I’ve ever owned and the first car Aimee and I have bought together, but it’s not the first Volkswagen our family has owned. In fact, if I did the math right, it’s actually the tenth VW owned […]

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This past weekend marked the fifth anniversary of our move to Los Angeles. It’s hard to believe this is now the place I’ve lived longer than anywhere since Alaska, and that I’ve had my current job longer than any other in my life. But here we are, with a house, a kid, and five years […]

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It’s been an eventful summer so far. We spent much of July looking forward to and preparing for Grace’s first birthday party. We had guests coming in from out of town, we had the backyard to prepare, we had “Carmageddon” to worry about… and then there was the photobooth. More than two years ago, I’d […]

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I spent a three-day weekend in New York City last week, which was a nice chance to see friends, catch some theater, explore the new High Line, and see a couple of movies. I was there to introduce a screening of Upstream (which got a nice write-up on the New Yorker blog), and had some […]

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We enjoyed a brief weekend in Las Vegas at the beginning of the month, Grace’s first trip there and a nice chance to see her Grandma and Grandpa and for Aimee and I to enjoy a fancy dinner on our own. Grace enjoyed going in a swimming pool for the first time, and Aimee and […]

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My fourth annual Movie Week was a fairly balanced affair, between smaller and larger theaters, between ones I’d visited before and ones I hadn’t, and between the east and west sides of the city. I finally got around to a few of the Santa Monica theaters I’d never visited before, explored how the Arclight brand […]

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AMC Avco Thor Wednesday, 5/11/11, 7:00 pm Price: $14.50 ($11.50 + a $3 surcharge for 3-D, outrageous) Concessions: Red Vines, mmm. Audience: 15 people, in a theater that seats about 500. Trailers/advertising: Lots. The inevitable “First Look” junk, including a behind-the-scenes for The Smurfs in which everyone involved looked like they were having their teeth […]

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Culver Plaza Theatres The Adjustment Bureau Tuesday, 5/10/11, 7:25 pm Price: $8.00 Concessions: None Audience: five people, in a theater that seats about 150. Trailers/advertising: A series of out-of-focus and off-center trivia slides, followed by trailers for Cat Run, Hanna, Beginners, and Paul. Projection: 35mm platter, slightly out of focus and dark I’ve only been […]

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