Tuna Melt returned for another run at the Muddy Buddy this year, albeit with a personnel change, as Sean stepped in for Brian, out due to injury this year. We ran a good race, I think; I know I felt better (or less awful, to be honest) than in previous years, probably because of my […]

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We had a pretty busy weekend here, with lots of our typical activities. On Saturday, I did my weekly long morning run, and we took in two new movies, The Invention of Lying — a funny idea, but not enough to sustain an entire film — and A Serious Man, which was a terrific, well-observed, […]

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I nabbed a couple of tickets to see Thom Yorke, Flea, Nigel Godrich, Joey Waronker, and Mauro Refosco (the only member of the bizarro supergroup I’d never heard of before) at the Orpheum last night. I was able to get rid of my extra ticket (to someone who’d driven up from San Diego in hopes […]

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We’re in the middle of another brief, enjoyable trip to Alaska. We all ran the Snow City 5k this morning, and followed it up with a tasty lunch at the Moose’s Tooth. We’ve spent the rest of the time seeing the new sights around town – the Museum downtown, a new beer bar out our […]

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I spent the weekend cleaning up the office, breaking in my new running shoes, and taking in a few exhibitions around town that would be closing soon. On Saturday, I visited the Central Library for the first time to see the exhibition of drawings by Richard Neutra. The show was terrific, and featured drawings of […]

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Or “Melt Tuna,” as we are in the picture. We did it two years ago, took a year off for injuries last year, and came back stronger than ever this time around. The whole thing felt better, since we were aware of how hilly the course was this time, and we were better matched, with […]

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My fourth and final trip to Alaska this year was another brief one, from Friday afternoon to Sunday afternoon, to help my dad celebrate an award he received from the Alaska Conservation Foundation on Friday night. It was an evening filled with inspiring stories about people going above and beyond to help preserve wild places, […]

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It almost felt a little crisp out on Friday morning, though when Aimee and I went hiking today, it was anything but chilly, so I guess calling summer over is a bit premature. We’ve been keeping busy, but happy to have a little more down time these days than during our hectic summer. Aimee had […]

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I spent Friday fielding questions about Gov. Palin at work; my office mate is from Delaware, so our room is VP Central. What a bizarre turn of events, seemingly getting more bizarre by the hour. We had a quiet Friday night, catching up on some more episodes of Mad Men, which gets better with each […]

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We don’t get a lot of visitors, so when someone comes down just to see us, we try to make it worth their while. Brent flew down from Seattle on Thursday night to spend a weekend built around seeing Radiohead on Monday, so I knew we didn’t have to do much to make the trip […]

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We had a really great weekend in Anchorage, with lots of good family time, fun with Scott cleaning out the basement (sounds fun, I know), a 5k race, and most importantly, a surprise dinner for my parents’ 40th anniversary that went off without a hitch. Aimee and I arrived late Thursday night, after a delightful […]

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After a whole bunch of time out of town (did we really spend four weekends in a row in airports? Yes we did), we got back in the L.A. swing of things this weekend, with a couple of days filled with only-in-L.A. stuff. We started off the weekend with a screening of Wall*E, finally, at […]

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I posted a few tidbits from Hawaii over the past week, so this will be a brief catalog of our week, with photos. It was a terrific trip, a once-in-a-lifetime week of comfort zone-expanding activities (surfing, parasailing, snorkeling, ziplining), relaxation (in the pool or the ocean every day), lots of great food and quality time […]

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We finally went to the Rose Bowl Flea Market yesterday, a once a month event in the parking lot surrounding “the most famous stadium in the world,” as someone said as we were walking in. We picked up Brian and had breakfast at Mike & Anne’s, delicious once again – and we saw two middle-aged […]

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We got more done this morning before noon than usually happens in an entire weekend: rose at 5:00, out the door to Agoura Hills at 5:30, in time for a 7:00 am half marathon. It was a great race, about half on pavement and half on trails, with a couple of nasty uphills and some […]

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