As fun as it was to travel, see family and friends, and get away for a bit, it’s nice to be back in California after a week on the east coast, where it’s definitely still winter, or merely early spring. I’ve been assimilated, finally, I guess. Anyway, last Friday night, Aimee and I took off […]

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A quick rundown of the weekend, as we’re already into another busy week and I can’t seem to keep up: first, dinner at Simon LA as part of Dine LA week, which made the pricey restaurant somewhat more affordable, and made for a nice evening out. Saturday morning we walked around Castellammare (Walking L.A. tour […]

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It’s been that long since we moved, officially, and it’s funny how quickly you get used to a new place. I haven’t been past our old apartment once, aside from the time I met our landlady to pass off the old keys. We had a nice weekend here, and it was nice to be in […]

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It’s been radio silence on the blog for a few weeks after the move and the trip to Portland. Now we’re back in town, getting settled in, and wondering why we still have no internet at home. I’ve been rendered speechless by frustration at Time Warner, and when Aimee says she feels the same way, […]

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Five weeks to the marathon: time for a new pair of shoes.

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Last Friday night, we saw a taping of “A Prairie Home Companion” at the Greek, which was my fourth PHC show, I think, dating back more than 20 years now. It was odd that it wasn’t on a Saturday night (or afternoon) for live broadcast, but Keillor explained that they no longer asked LA audiences […]

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It’s hard to believe it’s been ten years since leaving college, which means fourteen since we started, but so it is, and so it was time for our tenth class reunion. I took two days off work and headed to New York City to carpool up to Amherst together. I got into New York early […]

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We spent Saturday afternoon at some friends of Aimee’s from school, using their amazing old Chandler & Price letterpress and touring their local community garden, where we snacked on some carrots, fresh from the ground. I’m re-hooked on letterpress now, and have been searching the web for a little press of my own to get […]

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The coincidence of a 14 mile training run and a 14 mile trail race falling on the same weekend was not to be ignored, so I signed up for the Malibu Creek Challenge, another race in the Xterra Trail Race series that I tried out last fall. We rose early Saturday morning to head out […]

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It’s been a pleasant week here, aside from the crazy wind yesterday. The under-renovation 20-story Sunset Vine Tower two blocks up from work was covered in a skin-tight Motorola ad for the first few months I was here, but that eventually disintegrated and blew away. Two days ago, workmen finished putting up a massive cloth […]

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It’s been a pretty quiet few days here, things are back to normal with Aimee back in town after her spring break, and she’s started up at school again. I’m in the third week of marathon training, and it’s going ok, with a nice nine-mile run in Santa Monica on Sunday and a day off […]

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This past weekend, I had a brief but very enjoyable trip home to Anchorage. Aimee is still in Boston for her spring break, so I went back by myself, on the early flight to Anchorage via Seattle on Friday morning, getting in around 1:00 in the afternoon, and returning on the non-stop red-eye, leaving at […]

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This past weekend, Aimee and I took another L.A. walking tour, this time around Miracle Mile, and met Michael halfway through for lunch ($12 worth of meat) at Pampas, the Brazilian churrascaria place in the Farmer’s Market at the Grove. We also took our “This American Life Live” poster to get framed, and ran some […]

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I guess I shouldn’t have asked for that third thing to break last week; apparently, it’s our hot water. So our showers have been cut short since the show; maybe we used too much hot water getting ready, who knows. As for the other things that broke, I’ve taken my computer into MacEnthusiasts, a typically […]

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It’s been a busy week since we got back from Vegas. I worked a 9am to 2am shift at an editing shop preparing for the show, which involved me sitting around for seventeen hours with not a whole lot to do but grab a tape for someone every hour or so, so I watched four […]

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