This growing up thing sucks. I’m spending my morning on yet another aspect of my Year of Getting Shit Together. Today’s fun menu includes finances.
I’ve been on the phone dealing with some old debts I finally need to face up to, and I’m waiting on a call about a tax deductible retirement savings I need [...]

Ahhhhhhh… spring! It’s a-comin’, sweet-cheeks!
I think we’re on the verge of one of the driest Februaries I can remember in my lifetime. Lots of sun of late, which has been much-loved for me, considering my scooter has been near death of late — so bad I’ve been having to push it up the big hills [...]

The West Coast is starting to show the beginnings of spring. Crocus leaves have shot up with the flowers days away from following, buds have appeared on cherry blossom trees, and the perfume of early flowers can be caught on some chilly winds.
It’s great. It’s light before seven, and almost until six. Soon it’ll be [...]

Ah, the moon.
Some would say the moon is what keeps lovers together, two can look upon it miles and miles apart, and yet it’s the same for both.
Peoples of all kinds have used the moon to mark the passage of time throughout the world, just look at the Chinese lunar calendar, or any of the [...]

For some reason, there’s a dozen stories I’m interested on commenting on, but I just can’t do it. February 15th is pretty much my least favourite day of the year and I just don’t want to go into it, though it has nothing to do with Valentine’s. The timing’s coincidental.
But finding this website, relationshipobit.com, was [...]

Welcome to my continuing madhouse. Instead of wrapping everything up this weekend, I’ve pretty much undone everything with one weird decision. I’d planned to sell an antique sideboard of mine but my ad only got one response, a woman who’s restoring a 100-year-old hotel wants to trade for it, and offered me several items.
Hey, I’m [...]

Valentine’s Day. A cruel joke, it would seem.
A day for lovers set smack-dab in the middle of February… the month where everyone’s just hangin’ on by a thread, awaiting the reprieve to come with spring. The month where most of us are slightly looser cannons than we’d normally be. A month filled with terse exchanges, [...]

I get American politics, but I don’t get American politics. I mean, it just seems like it’s so much work to be democratic in the USA. (I mean small-D democratic, not big D.)
You people have to vote all the goddamned time. Tomorrow, here we go again, another big American vote. Jesus Christ. How about voting [...]

I don’t get into the whole cult of celebrity thing much because I think we give them a little too much attention. They’re doing a job. When the cameras shut off, leave ‘em alone. Those are my thoughts.
But I’m gonna comment on two things.
One: Ohmigod, no, Heath Ledger went to a drug party? GASP. I [...]