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Moonsong showed up while I was in the shower to continue work on the gate project, and while it isn’t done yet, it now works! All we need to do now is the final adjustment and finish work. Here are the Magic Gates in action: Dinner number four is as late as yesterdays’ was early. [...]

Nothing like waking up in the morning expecting a quiet Sunday only interrupted by a run to Safeway (bagged $140 worth of marked down beef, pork, chicken, and lamb) before serving an early dinner to Curt, Brandon, and Lawyer Dave. By 11 that was just a distant memory — Gnarlene was one the phone needing [...]

Just a quiet day of puttering around the house, fixing a few little things: finish routing out the TV stand laminate for Bob’s front TV which I pulled from the bus find and hang one more piece of artwork in the bedroom clean the house and make the bed for company pull the leaf out [...]

Happy Friday All. Not much progress on the gate today, a little, but the house is MUCH cleaner. Cleaner is good since suddenly I have a dinner party for five tomorrow (Marybeth, Thomas, Melissa, and Buddhist friend after some concert at Key Arena tomorrow). Sunday is dinner with Coucilmember Curt (former), Brandon (former roommate), and [...]

A reader poll today. Leave your comment today. Home grooming mistake…. or fashion statement…. [219.5]

Got a great letter from my friend Steve who is in the “can” in Montana. He spent the summer on the fire lines as a member of the elite Con Crew, one of a few prison fire fighting crews in the west. Here is the link to the story: http://www.newwest.net/topic/article/the_con_crew/C329/L41/ And a couple of great [...]

All good things must come to an end, and the end usually starts at the airport. After a last little bit of tanning, it was check-out time and off to the airport for lunch before our flight to SFO then on to SEA. Election coverage at SFO in the Board Room was one state to [...]

At the WorldMark Indio they have this water feature known as the “Lazy River”. And lazy it is. For a buck a day you can rent a giant inner-tube like thing and go round and round and round getting a complete tan (at least on one side of your body, then you have to flip [...]

Well — this morning was Palm Springs Gay Pride. My second Pride celebration this year. The first was sort of accidental, this one was more planned, but still not really my idea. As a common feature of this blog, the math is: Gay Pride = Marching Band. And here is your installment today (though there [...]

The big plan today is shopping, shopping, shopping. Rich is looking for calendars with scantily clad males, Curt is looking for a license plate frame, Brandon is just looking — and me — just a Palm Springs hat pin. And our rate of success: Rich found two calendars and another Christmas ornament (a flamingo with [...]