Category Archives: Journal

Day to day whatever.

The Daily Tweets 2010-12-03: Prepping for Australia

Prepping for Australia. I should sleep really well on the plane tonight b/c I’m tiring myself out so well. #fb # Imminently departing for airport to commence my 36 hr journey to Oz. Next stop: SLC. Then LAX (10-hr layover), … Continue reading

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Winter arrives

Winter is finally acting like winter in Anchorage. What better proof of that than that almost everybody was late to work this morning? A couple of winter pics to celebrate the arrival of snow in Anchorage.

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Dammit, if Joe Miller wins, I’m going to Australia

This is not an empty threat. I feel that strongly about it.

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Glacier National Park, Montana

A photo by Janson Jones of Avalanche Creek in Glacier National Park, Montana inspired nostalgia for the state where I lived the first half of my life — and I share a bunch of my own photos of Glacier Park.

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Lowlife

My GCI phone bill adventure with Accusatory Woman, who popped her cork — but what came out was NOT champagne.

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I like dykes

A couple of excerpts from the classic Dick Van Dyke Show.

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Hands Across the Sand

Anchorage was among six Alaska communities that held a Hands Across the Sand event today calling for an end to offshore oil drilling and for clean energy. Photos & slideshow.

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Recalibration

I’ve been mostly silent on my blog for the past month, & here’s why: to recalibrate & get back on track with my own purposes in life & on this blog.

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Four days after the Oscars, & I still don’t know who won

A grand masterpiece epic generic Academy Award Winning Movie trailer. Update: no longer embeddable, but worth a trip to the Cracked website to see.

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Iditarod dogs (& a few humans too)

A photo slideshow of some of the Iditarod sled dog action on G Street, which was a staging ground for yesterday’s ceremonial start of the race. (Why G Street? Because I go writing at Side Street Espresso every Saturday.)

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