I've regaled you all already about how bad my memory is, and how absent minded and just plain scatterbrained I ...   more »

Somewhere in the pure randomness of half asleep thought, this came to me last night.

When he finally relieves the ...   more »

Here's some pictures I've taken recently.
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I don't think I've posted this before. Let me know if I have.   more »

Here's another strange phenomena that follows me around, this one in regards to television watching.

I rarely watch TV. I ...   more »

The music archive recently grew by 12 tracks, as I've been able to track down 2 lost recordings, and 4 ...   more »

I needed a month to think about it. But, I've come up with a set of goals and resolutions for ...   more »

So today I turned 35. I'm typing this post with my birthday present to myself. I got me one of ...   more »

"King (street) for a Day" and "Let's do the Time-warp" were also titles I considered for this article.

What an ...   more »

So, after a 5.25 hour delay, my flight finally departed San Diego. Of course, my connecting flight left without me. ...   more »

I'm coming to you live from SD international airport, where my flight has been delayed for more than 4 hours. ...   more »

That's a catalog photo of my new Olympus SP-560UZ digital camera. It's hard to use a camera to take a ...   more »

So, I'm thinking about entering the blog world.

Here is revisited a song I wrote with Kelley Mitchell back in ...   more »

In my post NaNoWriMo afterglow, which included an intense desire to do no typing whatsoever, I completely neglected to mention ...   more »

Ok, I did it. I wrote a friggin novel in November. Well, to be more precise, I wrote 50,000 words ...   more »

Yeah, I'm posting something. Rejoice. Forgive the lack of posts lately, but I've had to dedicate all my writing time to this novel monster. No, I haven't posted any excerpts from it yet. I don't know that I will, either, since it has turned out to be so godawful.   more »

The fires, at least the ones that were near me, are out or under control. Some of the fire to ...   more »

Like clockwork, 4 years to the week after huge portions of San Diego county burned up in a series of ...   more »

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So who's reading this thing, anyway?


Today, just for a laugh, I glanced at my "site stats" page, and to ...   more »

If you've visited the blog in the past few days, you were met with a message saying something like "Blog ...   more »

After being out of the country for more than 2 weeks, I had to get used to driving again.   more »

Sadly, it is time for me to return now to the "real world" here in the blogosphere.    more »

Prologue
Part One
Part Two
Part Three
Part Four
Part Five
Part Six
Part Seven

We survived the natural catastrophe, ...   more »

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Part Two
Part Three
Part Four
Part Five
Part Six

Choquequirao, sometimes called "The Other Machu Picchu", ...   more »

The Trek is on!   more »

Prologue
Part One
Part Two
Part Three
Part Four


Machu Picchu, newly crowned member of the "New" seven wonders of ...   more »

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Welcome to the Sacred Valley of the Inca. It's easy to understand why ...   more »

Prologue
Part One
Part Two

On the morning of our second day in Ccaccaccollo, I awakened from fitful sleep, having ...   more »

Prologue
Part One

As I write this, almost 2 weeks after the fact, there is a full moon in the ...   more »

Cuzco, ancient capital of the Inca empire. Not just it's capital, but it's very heart. Cuzco was to the Inca ...   more »