friend of the built environment

I’m among the pickiest of people when it comes to choosing where I want to live. Usually, I do a big cost-benefit analysis when thinking of the subject, which usually results in deciding Fresno is the best, considering it’s where all my history is buried, where my family lives, where the rent is cheap, and [...]

I finally finished The Ominous Parallels today (it took me almost a year of stop-and-go) and started The Death and Life of Great American Cities this morning. I’ve already polished off the first four chapters. It’s probably the second greatest book I’ve ever read… In my endeavor to avoid the specticle of Pride Weekend here [...]

I’ve always hated drama. Whenever there’s drama in my life, I start to feel like a cliche, or like I’m wearing my friends thin. Thus the past couple weeks, and their attendant family dramas are really getting on my nerves. The weekend passed in a relatively non-threatening way. I think everything will be OK. More [...]

Apologies for being such a dud this week. I think I’ve been a little preoccupied with keeping myself from going crazy after not having seen my baby for almost 2 weeks. The amount of masturbation is getting ridiculous, I say…

Superfluid show tonight. First one I’ll have seen in many many months. I’ll be recording it, of course. Maybe video even.
Whilst dressing tonight, I realized that the new up-sized wardrobe that I invested in less than 6 months ago is already too tight. It’s time to definitely start watching what I eat… At least to [...]

Things I should not do on a Thursday night if I plan on being at work Friday:

Drink more than 2 beers 
Stay up after 1am 
Set my alarm for the usual extra half-hour earlier than needed

Things that would greatly improve my day:

Food. Lots of it. 
Snogging with my baby for a few hours 
Sleep. Lots of it.

The latter will [...]

I, of course, had another wonderful, cozy, cuddly, relaxing, but all-too-swiftly-passing weekend with David . Now if only I hadn’t developed this horribly persistent gastrointestinal ailment…
The car is in the shop for it’s 120,000-mile service, as well as service to a persisting ABS problem. I feel fortunate to be able to say that I’m the [...]

I had the privelage of stepping outside with the welding mask and observing the eclipse this afternoon. Much fascinated and entertained was I.
I am really glad I got my medical insurance back in February. I have been using the hell out of it. My latest ailment is a combination of gastrointestinal problems which together result [...]

Fuck.
Car still in the shop. I have a zippy little Chevy Prizm rental in the meantime. She’s smooth and quiet and feels suspiciously like a Carolla inside and out, but she gets me around. A thousand apologies to Andrea , who beat Duncan to the punch on the birthday present , but didn’t manage to [...]

I still love my car, but she can sure be a bitch sometimes… She took my entire July paycheck, damn it.
Looks like the marriage may have to be put on hold for another month or two, baby.

A very dry past couple of weeks here, I admit. I just don’t have much to say other than the complaints about the really inconvenient happenings in my financial world. And those are boring to anyone who isn’t dependent upon said world. I hung out with Lauren last night. We were having fun eating sammiches [...]

A snarky, vapid piece on the front page of Saturday’s Chronicle inspired me to write my first new rant in a long time, regarding the recent debate on hate crimes legislation. The author advocated mob rule through unchecked democracy, and hate crimes legislation as a just means of enforcing official government ideology. “Democracy” and “hate” [...]

I’m going to be moving my site hosting to Pair over the next couple days. The site may be down for a few hours while I get everything transferred. If you want to get in touch, use my contact form rather than my email until the switch is complete, sinc my email accounts will also [...]

So I finally got everying working here on Pair . Soon I should have the forwarding working for the other domains. Then will come the project of another refurbishment, starting with changing that damn navigation graphic. If only I currently had an adequate image editor… If anything seems out of wack or disfunctional, let me [...]

I changed my mind. Superfluid is playing Tokyo Garden the same night. This will help me with my sociophobia and claustrophobia, as well as allow me to remove the public part of the birthday party in favor of a more intimate thing. 
I can tell you’re all heartbroken…

I agree with the Court. The majority of lawmakers and the majority of Americans think the 1954 version of the Pledge is better. This is because most lawmakers and most Americans are faith-based ballast. America is a secular state, and its laws should all be secular. America should have no institutions, laws or representatives that [...]

I’ve made a few changes, you may notice. New pic, no more annoying plain text in the navigator column, and a few clean-ups throughout the site. I finally finished my Bookstore , and now have no remaining “incomplete” pages. Of course, every web site is a work in progress, but I do dislike having pages [...]