click image for max. size I took this picture in 1984, soon after starting my first job out of college. Sperry sent me for training at their installation on the […]
(first posted 8/27/2014) One fine fall day in 1970, my father and I headed out to get my first brand new wheels. Dad’s parents came from Scotland, so he insisted […]
As I sit here in my kitchen, with the window open on a beautiful Sunday afternoon in February (I love Southern California!), I hear the occasional whistle of a steam […]
Like it is for Gerardo and our Antipodean contingent, the weather outside in Poway California is anything but frightful – 75 degrees (F) and sunny; we’ve had enough rain that […]
I was walking to the deli in the office building next to mine (actually it’s a sushi/teriyaki shop: this is California!) when I saw a sporty – dare I say […]
My wife is a notorious night owl, and my three high-schoolers have spent the last three months up late doing homework. (Either they get more than I did, or they […]
The other day I was on a long conference call, mostly just listening. So I put the phone on speaker, muted the receiver and began looking at Google Maps to see […]
Like most CC-ers, my car interest came early. This was perhaps something of a surprise to my parents, as they weren’t car nuts – Dad was a forester by training, […]