The international situation is still desperate. My response: walk on dirt.

This is what I get for writing about writing about hiking the other day. Now I can’t think of anything to blog about. Part of the problem will only make you chuckle if you’ve been in the waiting-for-the-shoe-to-drop world of…

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It had to be like this: after a week of wrangling and hassling, the AT&T tech shows up and makes everything work effortlessly while simultaneously making me look like a complete idiot who’d never turned on a computer before. But…

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And just for fun I have no hikes to my credit (who knew you could have so much crap in one little apartment and that moving it across the street could consume an entire weekend??) Final blessing of moving heck…

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I’ll be getting all my exercise toting boxes for the next few days (just moving across the street) but I should be done in time to get a hike in on Sunday and a write-up on Monday. If you’re in…

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I know, not much of anything lately. Here’s the deal: as I noted on my personal page the other day, things are looking increasingly grim in the newspaper biz. While I’m not convinced people’s urge to be informed about what’s…

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A guiding principle among folks of Republican ilk is that the faults of these United States of America are vastly overblown and that the nation’s lefty-liberal critics are largely out to lunch. It took a smart, capable half-white liberal black…

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Well, Google’s Adsense has finally pissed me off. The twits who think the world will end when people of the same gender marry have bought up blog space across the California blogosphere and their aggravating, misleading ads are showing up…

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