Haircuttery I think of my quarantine as having started after returning prematurely from New York and having swung and missed on my trip to London (a trip, I might add, which would have been a complete waste of time and effort because that expert witness case settled favorably). I flew back to San Diego on Wednesday, March 10th with a prickly feeling on the back of my neck like I had just escaped the Coronavirus.…
Ghost Writing More than two years ago a friend of mine sent me the first fifty pages of a manuscript that he had “written” than chronicled his career and life. He had put together some 230 pages of thoughts and notes in somewhat random order and had hired a ghost writer to help him bring it all together as a book that would be both readable and compelling. He sent it to me to read…
All Tesla All Day Almost three years ago I got it in my head that I might want to own a Tesla X to use out here when I moved for good. The experience from start to finish was interesting. Kim and I went to one of the urban malls that are scattered in San Diego. This one was near La Jolla, which meant it was close to the mother lode of excess disposable income.…
Reefer Madness The 1936 cult classic movie Reefer Madness has been called one of the worst movies ever made. I suppose that is what made it a cult classic. It was produced by a church group as a cautionary tale for the youth of America to warn them about the hazards of recreational drug use (mostly marijuana) and how it could lead to harder drugs, personal failure and general societal malaise. In overshooting its mark,…
The Man with the Pan You all know by now that I am the proud owner of a like-new 2019 BMW R1250GS Adventure motorcycle. You also may recall that I am still stumbling around with the registration process out here in California (or even in New York for that matter) given the COVID-19 closure of all DMV facilities. Given what we all know to be the experience at whatever DMV we go to, it will…
The Ass in the Hat The sun did not shine, it was too wet to play, so we stay in the house all that cold, cold, wet day. I sat there with Kim. We sat there we two, and I said ‘how I wish we had something to do.’ And then something went BUMP! How that bump made us jump! And we saw him! The Ass in the Hat. And he said to us, ‘why…
Narrowing the Gap Filling gaps is an important part of healing. As I think about the world, writ large, as they say, I think about all the things that need healing right now. I feel compelled to address one of those gaps that I believe is getting more and more obvious and, as such, needs the fresh light of day in hopes that awareness helps to narrow the gap. Anyone who spends a moment looking…
Giveth and Taketh I have a complicated life right now for several seemingly silly reasons. The first involves my newly acquired motorcycle and the other involves my newly acquired car. Let’s start with the car. I have been leasing new cars for many years now. I am simply not a fan of residual value prognostication and much prefer to pay a budgeted amount over three or four years and be done with the whole affair.…
The Northern Star Polaris or Alpha Ursae Minoris, the brightest star in the Ursa Minor constellation, is the name of the celestial body which we have come to know as the North Star or Pole Star. As such it enjoys the “pole” position at the axis of the heavens. To some it seems to be the center of the universe since all the other stars appear to rotate around it. Of course this is just…
A Golden Opportunity Back in February when our two friends Gary and Oswaldo were staying with us for a few weeks, an interesting thing happened. One of the reasons they chose that time (literally right after we made our final escape from New York City) to come and stay with us was that Oswaldo likes to be helpful and he wanted to assist Kim in the moving preparations. He did just that. Oswaldo is an…