Firstly, it’s worth noting that The Mother-in-Law has a new dog. Molly is a blue heeler mix of some sort. She’s really sweet, though a bit crazy and fairly untrained. We’re hopeful, though, since Australian Cattle Dogs are in the top ten for dog breed intelligence. 
Next on the docket are the mighty Rockies. Now, I’m not a baseball fan. I root for the Red Sox on principal alone. But c’mon! Who doesn’t love a “hometown underdog does good” story? Best of all, I know one Phillies fan who is an extremely sore loser. This could be fun.
In general, Autumn is upon us. The transition seasons always get me fired up in one way or another.
The Wife and I are taking a lot of long walks with Mingus to try to shed some pounds and keep the dog happy.
I’ve barely been on the Bonneville this year, but it’s OK. My favorite riding time is now, so hopefully I’ll get in the saddle at least a few times. I wish I was like these guys.
I’m itching to start a home project or a woodworking project (or both) soon. Updates when I do.
Well, really there’s not much to report.
The drive to Vegas went quickly and easily. We literally did nothing in Vegas — In fact, we we most excited by the fact that the Luxor has two Starbucks. Party animals we are not.
The second leg of the drive into Los Feliz also went without a hitch. From then on it was just the usual sort of “hang out with Chris, Kate, and Chowda” sort of scene. Highlights as I remember them:
- Best of all, we got lots of quality time with Scot & Matt. We love those kids. You might recognize Scot. Thanks to both him and Kate, I have a Bacon Number of 3!
- Casa Bianca has the best sausage pizza I have ever consumed. I am curious as to whether it’s the sausage or the pizza. I cheese pie trial needs to happen someday.
- The Museum of Jurassic Technology is supremely weird. A must see if you’re in LA (and like weirdness).
- Friday poker: In spite of playing like an idiot (and in doing so, pissing Scot off a bit when I rivered and ace to beat his pocket kings), I managed to finish in second place. I had a chance to do better than that, but Matt’s crazy enough that I shouldn’t have tried to scare him out of a pot by going all-in with ace-high.
- Saturday was Chris’ birthday cookout/party in which Chris ended up doing all the cooking… *shrug* Staggering amounts of Guinness were consumed, and I got to see some of my favorite people.
- The Wife and I hiked up to Griffith Observatory a couple times. It’s a steep little hill, let me tell you!
- Lots of dining out, but not as disastrous as usual. Though, we totally had to hit Tito’s Tacos.
The drive back was fairly ordinary except for a crazy huge moon we saw rising over the Utah desert.
Today, when I came back into work, I found a strange Japanese swan phallus thingy on my desk. Thanks to Miracle Ed, I now get the reference, but nobody here has owned up to actually putting it on my desk…
Random, unrelated crap follows … Continue reading ‘Trip Report and Other Junk’
I’ve been scanning and posting a few rock climbing pictures from my days in Massachusetts (and a few from here in Colorado). There are some great shots of me and my friends from those days (most notably Miracle Ed and Hanh).
Makes me wistful.
And a bit depressed… As Ed put it to me “You should get skinny again. You were pretty.”
As of right now, the notions of getting skinny and getting back into climbing are almost a chicken and egg proposition… Nothing to it but to do it, right?
(Did I mention rock climbing is how I seduced my wife? It’s somewhat true.)
Yeah, finally got to go in and start the greenman tattoo. I’ll have two more sittings to finish it. We only managed to do the line work today. It’s that effing HUGE!
I’m seriously amazed he managed to do Ed’s shading (even though Ed went back for more a few days later, which… Ouch!). There are a lot of lines in this puppy.
Good times. I’ll post an after pic once I wash it. Here’s the full outline after the first wash.
Fish at Work
Originally uploaded by Jake Sutton.
Update: More of the same at my Inked, Inc. blog.
At the Inked Inc. blog: One. More. Day.
I’m super excited. Watch Flickr for pics and this space for a post tattoo update.
Actually, it was more like two and a half years ago that I first noticed kettlebells, thanks to (the now humbled and retired) Kostya Tszyu.
Since then, I’ve actually seen kettlebells on TV a few times. One show was totally unrelated to fitness (it was probably a home renovation show or something), but the featured “real person” was a kettlebell trainer, and they showed him doing his thing.
Now BuzzFeed says it’s the latest craze. (They do have some good, recent links, it should be noted.)
Go figure.
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