It’s dark. The sky always is clear. Wind rushes by, through the windows as I hurry home. The air is reasonably cool again; it feels more like summer back home. Always comparing to back home in Michigan.
I relax, turn up the music really loud, and try to forget whatever has happened to me this night. [...]
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I was going to start this as a response to a comment in the previous entry, but thought I was on a roll…
So I now have a growing list of reasons to have children, most of them not positive:
Have a kid to wash my car, do other chores. Thanks to Matt. And I guess to [...]
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Guy pushes his travelling cart with groceries and a dog. On the Lexus SUV side of town where you almost never see shopping carts travel outside the store parking lot.
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It’s much cooler up in the mountains if you go high enough. The breeze made me forget the boiling temps several thousand feet below. Returning from Huntington Lake, I almost felt like shutting the car window, but didn’t out of stubbornness.
Feel that cold air.
Check out the Bug… er, Beetle. Dad, slugbug, no slugbacks. On [...]
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In the midst of insomnia, I got a loud bonus.
A crack of thunder, rumbling forever. It was magical. I didn’t see the lightning; wondered briefly if it was my sleepless imagination.
But I rolled up the window shade and the sky was completely obscured by clouds, something very rare for Fresno during the summer.
I told the [...]
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Yes, it is possible to overdose on Night Court reruns on TV Land. Really. I didn’t think I could.
But you know what? After tuning in sporadically throughout the weekend of marathons, I’ve concluded that Night Court was funny, once. When I was a kid.
Maybe it’s still funny. But I’m having a hard time going to [...]
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It’s quiet, except for the crickets and the sounds of far-off dogs. Behind us is a faint aura of light, pollution from the city below and behind.
Above is a darkened sphere, revealing the most stars I’ve seen in years. I gasp a little when I first see the sky.
It’s so beautiful. And the air is [...]
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