This weekend, my best friend, Jay Def, flew down here to rainy, windy Northern California for a weekend of fun and hijinks. This afternoon, I took him to the airport.
Jay lives in Idaho, but the only reasonably priced plane tickets we could find him required him to change planes in Phoenix. The weather [...]
During my recent road trip to the Northwest, I decided to throw down a mix in my hotel room in Seattle after a long day of driving across parts of Idaho, Oregon, and Washington. I decided to slide the tempo down to 123 bpm and play a nice, laid-back deep house mix.
I really like [...]
I’ve just returned from a spring break road trip with my family. I spent a lot more money than I intended to and managed to get my first speeding ticket in more than a decade. Here are ten things we did which we enjoyed the most.
Toured the Theo Chocolate factory in Seattle and [...]
I set a couple of New Year’s Resolutions last year, which I didn’t get around to posting here. One of them was to write 52 tracks, which I finished. I slipped on a few others.
So, I’m going to post my goals for 2009 in three categories: personal development, music, and fitness. [...]
Jay Def came over to my grandmother’s house to hang out on December 26, while I was in the area. While we’re both in the same place at the same time, we might as well throw down some beats, right? We shut the door of the family room, so as not to disturb [...]
Yay, Christmas. I’m still foggy on why it is that the price of gas has dropped by three dollars over the last four months, but my air fare to Boise is more expensive than it was last year. I guess that’s not the most important thing in the world to focus on, but [...]
While I was on my recent road trip, I thought I’d be nifty to spin up a DJ set in Flagstaff, which I’ve dubbed “Soul at 7000 feet”. It consists of 75 minutes of deep soulful house music at 121 beats per minute. I tried to lay back on the groove and I [...]
Four days off for Thanksgiving! That seems like an excellent opportunity to get out of dodge. I decided to drive down to Southern California, pick up my friend, and take a short road trip to Phoenix and Flagstaff. Might as well see some new country, right?
On Thursday, I took off bright an [...]
I went down to San Diego this weekend to celebrate a friend’s birthday and explore a town I haven’t seen in 22 years or so. I had a great time hanging out with all the people I met down in Southern California.
Since my recent Milwaukee set, I wanted to haul my Vestax along with [...]
On a quiet Monday morning on my last full day in Milwaukee, I looked out the window, plugged in my gear, and spun up a set of lovely tracks for Eric & Betsy. I really got into a nice groove and, while there were a couple of spots I wish I could do over, [...]
My friend, Eric, invited me to his wedding in Milwaukee and, after some hemming and hawing, I decided that I could certainly not miss my man’s wedding. For most of the six days, I was free to wander at large around the greater Milwaukee area. I rented a car, stayed at a hotel [...]
Google has done it again with a subtle little change to their Maps. You can now drag and drop route corrections on the fly. I’ve been waiting for something like this for quite a few years. It works spectacularly, although it remains to be seen how many of these intermediate drag and [...]
Today, I finally wrote the reviews for places I Plazed or dodged in from when I went to Oregon and Idaho at the end of March. Since Yelp doesn’t offer the ability to predate posts, they’re all dated today.
I still have a couple more months of stuff in the Bay Area to add, but [...]
Cory Doctorow tells of his experience with Fox Rent-A-Car in Oakland. I’ve had pretty good luck with Fox. It’s generally the only rental car place at the San Jose airport that will take my debit card (I also don’t carry a major non-debit credit card). That must have changed recently.
But, when I [...]
Returning home from Idaho at Christmas time is usually not much of a challenge. After getting dropped off at the curb on Wednesday, I fully expected to get on my four o’clock flight and be home around 5:30 or 6. With my car parked at San Jose, it would be a relatively painless [...]
So, today, I decided to get out of my house and take a road trip. The original itinerary was as follows: Half Moon Bay, Pigeon Point, Santa Cruz, Watsonville, San Juan Bautista, Hollister, Gilroy, Morgan Hill, Los Gatos, Saratoga, and home to Sunnyvale.
After a short IM conversation with Eric Rice, I decided to [...]
What a great visit.
On Monday, I went to pick up the kids (mine) from my ex-mother-in-law in Ontario, Oregon, a few miles from Grandma’s house. We ate lunch and returned to Payette to hang out. I brought an extra laptop, my retiring iBook, to give to them, so we worked on cleaning that [...]
After quickly skipping through airport security this afternoon, the flight to Boise was uneventful, except for the aborted landing attempt. I sat next to a precocious eight-year-old girl named Alyson, who was travelling by herself. What a smart kid.
I remembered the temperature being about 79° F when I walked on the tarmac at [...]
Last day in Idaho started out alright, although I woke up about 10:30. My kids were ready to go home and sleep in their own beds again for the first time since Sunday, but my flight wasn’t to leave until 9:20. I hung out with them until four, when my ex-wife came to [...]
The last couple of days at Grandma’s house have been great. We’ve watched Chicken Run (2000) and Titan A.E., ate the worst pizza (Klondike of Ontario, Oregon), and played some chess. My son is a superb chess player for a seven-year-old who doesn’t own a complete chess set (he used to, but kids [...]
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