I went to London with Laura in September, and am just now getting around to posting some pictures. There are like 150 in all, which reflects about 20% of the…

Now that I’m not traveling for a living anymore (what AM I doing for a living anymore?), I have to make an actual effort to see people I love. I’m…

It’s not a holiday yet, but someday, no doubt, we’ll look back and know when it all began.  It’s an incredibly exciting time to be me.

So I’m intending, eventually, to be somewhat less of a lazy, fat slob. I’m not one for the gym and my lifestyle doesn’t really lend itself to hardcore patterning like that anyway, but I’ve gotta do something, and I’ve started.  I’ve been good about playing volleyball (if you’re reading this and I’ll be seeing you in Vegas, I expect that we’ll be playing at least a couple of times over the 6-day trip), and I’ve started the rudiments of a workout that I’ll do whenever I can get the chance.

There’s (kind of) a lot more ridiculous musing after the break. Also a much bigger picture of me trying to look cool.

I’m just starting to lose my tour weight and get back to LA-weight, as it were, and to start the month like this is disheartening, to say the least.  At this rate, I’ll weigh 240 by month’s end and be like 27% body fat!  I’ll be a medical curiosity, a freak of the weight-gain community! I’ll be famous!

Actually, this doesn’t sound so bad.

This update doesn’t represent an actual emotional investment on my part, I just think it’s funny when you have a small data set the kind of extrapolations you can make.  Reminds me of some “news” organizations we could all name, even.  Actually, yesterday I did eat terribly, so today I’ll be making some changes, but mostly because I can’t eat like that 2 days in a row. Also because I have volleyball with some new folks tomorrow and I don’t want them to think I’m terrible because I ate badly and can’t move.  I want to come by my terribleness honestly, through lack of practice and general out-of-shape-ness.

Bigger graph after the break.

I didn’t even realize I’d been thinking about it, but I guess I was, over these last, umm… months since my last update.  Well, I’ve decided.  Clapboard lives.  It gets…

I know this is like trying to draw attention to a rock concert by sitting in the stands and whistling, but I really dig Randall’s work on XKCD from Monday:…

As a general caveat, I’ve never really understood lists.  I mean, I get shopping lists, To Do lists and the like, but “the ten cutest apples at the farmer’s market” lists just baffle me.  I like reading them just fine, but I never think in lists, nor do I often think, “man, this is the THIRD BEST plank-baked salmon I’ve had when cloud cover is more than 50% and I’m eating south of the equator.”  Apparently most people do.

Because I rambled on and on, there’s more list-based ranting after the break. My face, however, stays here.

Also staying here is the note that I actually feel human again for more than a day at a time and I love it.  I know I’m back because I’m mentally strategising about how to fit an international trip into my life while still skiing, wine tasting and visiting friends on both coasts.  This is what it’s like to be me – I’d almost forgotten.

“If you can not measure it, you cannot improve it.” – Lord Kelvin

So after the break is the post that became my introductory post on WranglerForum.com.  It was long winded and absurd, and covered a lot of Jeep crap in detail that I never put on here, so I figure it can’t hurt to cross-post. I know me, and I know I’ll come here looking for the thing before there, if I end up needing to reference it eventually.  So, after the break you’ll find an absurdly-long TJ-related post.

Okay, i’m starting this update at LAX waiting on my flight, but i won’t be able to finish it till i get to a computer because I deleted some of the plugins for the site while I was fixing everything and just found one I never re-enabled once I finished the fix.  Anyway, after the break, I’ll talk about First World Problems, server rebuilds and what I’ve been up to in the week I’ve been back in the States. Maybe I’ll even throw in a picture, too.

Over the years, I’ve accumulated a lot of hosted domains on my VPS, and this is the morning where I finally cull the herd and drop the dozens of addresses…

That’s a heck of a wine flight.

So I bought some wine in the Barossa Valley.  It’s true.  Now I’m cataloging it all and putting together the list of places I’ve been.  It’s data entry of the best kind.  When it’s done, I’ll have pins in Google Maps & I’ll have bottles listed in Cellar Tracker. Somehow, I intend to cross-reference them, but I’m not sure how.  Really, there should be some way to marry the two things into one database that both sites (and others!) can query for the relevant info.  Sorry, nerdigression.

One thing’s for sure, if Wanderlust ever happens, I’ll have an assistant to do most of this stuff for me.  Fun! Big picture and a bit more blather after the break.

I keep doing these things – I don’t know why.  I know that I’m in Australia and that’s cool, and I know that most people don’t get to see this sort of view often (at least, I don’t), so I’ll put it up. I spent an unreasonable amount of time tweaking this thing, recording the voiceover (which is terrible, I apologize in advance), making decisions and generally fretting, but at the end of the day I figured it wasn’t going to get better, so I hit the EXPORT button.

Video after the break.

I did a weird time lapse video yesterday while I was driving south through basically the entire Barossa Valley in South Australia yesterday.  It’s weird because I inexplicably chose 12 fpm as a format, which just makes it all look unnaturally-jumpy to me.  Sorry about that.

vid after el break.

well, shit! Hey! I broke clapboard like a month ago trying to do some halfassed maintenance, and here’s what it gets me.  Basically 2013 was a wash, update-wise, since I…

Milk is for babies. When you grow up you have to drink beer. Arnold Schwarzenegger