Congratulations to all beginners who narrowly survived their first-ever swing dance lesson! Hope you had fun. For those interested in cheap, dance shoe conversions, we’re gonna visit a leather shop in Fountain Valley this week and learn about gluing leather onto Keds and tennis shoes for low low prices. If cheap enough, will pick up [...]

I fed our local itinerant hobo bunny until he was chock full of apple, and then he let me pet him. Now he’s sleeping in the shade in our backyard.
I got a bunch of pork for a BBQ tomorrow. The butcher gave me a hard time about my limited meat knowledge. No, of course the [...]

New swing series starts week of the 25th, Mondays at 9am and Fridays at 7:30. Let me know if you’re interested.

Overheard on the Aerial Tram in Palm Springs.
British guy (very British, voice dripping with disdainful smugness and a cultured pretension several centuries in the making), to the British guy next to him: They don’t really DO food in this country, do they? I mean, it’s just the same burger place one after another.
Really British? Really? [...]

Went to an indian casino in Palm Springs for lunch today. Paul put $2 in a deuces wild poker machine. I bet 25 cents and got dealt a straight flush and made three bucks (a profit of 1200%). I cashed out immediately and later spent my winnings on a pretty beverage at the top of [...]

Several years ago, we started writing down amusing phrases as proferred by witty friends and family. This maybe have represented a reprisal of a “Book of Funny Things” Paul made for Lori in 1998 so she could record hilarious things he said. She never wrote anything in it.
So occasionally we tack up a few [...]