Storm Progression

More in “Phone Pics” gallery… Sunrise on Friday: Saturday when the sea starts churning: Sunday when the storm was ending: Looks like the Arctic: Out came the sun and dried up all the rain:

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Ewwww, it’s shiny!

My parents just got a nice little Gaggia single-group espresso machine off of ebay. It’s nice because it’s self contained (meaning you don’t need to hook it up to plumbing) and yet, it’s not the typical crappy home espresso machine. It uses a full size portafilter (52mm) and the only complaint I have is that [...]

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Black Hole Sun

Pictures from walking on the beach in Pismo. Nice fall here in SLO. This one came out interesting. The sun turned out completely black.

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Fire in the sky

I just got back from a hike up the hills behind my house. There was an amazing sunrise this morning. In the picture on the top right, that’s Cerro San Luis (aka Madonna Mountain) on the left in the foreground and Bishop’s Peak in the background towards the right. The lower left picture is Cerro [...]

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Bikes everywhere!

The Bike Happening happened to fall on Dia de Los Muertos this month, a couple of days after halloween, so everyone was sporting their costumes. And don’t forget to vote on Tuesday!

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Sickness

I just got over being sick. Blah! I’m so glad Airborne exists. I got sick and unsick in less than 1.5 days by drinking a cup of this every 3 hours or so. Awesome stuff that’s not medicine so it’s not going to make you feel worse. It’s just a bunch of vitamins, almost 2000% [...]

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Spiders and Stoplights

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Lightning Storm

An awesome storm came through! Here are some pictures that I took from the hill in my backyard, standing on the Pismo pier and on a cliff in Shell Beach. Really cool! I have videos but they were all taken on my phone so they aren’t great quality and these are stills taken from those. [...]

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Oops!

My brother and I were in a meeting when all of a sudden his chair literally snapped in half and he fell backwards: Pretty hilarious! I loved this when I was a kid! Thanks youtube (I haven’t seen that for nearly two decades)! I remember the whole thing so vividly, the close-up with the blurry [...]

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Tokyo: Population 12,678,395

Tokyo looks like it would be interesting. (Maybe I’ll get there in the next year or so….hmmmm….) Click here to view. Another view of Tokyo

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