At the tail end of Route 66 is a crazy hotel called the Aztec. It’s a bedraggled hotel with a bar inside called the Brass Elephant, a cheezy but fun place that sports bands and Karaoke. It’s across the store from my grocery store in Monrovia so I made a pitstop and [...]

On a foggy, rainy airfield in Scotland in 1942, the B-17 sat with it’s engines off, waiting for the orders to fire all four and take off for the French coast. Today’s raid, with no fighter escort and in daylight, would be against the train-marshalling yards in the western sector.
The B17 crews would be a [...]

Browsing through Technorati today and I came upon a link to Vera. I was struck by her simply, but beautiful photographs. I’ve never been one to actively seek out simple shots. I guess I never even really thought about it. Vera’s gallery has inspired me to see the simple.
I wish I could remember where I [...]

I thought that when I finished the DPBlogs template (it’s called Shiny and I can pass it on if you’re interested in a copy) that the super-late-night coding sessions were at an end and I was going to have tons of time to write and take photos and all that fun stuff. Right.
What [...]

I’ve been getting slammed by spam the last few days. It’s happened frequently over the past few months, but usually only lasts an hour or two and then goes away for a week. But this time it’s relentless. These ruthless spam-bots have forced me to finally take action. So unless we find a better solution, [...]

As the work I do on my house progresses (yes, Dear, it really is progressing…), I still marvel at the quality of the materials that I find. Being built in 1942, and being nowhere near an expensive home (think Levittown),seeing the quality here makes me wonder how nice the expensive stuff was back then.