New look to the site

If you’ve been on this site before and made your way here now, it’s easy to see that the look has changed.  But it isn’t just the look, it’s vastly more than that.  It’s the entire functionality of the site.  But it’s a long way from being there yet. I’m a big believer in the…

Catching up

  First of all, I would like to — belatedly — wish everyone a happy new year. I hope everyone has a safe, prosperous, healthful 2015. This post is going to be a grab bag of subjects because I’m going to be catching up on a lot of stuff. You can read through it all…

New Theme: Need advice

  I’ve gotten tired of the theme I’ve been using on this blog. Consequently, I’ve been roaming the net looking for something I like a lot better. And I think I’ve found it. I’ve been playing around with it on another WordPress installation just to see how I like it, so I want to pass…

Happy New Year 2012

I would like to wish everyone a happy and prosperous New Year.  I hope 2012 brings good things to us all. I also want to use this post to do a little housekeeping and let everyone know I’m going to try my hardest to post more frequently in 2012 (one of my resolutions, in fact). …

Bonnie & Clyde

You can see me in the photo at the left kneeling by a headstone in a forlorn, weed-infested graveyard in a bad part of Dallas, Texas.  The remains below that headstone are none other than those of Clyde Barrow, the male half of the notorious duo who ravaged the the southern states in the late…

Bonnie & Clyde

Bonnie & Clyde

You can see me in the photo at the left kneeling by a headstone in a forlorn, weed-infested graveyard in a bad part of Dallas, Texas.  The remains below that headstone are none other than those of Clyde Barrow, the male half of the notorious duo who ravaged the the southern states in the late…

There goes the neighborhood

As most readers of this blog know, MD and I split our non-traveling time between Incline Village, Nevada (on the north shore of Lake Tahoe) and Santa Barbara, California.  We don’t have a house in the city of Santa Barbara but in the unincorporated town of Montecito, which is a sleepy little suburb of Santa…