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the play’s the thing: rhubarb @ the lyceum

I haven’t been to theater and performing arts performances with any regularity for some time and have missed the experience, so I purchased tickets to several local performances taking place this spring. This week I attended the first of these, a Moxie Theatre production of Rhubarb, or How to Play With a Rollergirl running through [...]

mission trails

I’m sick with my second cold in three weeks. I tried resting very quietly in bed today, but admitted defeat and got up after listening to the maintenance crew tear up the concrete in front of my doorway for several hours. I met up with friends on Saturday to hike and do some geocaching at [...]

chollas lake park

I met up with friends this afternoon for a little geocaching/hiking fun at Chollas Lake Park, which is both centrally located and not too far from where several of us work. The weather was beautiful — it has been warming up in town throughout the week — and the sky was only a little hazy. [...]

no. 369

On Sunday, I felt like a-wandering and pointed my car in the general direction of Julian, a small town in the mountains east of San Diego that is famous for its apples in all their tasty permutations. The two-lane highway dipped and rose and swung from side to side. It had been a year or [...]

highway 125

On Thanksgiving, my dad and I tried to distract ourselves from our impending post-meal lethargy by taking a drive along the newly-completed 125 freeway extension. That the toll was free because it was so shiny and new was just an added bonus. Here is the bridge connecting eastbound Hwy 54 to the 125 south: The [...]