White Boy/White Dog Move To Skid Row

Certified Beach Dude Moves To Downtown Los Angeles

My major food weakness is potatos in general, and fried potatos in particular- french fries, tator tots, hash browns, these are all tastier than any dessert or candy I could have. Once I clear them out of my system for a couple of weeks through “cold turkey” detox, I don’t crave them as [...]

Every year but a couple has seen me get the blues starting around Thanksgiving and carrying through Christmas. It’s a deep-seated issue that started as an only child growing with parents that constantly invited all the aging old great-aunts and “family friends” over to spend a week around Thansgiving or Christmas. Sure, I [...]

(Paraphrased from several articles- see main link below)
President-elect Barack Obama has yet to attend church services since winning the White House earlier this month, a departure from the example of his two immediate predecessors.
On the three Sundays since his election, Obama has instead used his free time to get in workouts at a Chicago gym. [...]

(If you are not interested in weight training or dieting for strength, don’t bother reading this post- you will be bored to tears).
One of my friends recently took up weight training for the first time in his life. His goal is pretty simple- get STRONG! He’s a young guy (23) and has a [...]

Today I got two hours of diet and exercise information FOR FREE from the 7 women who sit in cubes surrounding me. The way the cubes are situated, there are 8 cubes, in two “X” configuratons, and the 7 women are all in same department (not Info Sys- I got stuck there). And [...]

The Los Angeles Athletic Club / Good Samaritan Hospital Walk Downtown LA event had it’s first meeting last Friday, and it was a huge success by all measures. I went to the club at the 5:00pm registration time, and was blown away by the turnout. And to my surprise, #1 downtown blog blogdowntown.com [...]

On Friday, August 1st at 5pm, there will be an interesting event that is hosted by 2 organizations that I really like- Los Angeles Athletic Club and Good Samaritan Hospital. (Contrary to what you may think based upon me checking myself out of Good Samaritan, I think it’s a great hospital, and I was [...]

I don’t ususally care too much about politics- as far as I’m concerned, 90% of politicians suck. As the saying goes- how do you know if they are lying? Their lips are moving. But last night I heard a radio show host talk about how council-woman Jan Perry was trying to stop [...]

I wanted to wait a few days to make sure all was well, but I believe I am 100% back to the normal, healthy person I was before the immense constipation I had (”small intestine blockage that could be a tumor”). I don’t want to gloat, as I’m a big believer in Karma- maybe [...]

After my last post about how I abruptly left the Good Samaritan Hospital, I wanted to convey to you how positive my experience actually was, and how I lost my fear of emergency rooms and hospitals due to the people that provided the immediate care to me at that facility.
In all of my decades on [...]