I’ll Eat To That
Travel diaries, food porn, random rants, and various musings about stuff that I feel like musing about.
Blog Posts
The First Month of Living Differently
I have officially completed my first month of Living Differently. It's been a challenge to come up with new things to do every day and some have been more interesting than others, but it's been (mostly) fun. I spent New Year's on the Las Vegas Strip and bet on the...
TYOLD Day 31: What in the World?
I'm great with US geography. I can name all 50 states, in alphabetical order, in under 30 seconds primarily because of the 50 Nifty United States song that we did in 3rd grade. I was Ohio. I can also place them on a map and can even, more or less, draw the map from...
TYOLD Day 30: Driving Me Crazy
My commute to work is roughly 14.6 miles, including about a mile of surface streets from my home to get to the 101 freeway and another half a mile from the freeway to the office. On a normal day, from garage to garage, it takes me about 30 minutes, give or take. In...
TYOLD Day 29: Survival Skills
There was some random commercial on that had some dumb guy running from a bear, which made me remember a certain video that I'll share in a bit, but more importantly it made me wonder what you really should do in case of animal attacks. I don't expect to ever get...
TYOLD Day 28: Brains!
Lately, I have been feeling a little dumb. That's actually an understatement: I've been feeling as though I am kind of an idiot. There's a lot of reasons for it that I won't go into here but let's just say that I've been in the head space lately where it continually...
TYOLD Day 27: What’s on TV
Kind of a failure today in a lot of different ways but especially in the Differently department. The best I could do was try to work through some of the junk that was piled up on my DVR and watch things I had never watched before. The only one worth mentioning is The...
TYOLD Day 26: Drag Queen Bingo
I have played bingo. I have known many drag queens. I have never been to Drag Queen Bingo... until tonight. My delightful friend Fred invited me to join him at Hamburger Mary's in West Hollywood where they do Drag Queen Bingo every Sunday and Wednesday. Just in you...
TYOLD Day 25: The Cuban Press
I work out twice a week with a trainer, Sam Page of Sam Page Fitness, who kicks my ass on a regular basis. It's the only way I can find the wherewithal to actually exercise; my body's default setting is sloth. I had been working out pretty hard before the whole...
TYOLD Day 24: Zoot Suit Riots
When I was at the Great Wall of LA a couple of weeks ago, there were many panels on the mural that depicted significant incidents in Los Angeles history that I knew nothing about. I made a list of them and decided that learning about them would make good entries on my...
TYOLD Day 23: Juggling
I've always wanted to be able to juggle. So tonight, for my Differently, I decided to learn. I should have known it would end poorly when the instructional video started by saying, "It's easy! All you need is dexterity and patience." If I had dexterity and patience,...
Deeper Dives
The Year of Living With Cancer
In 2012, I was diagnosed with Esophageal Cancer. To help myself cope with it, I wrote about it. A lot. And yes, the picture of Angela and Jordan will make sense at some point if you read enough.
The Year of Living Differently
After cancer, I decided to try to mix things up and do something different every single day for a year. Did I make it?
50 for 50 by 50
To celebrate, or perhaps to distract myself from, my impending 50th birthday in 2016, I embarked on a project to give $50 to 50 different charities by the time I turned 50.
Gun Violence
A page full of facts to help you be better informed about the issues surrounding gun violence in the United states.