As part of my deep dive into Claude Code, I’ve relaunched this website, revitalized my LEGO blog, started a new gardening site, and more is coming soon!
Category: Journal
Noo shooz!
New shoes! Mardi shoes on sale and the last pair of Pan socks. John Fluevog brings delightful whimsy to our feet!
Thanks to Kelly-Moore Paints and 3M for providing free N95 masks!
Get yours while they last. The air quality in the Bay Area is so terrible due to the Camp Fire … We need rain!
New hairdo for mom
Took Mom out of the convalescent home for a new hairdo and a visit to the Santa Cruz wharf today.
Moving pages to Brickpile
Prompted by the imminent shutdown of brickshelf.com I am moving all my LEGO entries from this site to my LEGO blog, brickpile.com. Although I copied all my photos from this site onto flickr.com some time ago, I never updated the blog entries to use those images until now. Since I’m updating them, I might as well move them to the LEGO blog. As I move each entry there, I will add rewrite rules to this site so that when anyone tries to visit the old location it will be redirected to the new one.
New Blog for LEGO, and Changes Are Afoot
I’ve started a new blog just for my LEGO®-related posts. You can find it at www.brickpile.com. I post new entries there at least once a week, which is a lot more often than I ever did here.
Get a Gmail Invite
By now you’ve probably heard of gmail, Google’s new mail service. It’s in a “beta test” mode which means they won’t let just anyone sign up. But people who have accounts are issued a few invitations they can give out, so it spreads by word of mouth.
My Online History
This is a time capsule – written in 2003 to describe how my online life had evolved up to that point. Looking back in 2026, it all feels like ancient history.
The Tupperware Guy
Yes, you didn’t misread that – I used to sell Tupperware. I was “The Tupperware Guy.”
My Commodore History
When I was in 4th grade (1980-81; age 9), our elementary school got its very first computer – a Commodore PET with 32K of RAM, named Rudy (for the salesperson who sold it to our school). It was a PET 2001 computer, but it had a “real” keyboard, rather than the so-called “chicklet” keyboard. It ran BASIC 2.0 and used an external cassette drive to load software. But I wasn’t in that class.
A Life of Sailing
I’ve sailed all my life. My parents owned a sailboat since before I was born. When I was a kid we would take cruises to Monterey or Moss Landing (really the only one-day destinations from Santa Cruz) for a weekend, and occasional day-sails. I’ve always dreamed of sailing off into the sunset, but I don’t think I have the guts to do it…