
Fifteen or so people got off the trolley at the university station. Everybody headed for the elevator, except one. He had a puzzled look as he stared at the crowd squeezing into the elevator.
"Did I miss something?" he was probably thinking. "Are the stairs closed?"
No, I wanted to tell him. You are heading for the stairs because you are the only one who is fit enough to do so. Or care enough about being fit.
But I didn't -- the doors had closed and the trolley had started moving out of the station. The kid stood there still looking up the stairs.
trolley tales 11: take the stairs
Monday, August 04, 2008Posted by - norman at 7:00 AM 0 comments
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live post: pre-yank dindin
Friday, August 01, 2008Posted by - norman at 7:05 PM 0 comments
eli's back
Tuesday, July 29, 2008When Derek called again after the visit to the vet, nothing was a surprise to me: same diagnosis, same medication, same precautions. My only worry was that it might be worse than the first time.
We're on the 12th day of his 20-day restricted exercise/mobility period. He has completed his regimen of steroid and muscle relaxant. He seems to be his good old self, but his hind legs are definitely weak. I'm hoping to see more improvement in the coming days.
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live post: earthquake
We just had a magnitude 5.8 earthquake at 11:42am, centered a few miles southwest of Chino Hills east of Los Angeles (google map). This one was a "swaying" quake, at least where I am right now. Most tremors I've felt in Southern California had been the rolling type, just rumbling through. This type reminds me of the ones we have in the Philippines.
I had been thinking of going to lunch right before it happened. I thought I was just really hungry and was starting to get dizzy. :)
Sent from my iPhone.
Update: The magnitude was later reduced to 5.4.
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GMCSD Performance at GALA 2008
Sunday, July 27, 2008
Excerpts from three of the four songs we sang at the Knight Hall (Adrienne Arsht Performance Center) in Miami on July 17, 2008.
live post: "Heroes" at Comic-Con
Saturday, July 26, 2008I was foolish to think that getting to the San Diego Convention Center at 8:45 for the 10:30 Q&A with the cast of Heroes would get us into the hall, let alone getting seats. Wrong. Clearly dead wrong. The line, six-person-deep, looped around the whole length of the convention center all the way to the Marriott Hotel. People had camped out last night.
So Guillermo (a Comic-Con virgin) and I are here at the Bondi having breakfast. Bacon and egg panini, cup of coffee. Milo Ventimiglia and Greg Grunberg will just have to do the Q&A session without me.
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