A blog about SoCal food and travel, with a spicy Asian flair
Marching along we’re adventurers/ Singing the song of adventurers/ Up or down, North, South, East, or West, an Adventurer’s life is best!
We lived thru, and self-evacuated from, the 208k acre Cedar Fire in 2003 and the 248k acre Witch Fire in 2007 in San Diego county, with an asthmatic child. The most petrifying part was being unable to access any data regarding fire location and spread. We were expected to sit by our phones and evacuate when (and if) the call...
Might be a good time to check your Experian account. We had to remake ours.
Built just before the turn of the century in 1878 by migrant Chinese workers, the Tehachapi Loop enables a 77 foot elevation gain in a small valley by snaking the line in a complete 360 loop – dramatically increasing the run over the rise in order to maintain no more than a 2 percent grade. 3000 workers carved this trail...
https://www.powerlanguage.co.uk/wordle/ He Made Wordle for His Partner. Now It’s an Online Hit. https://nyti.ms/3HxJkt2
I love my Venu SQ fitness smartwatch so much! Square like the Apple watch, 4 day battery life, syncs to Strava, records sleep, heart rate, stress, SpOx, hydration, with a mature, easy to use interface and ALL the stats. A data mongers dream. And I get all my notifications with customizable list of replies. And the music edition lets you...
One of my favorite bloggers… Barry Ritholz. https://ritholtz.com/2021/09/misunderstanding-narratives-the-heros-journey/ “A hero who goes on a great adventure, where a great challenge awaits; confronted with a crisis, the Hero has a crucial realization, allowing him to emerge victorious, returning home transformed by the experience. This is a great structure for creative works, as it sets up the narrative in 3 parts, including...
– Can we stop beating up Simone Biles now? https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/simone-biles-aunt-dies-olympics/#app – Before the NY AG report, Andrew Cuomo long claimed to be a champion against sexual harassment and attacked GOP politicians for staying silent https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2021/08/04/politics/kfile-andrew-cuomo-past-comments/index.html – Russian officials to investigate possible consequences to flipping space station https://gizmodo.com/russian-official-experts-to-investigate-possible-cons-1847423624 “This seems ripe for conspiracy theories. This is Russia’s last piece before they...
Spending a relaxing day changing passwords. Why would someone hack my Facebook account then delete it? Makes no sense.
From The New York Times: How Humanity Has Unleashed a Flood of Zoonotic Diseases “As we degrade animal habitats, reduce biodiversity and reach ever deeper into the wilderness for resources, we’re all but certain to encounter more diseases like Covid-19. Between 60 and 75 percent of emerging infectious diseases in humans come from other animals, [such as] rabies, Lyme, anthrax, mad cow disease, SARS,...
“The Stoneman Douglas shooting is where our generation draws a line. Our parents and grandparents did not succeed in ensuring our safety at school. So we must do it ourselves.“
Above headline is mine, not the NYT https://mobile.nytimes.com/2018/01/13/us/hawaii-missile.html “Vern T. Miyagi, the administrator of the agency, said that during the drill, an employee — whom he did not identify — mistakenly pushed a button on a computer screen to send out the alert, rather than one marked to test it. He said the employee answered “yes” when asked by the...
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I love discovery, adventure, and the unexpected and my partner loves points and miles. Based in San Diego, our goal is to reach every continent, World Heritage Site, and Disneyland park…and everything in between. This blog is our trail of breadcrumbs. Join us…and Kungaloosh!
