To write the story of Alex, I have to start with the story of Harvey.
Harvey was an australian shepherd that was my first dog as an adult. I got Harvey about 2 seconds after I got married the first time and we secured a little house in San Diego to which we were moving. As [...]
A couple of years back, Amy and I went white water rafting on the south fork of the American River:
I’ve never really been much of an adrenaline junky…I didn’t like roller coasters when I was a kid or wanted to race motocross. I never wanted to wrestle a crocodile or hang glide.
However, I got an [...]
I don’t see that I have really written much about what I’ve been spending all of my time doing lately – I mean aside from all of the appointments getting to where we are with the IVF process and surviving a layoff.
As 40 came and went I thought it was a good time to take [...]
By popular demand I have chosen to keep the name of this blog as Brevet. I think that most people don’t know what it means anyway, making it semi-unique and a little foreign-sounding, making me seem a little bit cosmopolitan. I took out the other overt references to cycling, though, as this hasn’t been a cycling blog after [...]
I have lived in 17 different cities in my life – Port Hueneme, Oxnard, Camarillo, Westminster, Huntington Beach, Santa Maria, Ventura, Orcutt, Mission Viejo, Irvine, Costa Mesa, Pacific Beach (San Diego), Ocean Beach (San Diego), Walnut Creek, Martinez, Pittsburg, and Vallejo. Irvine had the best amenities, San Diego had the best weather, and Pittsburg had [...]
When I first started thinking about putting my thoughts out there in a blog format, I imagined I would spend most of my time writing about things I wanted to buy, and the research I put into making sure I got the right one (like in the first post about the Motorola Q). I’ve researched [...]
Long time away with my thoughts after all of my plans for the previous year came crashing down. I’m better now. Really.
Let me sum up the last three months: I didn’t lose my job unlike the 4 people I had to lay off under me. Disenchanted with my long term prospects in my current field, [...]
For over a year, Amy and I have been planning on a move to Colorado. All we had to do was sell our house and everything else was set to fall into place. Alas, it is not meant to be. The market has totally collapsed in Solano County. Between the foreclosures and other homes on [...]
A girl that works for me was out yesterday with a doctor’s appointment for her son. She thought she would be in by noon but ended up calling in to say that there were more tests they wanted to run and ended up taking the day off entirely. This caused a little bit of difficulty [...]
At the risk of sounding like I’m the crooked caretaker from Scooby-Doo (“and I would have gotten away with it if it wasn’t for those damn kids” – I’m paraphrasing), it sure seems like kids these days have a lot less respect for others/elders/anyone than we did growing up in the 70’s and 80’s. Is [...]