Category Archives: Paul

The best thing about February was that it was mercifully short, and now it’s over. That’s also the worst thing about it, since I feel like I was trying to get more done in fewer days, because, well… I was!

March is going to be weird. I know that, it’s out of my control. The schedule is going to be chaotic, my nerves are already shot, and almost all of the rising bullshit levels (on a personal level at least, I take no responsibility for the state of the freakin’ WORLD!) are tied to it being a birthday month involving one of the “BIG” ones (with a zero!). It also requires a ton of paperwork and jumping through hoops for both the DMV and Social Security Administration, so there’s extra joy to swallow there!

Between this and that and the paperwork and the world and this week’s computer issues and everything else, I just want to grab the mother of all chanclas and just start walloping everyone and everything. Fortunately, but frustratingly, I’m too tired to do that.

“March Madness” is going to take on a whole new meaning around here.

No filters, not on my photos, not on what comes out of my head, either via my mouth or via my pen or keyboard. It’s easier that way.

Let’s do this, March!

When this is the first thing you see on your computer screen in the morning, the day is probably not going to go that well.

There were highlights every here and there, things did get fixed, and it was in the mid 70’s and wonderfully warm and toasty out in the Sun, but I was fixing computers and doing finance crap and answering emails and not allowed at all to go take a nap in the Sun out in the back yard like a cat. It sucks not being a cat.

Twenty years ago. I was getting my MBA from Pepperdine University. And I think that I’m busy and stressed NOW…

Then again, I was twenty years younger. It balances out. Or as a friend was fond of saying, “Everyone’s Hell is 100%.”

I was in the Executive MBA program, so we had a full three-day weekend of classes about every three weeks, rotating between the Irvine campus, the West LA campus, and the main Malibu campus. This was a rainy weekend at the Malibu campus, with the Rancho Palos Verdes peninsula across Santa Monica Bay to the south.

It was a great program, I learned a ton, I got do do some neat international traveling, I had some fantastic classmates, I’m really glad that I did it, and I’m sooooooo happy that I never have to do it again. Onward to new and exciting “challenges.”

Well, new for me, at least.

I like apples. I like variety. I like having a variety of apples!

I’m no Chuck Wendig – his social media and his website have had hundreds of posts about heirloom apples and apple snacks and everything related to apples for years and years. (He also writes some pretty awesome books! And was the guy behind all of the “Flash Fiction” prompts and posts about ten years ago.) But he has an advantage, living out in the Pennsultucky region where there are hundreds of family orchards growing heirloom apple varieties.

Here in California they’re 100% paranoid about importing fruit flies and other pests, so none of those fruits are allowed. You can’t go get them and bring them in, you can’t get them by mail order, you can’t have someone send them to you. You just get the five or six varieties in the chain grocery stores.

This one was new this week. I tried it today. Nice, I liked it! Mostly sweet, but a little bit of tang to it. Hard, not mushy. Huge, nice color.

Let me know if you see any Wild Twists and try them. I would like to hear what you think.

Is this the biggest news or the most important thing that happened today? No, not even close. But a lot of the big stuff is bad and worse. This was a good thing. Some days you need to pick your victories wherever you can find them, regardless of size.

A win is a win.