• Five (Six) Challenges for 2024

    Five (Six) Challenges for 2024

    It is “Bloganuary” here at WordPress.com and while I do not remember such a challenge in past Januarys the web content management system has always had Day One and other word prompt programs to encourage their bloggers to write. This challenge is very, er, challenging. Especially considering I don’t write very often anymore. Below are Read more

  • Year End Wrap Up for the A’s

    Year End Wrap Up for the A’s

    I thought I wasn’t going to post about the A’s anymore unless something significant happened. I lied. Here’s a bitter-sweet piece by Brodie Brazil I thought was worth re-posting. Nothing new here, just a Thank You from one of the Bay Area’s biggest A’s fan to all the A’s fans who follow him. Read more

  • My Short Love Affair with Popular Music. A Remix

    My Short Love Affair with Popular Music. A Remix

    Of the nearly 380 posts I have published on this and my previous blog, I have reposted only a few (including The Triple, which I have posted three times). If I had the time, I would repost all of them now that better grammar-check tools are available. You, dear reader, are now reading another of Read more

  • Goodbye A’s. Hello B’s!

    Goodbye A’s. Hello B’s!

    Oakland is getting another baseball team. No, there has not been any talkabout Oakland getting an expansion team. Oakland is getting the Ballers. TheOakland Ballers have obtained $2 million in initial funding from 50 investorslinked to Oakland and the wider East Bay region. In addition, ownershipwill soon have a crowdsourcing site so that more people can Read more

  • Observations from the Mat #8: Y6 & Vinyasa

    Observations from the Mat #8: Y6 & Vinyasa

    About a month ago, I signed up as a member of Yoga Six. As the company’s name implies Yoga Six offers 6 different types of yoga classes, but it comes out to about eight (if you include the least scheduled Y6 TRX (yoga with the popular suspension weight training) and Y6 Mix (a 45 minute Read more

  • A Date That Will Live in Infamy

    A Date That Will Live in Infamy

    Well, they did it. The billionaire baseball owners voted unanimously to move the Athletics to Las Vegas. Barring any surprises, the team will be the Las Vegas Athletics by 2028. Sickening. Though, there’s still controversies: the proposed 33,000-seat ballpark that would be located on only 9 acres, architects claim that is not enough space to Read more