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Dave Rice 7:20 a.m., May 24
Right Smack Dab in the Middle
Entries
The Crow Conspiracy
Halloween is as good a day as any to reveal this: A dark and sinister conspiracy is gathering over San ...
Wheeeeeee.......
Over the bridges and through the hoods—as the song goes in my head—a scoo-ter-ing we will go! With the wind ...
You can’t choose your neighbors
Karl “Mind-Your-Own-Business” Smarks lives on the floor below mine, and when he moved in last year we “had words.” He ...
Look! LA!
So I took the little missus up to LA for the day. Left the sunshine and the safety of San ...
Tough Times (or) The Rise and Fall of a San Diego Enterprise
So I'm standing there watching this transaction take place. A group of smokers across the street from the Fashion Valley ...
A Grant Writer's Story
I live and work in San Diego, but sometimes I have to put myself in a fictitious world to do ...
Heat Wave, Weather or Not
Here we go! Summer's first heat wave, and San Diego changes clothes like one big happy family arriving at the ...
Where will all the flowers go?
A strange, frightening uproar, like screeching and screaming, came through my window last week, and at first I thought it ...
Coulda. Shoulda. Woulda.
I had a dream last night. It was a revision of history. The Chargers had beat Cincinnati (28 – 14) ...
TRYING TO MAKE A DOVETAIL JOINT
Fixing a hole in the ocean, trying to make a dovetail joint, lookin’ through a glass onion" - John Lennon ...
Hell-For-Sure Pass
HELL-FOR-SURE PASS People who leave San Diego to backpack in the Sierra Nevada Mountains should know what could happen. At ...
MY FAREWELL SPEECH
Work at the Census Bureau all but came to a dead halt on the last Friday of July, and most ...
Stoking the Campfire of Love
Ours was an on-again, off-again affair that had been discussed for months. It finally took place on Christmas, the only ...
CREDIT CARD BOB
I got another call from Bob this morning. Bob wanted money, money I owe and money I will repay. But ...
Getting to the Post Office
Being the gung-ho type—early-rising and full-steam ahead—I sprang out of bed one morning last week knowing exactly what I had ...
Stage III, so back off!
Right now I’m in the third stage of quitting, the one where I’m grouchy. Did I type grouchy? Stupid me. ...
A Better Way?
When my friend Mariko told me that she had never been to the desert, I suggested a camping trip. (Mariko ...
The Scenes of the Crimes
Several immortal memories remain from my long residency in University City. They are crimes, and they stand out in my ...
MISSION VALLEY FOR DUMMIES
INTRODUCTION Let’s say you end up in Mission Valley. Job relocation, love interest, finances—or maybe you just like what you ...
Round Trip
I wake up in my Mission Valley apartment and something seems wrong. The marine layer is inches above my head. ...
