Four years of Hippocleides

That’s right, it’s been four years. And it’s been a wild ride.

My most productive month was February 2004 with 26 blog entries. My weakest months were July 2004, April 2007, and June 2007 with only two blog entries each.

402 posts and 560 comments. 67 photo albums.

Countless web designs and header images.

I started with manually editing an html file on the good ol’ snowcrash.org server. Then I moved on to Blogger. I soon grew tired of the limitations of Blogger and installed Movable Type on snowcrash.org and registered the teebiss.com domain, graciously hosted by Smitty and the halibut crew. After a couple of years wrestling with Movable Type I moved on to WordPress and a new webhost. WordPress has been a dream to work with.

Chico. College. Hayward. Unemployment. My mother’s death. Despair. Comcast. Miriam. Brentwood. Happiness at last.

Maybe Hippocleides *does* care, after all?

Yosemite, August 2007

This update has been a long time coming. Here’s the short version…

Drove up to Yosemite after work on Saturday, August 25th. Spent the night sleeping on the ground at Porcupine Flat. Drove up to Lake Tenaya to meet Yum’s cousin Agnes and Agnes’ daughter Blanche. Ate lunch and lounged in the sun. Drove up to Tuolumne Meadows and got frosty cones. Spent a couple hours wading in the river and looking for gold. Drove home.

Me & Yum

You know what to do.

Nineteen Ninety Five

Jazz on my little transistor radio in the window. Smoke rising from an old soup can ashtray. Wild Berry Zinger tea that my mom bought me. The cool ocean breeze. Freedom. Goodbye, Navy. Hello, CSULB. Rushing TKE. Surfing in the morning before school. Working at Moose McGillycuddy’s. Sitting on the front stoop with Dan. Breakfast at The Potholder. Drinking my first cafe latte. Cigar shops on every corner. Z-pizza. 2nd street. Playing Doom on my first PC. Sleeping on Andy’s couch for two months. Jogging on Seal Beach. Surfing the rivermouth until well after dark. Reading Bukowski. Watching the freaks line up at The Library after midnight. Family reunion in Strawberry. Getting drunk with my cousins. Begging Dave to move to SoCal. Monica sleeping on my kitchen floor with Critter. Falling asleep in the sun on the lawn in my apartment complex’ back yard. Making new friends. Making new memories. Life.