Author Archives: Kari Neumeyer

Monday The tree that was decapitated during a recent windstorm is getting a little more room to stretch its roots. The work crew is down there now, with a Kubota excavator thingie that keeps dropping large slabs of concrete on the asphalt while the workers cringe. Am way too hungry for it not to beContinue reading

1.21 jigowatts I can’t remember the last time I was so involved with a book. I looked forward to going home and reading some more. Two nights in a row, I passed up watching Diff’rent Strokes DVDs with Rob. I read a short story during my lunch break the other day, and I like, missedContinue reading

Evidence Take back my PETA membership, I’ve experimented on animals. Using Jellyfish genes to make glow-in-the-dark bacteria, if you must know. Then Rob and I took this portrait.

Next stop, mensa I took this while we stood in a sunbeam in order to stay warm while waiting for the light rail in downtown San Jose. I was like, what the hell is that black square? Rob said, “That’s your camera, you doof.” This was taken March 10:

Getaway On Friday, Rob and I are going to San Jose during a rare 48-hour period during which neither one of us has to work. We going to the historic, first-ever, state-sanctioned Mixed Martial Arts fight in California. Rob has trained with Frank Shamrock and he’s a helluva nice guy. Sportsmanlike. I’ve been looking forwardContinue reading

Treatment Have self-diagnosed and decided that my lower back pain is in my sacroiliac joint. I’ve got some bum joints. (Oh, hey, that was kind of a pun!) It didn’t bother me much over the weekend but as soon as I sat butt in chair on Monday morn, it was killing me. Even with myContinue reading

Information delivery system Yesterday, the chief of large city bureau for an elite newspaper held up a tattered album cover of a Beatles record in one hand and the current issue of said newspaper in the other. He called them both relics. Nobody buys Beatles albums on vinyl anymore, and hardly anyone listens to itContinue reading