Free Ballin’

I arrived in Miami on December 28th ’08, without a place to stay.  I had floated numerous couchsurfing requests out to Miami CSers and received only one reply, negative.  She did direct me to an acquaintence, Brian, a recent couchsurfer, and I had an email out to him.  Without any other prospects, I checked into [...]

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Why are you here? I’ve asked so many people that question, over the last four months. Are you originally from Sacramento? Do you have family near Greenville? Was it Orlando, death, or tiki? I want to know why people are where they are. Family, school, work, and work-release are common answers. But people move to [...]

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It tires me just to think about the drive from North Carolina to Utah, but I’ll put it down here, for the record. I got a ride-share to Salt Lake City with a guy in Asheville, NC, who was heading to Montana for some business that was entirely legit, in a car that wasn’t, but [...]

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Uh, that stuff about ride-sharing v. hitchhiking?  Yeah, check that.  It looks like I’m going to get a little of both on this trip out from NC to LA. I posted on craigslist last week, looking for a ride-share, and got a response yesterday.  A guy in Asheville, NC is heading to Montana and I’m [...]

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I’m hitchhiking out of Charlotte today, up to the house of a friend of my mother’s, in Little Switzerland, NC, which I’m told is sensational, overlooking Mt. Mitchell (tallest peak east of the Rockies.) My next game is the Clippers/Celtics, on February 25th, in Los Angeles.  My plan is to stay in Little Switzerland for [...]

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A number of people have asked me what I thought of my week in Asheville, NC, and I have virtually nothing to say. I didn’t do Asheville. The allure of Asheville is the lifestyle and the attitude of the people who live there, and I had almost no interaction with anyone there, with two notable [...]

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Friend of mine does search engine optimization, said I should have more descriptive titles.  Howz that chica? I’ve spent more of the day wrestling with my computer, trying getting almost nowhere.  F#cking Linux.  I do think I’m going to bail on this distro, as soon as I have another leaf on which to leap.  Whatever, [...]

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The problem with hating Windows, for me, is that I hate Macs too.  And I also hate Linux, now.  And….well, that’s it, ey?  (Listen, nerd, don’t contradict me and name some obscure OS that’s less popular than  Neo Geo.)  I’ve spent so many hours today researching Linux distros that I just want to go Project [...]

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I’m just going through some photos and movies I’ve taken on the trip, thus far.  Doing some sorting, will post some soon.  I came across this pic of the press pass I got from the Mavericks for the Mavericks/Pacers game I covered on 11/25. Now I like the name of my blog, which is also [...]

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1. The first thing that popped into my head this morning, when I opened my eyes, was: how cool it would be if a sci-fi movie (complete with spaceships and aliens) put “Inspired by a true story” in the opening credits. 2. I don’t remember the second thing I wanted to note here, but that [...]

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