Category: Me

  • Take that old man winter!

    I’m not letting near-freezing weather stop me from eating awesome food. Pre-heating the BBQ for some ribs!

  • Garmin Swim

    For my birthday, my mother got me a Garmin Swim watch. The watch uses an accelerameter and gyroscope to figure out how many laps I’m swimming and what strokes I’m swimming. It’s not perfect, but it works well enough that it was able to allow me to focus on my strokes instead of counting intervals…

  • Repainting the Master Bath

    The basement bathroom needed some new paint and repairs for reasons I’ll get into in another post. But it got Danielle in a renovation mindset. So she decided to paint the master bathroom. And, in the course of examining the bathroom she found out that the vanity lighting was rusting and needed replacement. So we…

  • What I’ve been up to recently

    Interviewed for MyLinuxRig.com about my desktop setup and Linux history. Press Coverage of Baltimore Comic-Con 2014 And working on my graduate degree.

  • Car Odometer

    Yesterday, just outside my neighborhood, my Civic reached 100 000 miles. So far the only problem is that the radio’s a bit wonky with the front speakers.

  • Finally Got my URL

    Finally Got my URL: www.ericmesa.com

  • Other Articles I’ve written recently

    This’ll be a semi-recurring blog post highlighting some of my work on other websites. (Most often, but not necessarily, other sites I own/run) Race Flipping in Comic Movies over at Comic POW! in which I discuss Johnny Storm being cast with an African American actor in the new film. Autobiographies: Swimming Part 1 over at…

  • Bye Moviefone!

    I heard today that AOL is getting rid of Moviefone. Makes sense, I haven’t used it to find movie times in at least a decade. Shoot, I rarely even go to the Moviefone website. I just use Google’s ability to show showtimes, go to the actual theater’s website, or Fandango. Lots of people remember Moviefone…

  • Tick Tock

    Made a gamble last night. Time will tell whether it pays off.

  • Playing a little More with the Drawing Tablet

  • “Commissioned” Art

    Here are some of the things Scarlett has asked me to draw. There are a few themes I think you may notice.

  • The Song Stuck in my Head while Swimming Today

    Today while swimming it was “Jesus Loves the Little Children” stuck in my head. I haven’t thought about that song since about a year ago when I was comparing with someone from another denomination to see if they sang the same songs in Sunday School. Definitely a weird one to have in the noggin while…

  • Blurred Swims

    When I’m swimming I’m usually just repeating numbers over and over in my head so I don’t forget what lap I’m on – especially important on days when I’m doing 80 laps. Many times I end up saying the numbers along the beat/melody of a song. Today it was Robin Thicke’s Blurred Lines. “21 21…

  • San Francisco Trip Days 6 and 7: The Wedding (actually in Livermore) and Aftermath

    The wedding day went the way these things always go. If you’re not involved you’re spending most of the day waiting around until it’s time to get your nice clothes on and go to enjoy the wedding. I went to get In-N-Out Burger for lunch and learned that Scarlett really, really likes french fries. There…

  • San Francisco Trip Day 5: Off to Livermore

    Today’s post makes the series name somewhat inaccurate, hence the subtitle.  We awoke and, having spent the week debating the best course of action, decided it made the most sense for us to all go to the airport to pick up the rental car since it cost the same to get out there whether it…