Well My Reader Buds Marilyn And Mike Were Right… It’s Probably The Architect’s Doing — And The Engineer’s

So on my previous post I lamented large and loud and long about that dang City of Los Angeles Department of Building & Safety requiring the back half of the house to be reinforced to a ridiulously heavy-duty level if we were to dare to consider widening the dormer and adding a bathtub to the …

We Got Hit With A Doozy

Sorry for the lack of posting these last few days. Part of it is do to the last bits of on-the-job stressness and another part is the shellshock I’m suffering over our latest renovation revelation. Read on… So our architect left an email message for Susan prior to this past weekend. He’d taken the plans …

We Are Marshal!

I got all hyped up about the Tour of California coming to town and with it the greatest field of professional cyclists ever gathered together in the United States and decided to volunteer as a course marshal. While I’d been hoping to be positioned somewhere around the Rose Bowl, instead I was assigned to marshal …

The Mac Is Back

Today would be the two-week anniversary of me dropping off my iMac at the Glendale Apple Store, to replace a failing logic board, but fortunately the work was completed and I was able to retrieve it Saturday. I’d written about the issues I had with being forced into paying for a data transfer option by …

Taking The Fifth

Scenes from Friday the 13th’s “Take The Fifth” ride in celebration of the fifth anniversary this month of the first Midnight Ridazz: