Archive for February, 2009
Thursday, February 26th, 2009
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 [...]
3 Comments » - Posted in home economics by Will
Wednesday, February 25th, 2009
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 down [...]
9 Comments » - Posted in home economics by Will
Saturday, February 21st, 2009
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 [...]
6 Comments » - Posted in biking, sports by Will
Wednesday, February 18th, 2009
Morning Snap: Earth Angel
It’s a mad hectic convoluted crazy work week that’s left me off my bike for two straight rainy days and waking to anxiety attacks at 3 a.m.. For better or worse it will all be behind me in a few more days, so in the meantime I took a few seconds to stop on my [...]
2 Comments » - Posted in morning snap by Will
Monday, February 16th, 2009
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 the [...]
3 Comments » - Posted in computers by Will
Sunday, February 15th, 2009
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:
1 Comment » - Posted in biking, gatherings, happenings by Will
Friday, February 13th, 2009
Confessions Of An Unrepentant Addict
Well, me going cold turkey in canceling my subscription with the L.A. Times lasted all of two weeks. No, I’m not going back. Not yet at least. But being that my newsprint addiction is lifelong and irreversible, I can’t go any longer without a fix — and sorry, but all the internet news out there [...]
2 Comments » - Posted in los angeles, media, news by Will
Thursday, February 12th, 2009
Now I Really Need To Look Up The Word “Genius” Because In The Context That Apple Uses It To Describe Their Service Personnel It Really Doesn’t Mean That
Cell phone rings, it’s one of them geniusesses from the Glendale Apple store.
First thing out of his mouth after introducing himself is “You don’t have any RAM in your computer.”
“I mull that weirdly accusatory statement and offer a rephrasing that was more specific: “My computer most certainly had RAM in it when I dropped it [...]
2 Comments » - Posted in computers by Will
Wednesday, February 11th, 2009
Time In A Bottle
Finally! After a few weeks of upstairs demo work with nothing much revealed/discovered for it but a lot of original (read that: archaic) knob-and-tube electrical wiring, a really old rat trap (with a really old rat skull) and some equally aged walnut shells, this morning I went into the destruction zone for a peek [...]
2 Comments » - Posted in backyarchaeology by Will
Tuesday, February 10th, 2009
Putting The “Trap” In Contraption
Inspecting the latest stage in the demolition work continuing up on the second floor, I made something of a gruesome discovery this morning while getting a closer look at the space between the kitchen and the dining room that had been revealed beneath the floorboards that had been ripped up from inside the closet that [...]
