The Further Misadventures With Our Samsung Fridge

So last week, a technician came out and restored our suddenly dead 2-month-old fridge to working order, by diagnosing the problem as a refrigerant leak and making the necessary repairs and refills. All was cool, literally, until less than 24 hours later when the fridge started making this noise for extended periods of time: Sometimes …

Supersize Me

I’ve proudly tossed this pano I snapped yesterday morning up on Blogging.la, Facebook, Flickr and the wall of the Mobil Station bathroom on Silver Lake Boulevard and Bellevue. The reason I’m posting it here isn’t just because I’m incorrigibly redundant so much as incorrigibly interested in showing off the largest version of the image so …

Shit Happens

As evidenced by discovering two relatively fresh piles on the parkway today while sweeping up the frontyard and sidewalk, either one dog-walker or more have become perfectly OK with their pooch pooping in front of our house and then failing to remove the fecal matter. As such I’m mulling over the following options for signage …

Too Cute: Chair Rhymes With Share

Pepper Cat and Ranger Dog in the latest episode of their occasional series of adorable inter-species interactions. In this segment we find the two sharing the study club chair with Pepper ingratiating himself upon Ranger, who makes a great and willing pillow:

One Ride, Two Peeves

Lest we continue to forget, contrary to popular belief (click for the bigger pictures): 1) A Class II Bike Lane is NOT the designated location to stand your cans on trash day no matter how it might seem to ignorant people to be the perfect perfect place to do so. 2) A Class I Bike …

It’s Binky, It’s Binky, So Fun He’s A Wonderful Boy!

Just a vid* I got with The Bink during his surprise visit Friday afternoon to the landing at the bottom of the stairs. * Sorry for its small dimensions. I had to shrink it down to make the file size fall with WordPress’ parameters.

Beautiful Morning. Great Ride.

Instead of the usual double loop around the Silver Lake reservoir, I detoured down to the LA River to ride the new extension of its bikeway, coming back toward Silver Lake using the “super secret” ped/bike path that parallels the southbound lanes of the 110 Freeway. Then I came up and over Elysian Park past …