Today was an odd day. I took it off from work because Susan and I had planned a “summit” with the architect and contractor regarding our upstairs disrenappovationtment (aka the $62,000 bath tub) — and that actually concluded quicker than I’d figured and more importantly on a positive with some hope that with a redesign …
It may still be a couple weeks until spring gets sprung, but to a batch of Ballona Creek amphibians making a racket loud enough to stop me and my bike cold last night for an appreciative listen, it’s already here. Hear them for yourself in this audio I captured on-scene last night by the Duquense …
For pretty much every year since its inception in 1985, the L.A. Marathon has taken place on the first Sunday of March, and for the last 15 of those first Sundays I’ve gotten my ass up at some ungodly hour, and gotten my ass out there either to jog/walk the marathon, ride the bike tour, …
Yep, contrary to as things may seem I’m not just sitting in a corner ratzafratzin’ over the twists and turns the renovation is taking. In fact, among the motions I’m going through I’m still doing those timelapsifications of my to/from bike commutes. Usually though, I’ll only post something about them if there’s something that takes …
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 …
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 …
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 …