The floor-level outlet that has provided the power to our entertainment unit has long needed upgrading. It’s old two-pronger (as evidenced by the interesting decorative detail around the plugs, as shown above) that has been an overloaded trooper in steadily supplying the needed juice through an eight-outlet powerstrip to all our audio/visual stuff. But it …
This is how I handled the horror.
So I got on a plane yesterday morning and flew to Dallas for a trade show I have to work pretty much nonstop until Saturday when I come home. At my first opportunity, which proved to be at 10:30 p.m. last night, instead of heading back to my hotel after a pre-convention event at the …
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, …
I biked downtown this morning to L.A. Live. Grand plans had me getting down there at 6 a.m. for breakfast at the Pantry and then hanging out until Obama gave his first speech as the 44th President of the United States of America. What actually happened was that I left the house around 8: 15 …
Early on in the planning stages of the upstairs renovation, Susan left a folder on my desk containing documents related to the house that I leafed through again this morning — this time a bit more studiously. Some deal with the foundation work she had done when she bought the house in 1999, and others …
It’s pretty much taken most of my life for my mother to gain position possession of the trunk pictured above that’s been in her family she thinks since perhaps as far back as when they came to this country from Wales, whenever the heck that may have been. Seriously, my mom wanting this thing and …