Today, I read in the New York Times about plans to redevelop downtown Los Angeles. That may seem odd, but so does the proposed design. Unfortunately, the architect behind the overall plan is Los Angeles’ own Frank O. Gehry, who… Continue Reading
No blog entry for several days. Sorry, Loyal Readers; I’ve been busy. It’s astonishing to me that, for a man with no regular job, I should be so busy all the time. How did I ever keep up when I… Continue Reading
After such an exciting live class two weeks ago, I was unhappy about having to take a week off and start my momentum over again. And losing momentum is exactly what happened; my class was a bunch of duds tonight.… Continue Reading
Our house has been on the market for five days. Today, we received an offer to buy the house at our asking price. While that would have been about right in the real estate market The Wife and I left… Continue Reading
I don’t have a ton of extra cash right now, but I’ve always been curious about the stock market. So I’m going to run a thought experiment here. Let’s say I had money to invest. How would I do it?… Continue Reading
To give you Loyal Readers an idea of what we’ve done recently, here is a picture of the spare bedroom. This is just a detail, showing one corner of the spare bedroom. Previously, there was beige pile carpeting with plain… Continue Reading
These were on the discount aisle of our local Wal-Mart tonight. Now, so far as I know, I’m still capable of making my own. But, some guys can’t, and for them, $6.87 for a package is probably a pretty good… Continue Reading
We’re trying to sell our house so we can move to California. For the past two days, I’ve been working on the house to get it in good shape. Yesterday, my dad and I put in a laminate floor in… Continue Reading
There’s been a lot of commotion over what seven retired generals have recently said about the war and specifically about Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and how he has been handling the military for the past five years. Some suggest… Continue Reading
An ego the size of his native Guatemala graces this blogger, for whom I secretly suspect English is his first language. His story about science in the morning made me laugh out loud. Have any of my friends in DC… Continue Reading