When the wife and I go out to dinner, there are two conditions I hope to avoid: (a) Not being able to find parking, and (b) being the only customer in the place. Last night it was the latter. We went to the Uptown Market, partly because we really like the food and service there, and partly because they had recently announced new expanded hours and we […]
Jury duty redux
Once again, I was summoned for jury duty. Once again, I was dismissed after spending half a day at court, shivering in the hyperactive AC. I’m beginning to think lawyers mistake my naturally shifty look for a vengeful nature. Maybe it’s just as well. You only get paid $40 a day. And after the judge explained the facts of the civil case in question, I was already […]
One lab rat to another
Who among us has not spent 15 minutes perusing Facebook without at some point concluding that life could be better? Show of hands. Now we know why. It’s not that life sucks, per se; it’s just that the geniuses at Facebook were messing with us. They wanted to know if small variations in the number of cat videos and dinner entrees and vacation sunsets could have an […]
A little history lesson
You put things off and then one morning you wake up and say: Today I will clean out the garage. (Apologies to Charles Portis.) So I spent most of Friday ineffectually moving stuff around in an attempt to organize it. The garage did look tidier for a time, mostly because most of the crap (below right) was sitting out on the driveway. But the day wasn’t a […]
Mind if I vape?
The word “vape” has been around at least a decade, but I predict it will become one of the most overused words of 2014, and one of the most overdone activities. When I saw Julia Louis-Dreyfus puffing away on an e-cig at the Golden Globes, I realized that old-fashioned cigarettes are on the way out. Hollywood giveth, and Hollywood taketh away. Most of us who used to […]
It’s a seller’s market
When you start getting unsolicited offers from people wanting buy your house, I’d say the market has definitely turned around. We got this letter in the mail yesterday, with no return address. Gerald, it’s clear, is talking about a top-dollar offer. You can tell because he has spared no expense in his property acquisition program. Those dollar signs don’t come cheap. I’m blurring out his phone number […]
I’m dreaming of a nice condo
A few weeks ago we made a deal to have a new roof put on this old house. Since then it’s been raining off and on, either fitfully or in earnest, and the project hasn’t gone as quickly as I’d hoped. It’s raining again today — right after the crew stripped the ancient metal from east side of the roof. They were able to get it covered […]
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