White Boy/White Dog Move To Skid Row

Certified Beach Dude Moves To Downtown Los Angeles

I am not too big of a man to admit when I am wrong, and I was SO wrong about almost everything involving my contract at the insurance company in the Valley. First off, I thought an insurance company would be the most boring, technologically impared company to work at. WRONG!
The [...]

Origami, the new Sushi/Fusion place on the ground floor of the Douglas Lofts (NW corner of 3rd ans Spring) has been a long time in build-out phase; I’ve been walking by construction there for over a year on my way to the gym, wondering how the place was going to be. I must say, [...]

Pitfire Pizza has always had a bad case of “the rules change depending upon who is working”. Tonite was the final straw with them- they honestly are not that good that I ever need to visit them again.
Tonite I went down to get the happy hour pizza special- half off from 4pm [...]

We both love “The Greatest American Dog” TV/Reality show- how can we not, as dog lovers? Of course, we were bummed when the Jack Russell got booted off the show after the 2nd or 3rd week, but we knew that would happen as it was being a pain-in-the-ass dog to the other contestants- just [...]

The one huge problem at Higgins is lack of (secure) parking- there are a few lucky folks who have parking in the building, but they are very few. Most park behind the building in a “Joe’s Lot” that leaves much to be desired. For awhile there were a rash of break-ins and it was [...]

After living 2 blocks from The Redwood Bar & Grill for over 16 months now, I must say I’ve only been in there a few times, and it always seemed dull and dreary (well, it IS very dark, with it’s pirate’s cavern theme and no windows). I’m sure it does a good lunch crowd [...]

I was rudely awakened at shortly after 6am today by weird sounds, and rumblings, coming from below. I stumbled out of bed still groggy after waking up at my normal 3:30am (I forgot to turn off the alarm) and finally getting back to sleep- I looked at LAPD HQ and could not see what [...]

Damn, my sleep schedule is screwed… when I worked at home, day/night meant nothing. Sometimes I would work 18 hours straight with barely a bathroom break. But now I am forced to “turn on” and “turn off” my “thinking process” in accordance to when the client wants me to work- I don’t want [...]

It’s Friday- I’ve survived my first week working at a client’s site in almost 7 years, and I did it by relying on Los Angeles public transportation- something I thought was damn near impossible. I must give credit to my friend DGlobetrotter who just happened to decide to take the bus/train trip from her [...]

When I decided to try the “green” commute thing, I got all anal and printed out all the schedules for the rail and connecting buses (there are 2 possiblities for me to catch), both going and returning, for all possible time-windows. I had nice tables like this for my 2:00 to 2:30 pm departure [...]