White Boy/White Dog Move To Skid Row

Certified Beach Dude Moves To Downtown Los Angeles

EDIT: Yes I did hit gym for first time in 7 weeks (roughly)- Sat and Sun. Kinda lame gym unless you are a cardio freak- the best “free” apt gym I’ve seen.
THIS PLACE IS GONNA BE CRAZY IN SUMMER- JR. OLYMPIC plus SPA IS OUTSIDE THE DOOR- PLUS MENS AND WOMENS BATHROOMS WITH [...]

This place really is “on the ball” with communications- they have a decent blog and take survey via web. And they communicate via e-mail, which I love. So today I get an interesting e-mail addressed to residences here- excerpt below:
Dear Valued Residents,
Here at Capitol Towers we take pride in creating an outstanding living [...]

I was pretty happy when I was apartment shopping via Craigslist- almost every complex allowed dogs- a lot like downtown LA. But really I have not seen many dogs- people actually look at me funny when I’m walking White Dog- kinda like “what are you doing here?”
But the worst thing is NONE of the [...]

I cannot believe there is a place that is worse for finding fast food than downtown Los Angeles- but there are NO mainstream fast food places in the entire “Sacromento Proper” which is about the same size as downtown LA. Plug my zip code (95814) into any restaurant’s locator- McDonald’s, Burger King, Carl’s Jr [...]

This is the honest-to-god e-mail I got from my dog walker. And yes, Isis is a magnet for anybody- too bad I am not
Hey Eric,
Quick note to let you know that Isis was quite the “chick magnet” today. We walked to Old Town Sac. and on the way a really nice looking [...]

So one of my co-workers (contractor too) is very out going- and from Austin, Texas (another contractor that started at same time is from Ft. Lauderdale, FL). These guys are not like me and didn’t HAVE to move - my dog was my main constraint - so they still have lives in their hometowns.
Anyway, [...]

You Los Angeles folks know about the cold/flu I speak of- there is one going around down there that took me out for about a week- no going to gym, no dating, nothing. Then I get up here to Sacto and several co-workers were out my first week due to cold/flu (I never know [...]

You will not believe how much life is improved when your commute is a walk across the street.
Yeah, I’ve worked at home for years at a time- but there’s something missing doing that- the “water cooler talk”, the lunch with team members, the b.s.ing while going to get a cappacino at the cafe downstairs, and [...]

I just spoke with “W” - the project manager on my old “Mall” project and told him how impressed I was with this governement agencies’ ability to develop and deploy large applications, and he asked about how the project managemer was- to which I replied “there is NO project manager”….
I generally have no use for [...]

Today was first day at CA Dept of Social Services (CDSS). I am completely blown away by the quality of the Lotus Notes / Domino application they have, and particularly impressed by my new “Boss”. She is a middle-aged lady- probably my age, and she was one of the original developers of this [...]