Archive for August, 2009

Friday Photo

Taken on Highland Ave outside of a trendy eatery.  Our local graffiti artists have really raised the bar as of late. I’m proud of them.

Of my being out of work, that is.  September 1.
That’s the day after my disability officially runs out, and the today the doctor opined that I’ll be okay to return to work at that time.
The foot’s not 100% healed yet (when I asked the doctor when I could expect this thing to be completely healed [...]

The 113 dBA alarm clock
If you think you can barge in from Sicily and change that, you’re wrong*!
Let’s hope it doesn’t come to the extra loud alarm clock.
Maybe I’m just cranky since I haven’t had a good night’s sleep in a week.
*Apologies to the angry ghost of John Steinbeck for taking such [...]

Like many older Southern California dwellings, my building has no insulation (it’s paradise, right? It never gets cold here so let’s save on construction costs), so the hollow walls combined with lath-and-plaster construction conduct vibration from the hardwood floors in the unit above mine really well.
Thanks to the former landlady and her batshit crazy, said [...]

Friday Photo

Disney Hall on the Holga. This is from last year, and has been festering in the depths of my Flickr stream (I get 500 views of my mangled foot, but there’s no love for the good photos) ever since then.   More recent photos are festering on a roll of 35mm that I just haven’t gotten [...]

Same old, same old.

The days, they all seem the same. Wake up, drink coffee, go to physical therapy,  go to gym or go to pool, come home to bad TV and noisy neighbors. The foot’s getting better but not yet 100% healed and  I’m going crazy because I really want to get back to work but can’t just [...]