While I’m glad the election is over, I can’t believe people here in LA passed Measure R. I voted against this because even though I’m all for public transportation and better urban planning, LA already devotes 1 cent out of 8.25 cents of sales tax to transportation and I doubt the increase in sales tax [...]
Archive for November, 2008
More taxes…
Posted in Finance, tagged tax on November 6, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Cold-War
Posted in life, tagged DIY on November 6, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The circulation pump motor died @ my parents’ house so I endured cold showers for the last few days. Check out the capacitor on the now dead unit:
It was made in West Germany!
The new pump looks pretty much like the old unit, including the capacitor. (no picture of the new unit because I’m lazy and [...]
Bleary-eyed
Posted in life, tagged lines, OfficeMax on November 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
So this is what one does to save a buck around here.
I stood in line @ OfficeMax this morning @ 6:30 to get free case of paper for the next 6 months. OfficeMax had a grand opening special for the first 50 customers and the line wasn’t all that bad @ 6:30. I was [...]



