Sad confession

This blogging thing is still new to me. So last night I came home from work and sat down here to explore more blogs. I know, I know. There are so many blogs out there I could spend literally every single moment of the rest of my life clicking around reading a new one every [...]

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Frivolous Condo Bath Lawsuit Story has Legs

Overlawyered.com published a note today about the Condo Bath Lawsuit story reported by Mike McPhee in the Denver Post last week.

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Another thing about Canadians

They built the CN Tower in Toronto. It’s 1815 ft/533 M tall.
And when you’re standing up there in the observation deck, you can take pictures of the world beneath your feet.NOTE: The “world beneath your feet” picture was taken with my camera, but not by me, by a friend.

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Why I love Canadians

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Small town, tiny minds, Faust v. fusty

The Denver Post front page (slooooww news day, obviously) today has this article about the latest small town-small minds brouhaha in the outlying town of Bennett. A trained professional singer and elementary school teacher there showed her class parts of a videotape about the Opera Faust. I think the video was called “Who’s Afraid of [...]

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About this downsizing thing

Bathrooms. The house I just sold and moved from, had three bathrooms. OK, two and a half.
Each bathroom was on a different level. They varied in size but in total they had several feet of cabinet/vanity storage space plus an entire closet.
Now as I unpack boxes here at the condo, I am [...]

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It’s always something . . .

I bought this condo the day before Thanksgiving. A fixer-upper to say the least. We tore out everything but the kitchen cabinets, shower and bathtub – and refinished those. I moved in two weeks ago, with much of the refurbishment done, but several things still pending.
I toodled off to work this [...]

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The Great Condo Bathtub Lawsuit: “Reckless and Negligent Use”

The Law Is Not An Ass, But No Thanks to Some Lawyers
Yesterday’s Denver Post ran a little article, reported by Mike McPhee, on page B3 that just frosted my cornflakes. As a condo owner and (OK, I admit it here in public) a l****r.
Seems a couple in their golden years – who presumably [...]

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Shirley Beaird

Got home from my shopping trip to find an email from the current proprietors of Murder by the Book, with sad news. Shirley Beaird, the co-founder and longtime owner of the store, died last Friday.
I didn’t know her well, but always enjoyed talking with her when I visited the store (and of course I [...]

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Shopaholic at large

I drive 28 miles each way between home and work, Monday through Friday. Alone in my car.
The people who promote carpooling are of course hawking a worthy thing, which reduces traffic congestion, hydrocarbon fuel consumption, and global warming.
Please join a carpool. Because I would rather swim in boiling oil than ride in [...]

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Michael Gilbert, 1912-2006, Crime Writer and Solicitor

I have just learned that Michael Gilbert, British crime writer and solicitor, died on February 8, 2006.
I discovered Gilbert’s crime novels as a young adult. Because his career as a novelist began about the time I was born, I had a richness of back titles to explore and enjoy. I treasure [...]

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Old dogs

Dusty

Rest in peace, little spirit. Run and play in the meadows of Heaven. Nap on God’s lap.
Until last month, all my life I had pets around the house – dogs, cats, or both. Usually more than one. When the inevitable parting came from a dog or cat, I could come home to the surviving one(s). [...]

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The Great American Untaught

At least here in the middle class quasi-’burbs it’s not so much the unwashed, as the marginally literate. This sign was proudly displayed last August. It may have been replaced by now with a correct one.

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Too cold, too tired

So much for that shopping I said I would do. It’s been a bitterly cold day, so cold it makes me hate to be outdoors even for a minute. And I’ve been so tired from the past few weeks that after I kept my appointment to have my hair done, I pretty much [...]

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Uh-oh, Condo stuff

This is definitely an adjustment. An old dog learning new tricks.
Me living in a condo, one of those where my front door opens into a hallway and there’s an elevator, and an underground parking garage with assigned spaces. The whole cliff dweller thing. After a lifetime in single family houses or townhouses, [...]

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Downsizing

Suz at Large is going small. Downsizing the housing!
I moved a week ago Thursday (February 9) into the condo I’d bought last November, and then on Friday the 10th I closed the sale of my townhouse.
I spent last weekend moving more things out of the townhouse, miscellaneous things not packed by me in time [...]

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