Everyday Living

a movie and late night gas stations

By Eric Richardson — May 24, 2004

Saturday night Kathy and I went up to Pasadena and saw Strayed (or Les Égarés, if you prefer) at the Laemmle Playhouse. Kathy's taken a lot of French, I haven't; so while she gets to listen to the movie, I read it. It was good. Anyway, that's not the point of this post. On the way back it was a touch after midnight and Kathy wanted somewhere to buy a soda....


wonders of the internet

By Eric Richardson — May 21, 2004
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Slashdot links to a CNN article about grocery delivery services right now, and that got me curious to see if anyone offers the service for 90014, my zipcode. Sure enough, Safeway/Vons does. The delivery charge is $8 for a 4-hour window or $10 for a 2-hour, which I think is really reasonable. You could spend that much right now just driving to the grocery store...


twice in one day

By Eric Richardson — May 20, 2004

I've ridden the subway for two round-trips in the last 24 hours, which I think is cool. An odd thing, though... Today, twice, I had the train stop outside of a station, apparently waiting for space to clear. This morning it was on the Red Line coming into Union Station. We sat still for a minute or two waiting for a train to clear the platform before continuing...


a little face time?

By Eric Richardson — May 20, 2004

Today is Metro's Bike To Work Day. Even though my bike's been messing with me lately I hopped on and headed over to 5th and Hill to catch the red line. I got downstairs just as a train was pulling out, so I got to wait the full 5 minutes for the next one. That's the second time in less than 24 hours I've had my hand on the door of a train just after the doors...


still with the car

By Eric Richardson — May 19, 2004

Got up and drove into work today, and realized it was the first time I've ever driven north on Hill. Multiple times I had to think about whether I was on the right street, since downtown just looks so different depending on which direction you're coming at it. In general the plan is to ride my bike into work, but today I drove so that I could run something...


ah food

By Eric Richardson — May 13, 2004

On the way back from lunch today I wasn't paying attention and walked straight past the front door to my building. Yeah, I'm still new here. I was feeling boring and hungry, so I just wandered over to the Subway on Hill/Fifth to get something to eat. This also sent me straight past the BofA ATMs on Hill between 5th and 6th, which was convenient. Across the...


wow. that was hard.

By Eric Richardson — May 12, 2004

8:30am, I get up, get dressed, and Magilla and I head over to the U-Haul center that's conveniently just like a mile away. We're getting a 17' truck for $29.95. Plus $5 handling fee to reserve it. Plus $14 for their insurance. Plus $10 for an appliance dolly. Plus mileage. So really not at all the $29.95 they advertise. But that's ok. I knew that going...


still fun with moving

By Eric Richardson — May 08, 2004

I helped a friend who's going to be living in the new apartment over the summer move his stuff in today. I figured, oh, it's saturday, downtown won't be busy. I was wrong. But we made it to the apartment ok, and successfully used the loading zone right out front for getting his stuff up to the fourth floor. We met one of our neighbors, a friendly hispanic...


The Palace

By Eric Richardson — May 03, 2004

So at the new digs today I checked and it is the Palace Theatre, as I had guessed when I looked at the picture I took out my window. Some of the old Broadway (the street in LA, not the place in New York) neon was relit earlier this spring. Cinema Treasures posted some good pictures showing the front sides of the Los Angeles and the Palace.


it's the little things

By Eric Richardson — May 03, 2004

Went down to the new apartment today to drop the first small load of stuff off and see if the power was turned on, etc. Each time I'm there it's the little things that strike me about how much I'm never going to miss City Park, the apartment building I've called home for two years now. First off, it's ridiculously hot right now. In City Park, the hallways...