And I was worried that the dog bed that I bought might not be big enough...

Ya gotta admit, she is darn cute sometimes...

Who says you need a truck to be a contractor?

Do I need to expand upon this?

Just say "no" to coffee tables...

Whilst pondering decor issues, I came up with the following thought:

"Decide what is more important: the item you want to put into a given space or the space itself."

Okay, so it is not that profound, but it came up during a discussion over coffee tables, which I am against. I think they are just crap collectors and if I want to have a place to put my feet I can use a cube storage ottoman, with the added bonus of putting blankets or something inside it. Unless you have a huge living room, a coffee table eats up a valuable space and ends up covered with magazines and garbage anyway. Just say no to coffee tables!

New restaurant: Stax

So I went and caught "The Savages" at Camelview this weekend and afterward ended up at a (relatively) new eatery on Scottsdale Road just south of Camelback. It is called Stax, and seems to be known for appetizer-sized burgers (including beef, ostrich, buffalo, duck, etc) as well as some cool sides like tater tots (go tots!), mac and cheese and sweet potato fries. It was filled with Scottsdale trend-igentsia but other than that it was pretty good.

Bye bye BMW?

So I decided to sell the BMW, putting it in Auto Trader, of course, the week right before Christmas. Duh. I finally got a decent lead on someone who might want it so I met him today and he took it for a spin.

It has been tough keeping two cars clean with no garage (as you may or may not know, my house was built in 1913 so garages were quite rare) so it will be nice to be down to one.

I'm gonna miss it though; once I move back to suburbia and land of three car garages (most of which are just full of crap so people STILL have to park theirs cars in the driveway) perhaps I'll get another toy like it.

The holidays are over!

That could be seen as good (no more angry shoppers/drivers/parkers) or bad (no more days off for a while). My highlight was getting knocked out in the first round of Wii boxing by my neighbors five-year-old daughter.

Hopefully it is not an omen for 2008...

Why I love and hate downtown Phoenix...

Love: You can go to a movie at the AMC24 at the Arizona Center and have an entire theatre to yourself, as my friend Kim and I did today when we went to see "Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story":














Hate: People park like assholes (though I suspect this is not limited to downtown Phoenix :). I'll bet the guy with the RAV4 is going to be a little pissed...