One thing we noticed fairly early on once we moved to Los Angeles is how little people walk. Okay let me re-phrase that – people tend to walk short distances here and no further.
Not long after getting some of her employees on board H began to talk about someone needing to go here or there [...]
Archive for March, 2009
Walking in Downtown Los Angeles
Posted in Uncategorized on March 23, 2009 | 5 Comments »
What the Hell Happened?
Posted in Uncategorized on March 21, 2009 | 2 Comments »
No idea why the pics from yesterday’s post are not showing up – will figure it out today so please check back and tell me if you can see them.
Come With Me On My Walk
Posted in Uncategorized on March 20, 2009 | 6 Comments »
Yesterday I was set to head over to my local Sprint store and check out their selection of phones in person and hands on. Of course the store is now closed (corner of 7th and Fig) so I came home and used Sprint’s store location tool to find two other options: Wilshire between Hope and [...]
More Debit Card Woes Downtown
Posted in Uncategorized on March 19, 2009 | 8 Comments »
You may remember a while back we talked about merchants requiring a minimum amount to use a debit card. Here is the post I’m talking about.
It’s a terrible practice to require a minimum purchase amount but H had an experience yesterday that was even more puzzling.
After work H visited a downtown salon to ummm I [...]
Our Cell Phone Dilemma
Posted in Uncategorized on March 18, 2009 | 10 Comments »
This coming Sunday our two-year contract with Sprint comes to an end once again. The two of us are in need of new phones and that’s where the dilemma begins, but first a little history.
Before moving to the United States I did not own a cell phone. As a matter of fact I resisted getting [...]
Hangin’ With Mr. Cooper (Not That Mr. Cooper)
Posted in Uncategorized on March 17, 2009 | 8 Comments »
Yesterday Blogdowntown gave us the heads up that AC 360, the nightly news magazine on CNN, would be broadcasting live from the Nokia Plaza.
Normally it’s tough to get in touch with H during the day but I sent an e-mail to her Blackberry with the following message taken from Twitter:
For CNN fans: Anderson Cooper is [...]
