View from my “Loft”
For five weekends I have been struggling to downsize from a 3 bedroom house to a small newly converted garage apartment in the hills of Monterey. I likely moved, re-boxed…
Phase 1 – Create a Sorting Space
Given I left Maryland for California in 2018 with nothing more that what fit in my car, one might think I am a hoarder. Yet every purchase was planned—mostly to…
Living in Paradise
OK – the anti-vaxxers are dying at a rate of 1000 day. Good riddance, less MAGA idiots. The rest of America doesn’t give a fuck, so the US will have…
I Will be Missing my Kitchen
Oh sweetheart, how I will miss you. But you are just too high maintenance. It’s time to move on.
The Unsung Hero – C-17 Globemaster III
I recall a few test failures of the wing back in 1992, which almost canceled the program. Later it was discovered that the test was conducted incorrectly - saving the…
Moving Again
I clearly remember every place that I have ever lived, and I can safely say that I have lived move places than anyone that I know (and likely more than…
Joby Going Public on the NYSE
JoeBen, Joby's founder, chartered a Boeing 737 and flew 200 employees to NYC for the event. I watched from home in bed with coffee. He was the inventor of the…
Downsizing in Orwellian Times
“Power is not a means; it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution, one makes the revolution in order to establish the…