This happened yesterday right in front of our apartment building. Funny thing is the guy wasn't going that fast. His front tire drove up a back tire of a parked car and it just rolled over!
July 2009 Archives
Ok, so it's not my design work but at least I got my name published as "Illustrations by". All thanks to my friend Charles.
One of my favorite things about Los Angeles is the ability to buy pretty much anything. When we first moved here and I broke my foot and didn't have health insurance we found a medical supply store five blocks away that sold me a walking cast. When I had to buy a digital caliper for creating drawings of an existing piece of furniture I went downtown to the scientific instrument supply store and purchased one for $8.00.
This city is full of so much cool stuff it's unbelieveable! Which brings me to the point of this whole post: Francis Ford Coppola's personal wine. Yeah, it's in most local liquor stores (Trader Joes for $16) and yeah, I didn't even discover it on my own (see the Adam Carolla podcast here) but this bottle of wine would be nearly impossible to find back home in CO and for fucks sake people it's made by Francis Ford Coppola!!
Freaking amazing. Can't wait to pop it open and watch the Godfather.
AT&T service SUCKS in LA. If you move here don't keep it. I work literally across the street from an AT&T building and I can SEE the cell phone antennas on the building and my phone still drops calls. I just don't understand it.
The only positive is that it seems I can make and take calls from Sierra Towers on Sunset when nobody else can. I guess that would be awesome if I could afford a 2 million dollar condo there but I can't. Forget AT&T. Go with someone else.
Hello there. I feel guilty for not posting in a long time. Please forgive me. I've been busy at work and it seems one good job begets another so I've been busy with side work as well.
Anyway, Nicole and I recently flew out of LAX to return home to Denver for a wedding. I looked up LAX parking online and found a number of places where you can park for $5 a day. I wrote a couple down and we headed off to the airport. Upon arriving at LAX Parking Center we were notified you had to reserve a spot online to get the $5 a day and that it was going to be $8 for rooftop or $9 for the garage. In a hurry I elected to pay the $9 a day. At this point I figured it was still cheaper than a cab ride to the airport (which is about $45 from West Hollywood). We parked the car without much trouble and hopped onto one of their free shuttles to take us to the terminal.
The trouble happened when we returned home from our trip. Our ticket instructed us to call the number on the back and tell them they needed to send the shuttle to come pick us up. We called and the guy at the other end just send "Hello" making Nicole think we called the wrong number. He said she did not so she said we needed a shuttle to pick us up at our terminal which to this he hung up the phone. Uh, ok. I guess we'll go wait by the red sign.
Flash forward to 45 minutes later, having watched every other parking garage shuttle drive by, we called them again. He said the shuttle is on its way. Ok, so we waited another 15 minutes for it to arrive but when it arrived it was full and the driver just kept driving. Flash forward another 30 minutes and the second shuttle finally arrives. This company must only have two shuttles to service their garage which must hold 3,000 cars. On our trip to the parking garage we passed six other frantically waving people trying to flag down the driver so they could be taken back to their cars. No such luck, our shuttle was full. By maintaining only two shuttles and three employees LAX Parking Center must be able to offer cheaper parking rates.
When arriving back at the parking garage we were overcharged by $4 but at that point I didn't have the energy to argue with the Persian kid working the register. I paid our $49 due and got the hell out of there.
On our next trip I think I'll be going with one of the more reputable parking centers at LAX (by that I mean one of the companies that had shuttles going by every few minutes, not half hours). It may cost a little more per day but it'll be worth the sanity when we return home.
