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The ADN has had articles Thursday and today  on the closure of Johnson Tire.  This is a particularly critical time as people are changing...

My step-father died about thirty years ago.  My mom just last summer. Today I opened a letter addressed to my step father that included tw...

We're back in LA trying to do more work on my mom's house.  Despite all we've given and thrown away, it still looks packed with...

This past week I've been going through my mom's mail and calling different government agencies, insurance companies, utilities, etc....

Last December, I reported on LA gas prices .  We'd just gotten gas fpr $2.39/gal at Costco and I compared that to Anchorage prices (lowe...

You need a damper for your old . . . did he say furnace or water heater?  B&B is an old, old neighborhood hardware store in Culver Cit...

And other things I learned checking out this ad in the Saturday morning's Alaska Dispatch News.  It fell out as I pulled the paper out...

The Love Part Sitemeter has a visit detail page that looks like this: [This is an image so the links don't work]   Google An...

I bought a new beard trimmer the other day at Costco.  This is one of the biggest packaging wastes of space and material I recall.  Eve...

I got an email survey about a Credit Union I have an account in.  Here's the first question: I haven't used any of them in the l...

Viddler, a site similar to Youtube in that you can put videos there and then embed them into your blog post, recently notified me they were ...

Intro The Anchorage International Film Festival is getting all my attention this week, at least here on the blog, and I haven't commen...

Riding on the bus from LAX to my mom's, we meet a man who'd just opened a new shop on the Venice Beach boardwalk.  An Egyptian shop....

Yamato Ya was in this space for years and years and moved out last year across the intersection and so as I walked my bike by the entrance a...

At the dentist yesterday, my hygienist commented that Tom's of Maine - the green toothpaste begun in 1970 - was now owned by Colgate.  S...