Phil | December 31, 2008
And so it is that the Year of the Rat is on its way out. It’s not over quite yet, so I’ll still retain a bit of glory of my birth year, but since it’s almost the solar new year, I thought it as good a time as any to steal an idea from Jana [...]
Phil | December 15, 2008
Curiosity got the better of me today. My little house has a tendency to like extremes. The wood that comprises the majority of walls can trap heat, and then turn around and trap the arctic winds. It’s been doing the latter lately, which means that as the temperature outside dips to the high 30’s and [...]
Phil | November 23, 2008
Today was hands down the best Saturday I’ve had in quite some time. I’m talking the whole day here. It was awesome for several reason, which I’ll rate in order of the lessor awesome (obviously still bitchin’) to most awesome.
3.) The curtains of doom are finally GONE! I started hating those things pretty much as [...]
Phil | November 21, 2008
I’ve done something I never thought possible: I walked into Lowe’s today and bought an item to improve my home that is not electronic. You hear that, interwebs? I walked into a home improvement warehouse. And bought something. My first ever set of blinds, to be specific.
Tomorrow, one set of the eight-foot tall by ten-foot [...]
Phil | November 20, 2008
It’s 11:30pm on this Wednesday evening, and even though this week has left me bone tired, I’m sitting at the computer reading up on bidets. It’s not my fault, entirely. I blame the fine folks at Apartment Therapy for this one. There I was, innocently reading entries and marveling at fabulously decorated houses and rooms, [...]
Phil | November 16, 2008
I’ve spent most of my Saturday cooped up inside my house curled up next to my air purifier. Yesterday, I was aware of more wildfires happening in the Los Angeles area. Then, this morning, news broke of a fire nearby once again, only this time eight miles away from me.
Luckily, my air purifier does a [...]
Phil | November 9, 2008
Future graduate students be forewarned: graduate school eats weekends whole for breakfast and doesn’t even spit out the bones. And if you think for even a minute that you can use your weekend for interesting things like little day trips across the city, trying out new recipes to change things up a bit, or even [...]
Phil | October 27, 2008
I didn’t consciously do this, but I’ve developed a secret code word for annihilating and/or relocating unwanted crickets from my home. It started thanks to the many numbers of crickets who consider my homestead a Beverly Hills mansion in their own little world of real estate. Every time I’d see one of the things, I’d [...]
Phil | October 20, 2008
This is what happens when you suddenly reestablish control over your own life: you sleep well, you get up on time, finish some work in a mere two hours that previously would have consumed at least twice that much time, you take a test and feel that, despite not having studied every single spare moment [...]
Phil | October 16, 2008
On Tuesday, thanks to all the pomp and circumstance (not the good kind, mind you) that comes along with intense wildfires, I decided it might not be a bad idea to go invest in an air purifier. I was a mere four miles or so from the fire, a safe enough distance away that I [...]
