Moving

Hello to the the three or four people who check this blog. I finally got around to updating my old website, etling.com, and installing Wordpress. So, "Where's the Van?" posts will now be on etling.com. Yay! Hurray! Go to etling.com. See you there.

oBofA

Sighted

Whitehorse

Picture factory

Something afoot

My milkshake brings all the old men to the Arbys

Captain Bumshoes

Country sink

Caution!!

Larp Loggy, Hunter Gatherer Project Manager

"we wrote down deer, bird, elk, and rabbit, remember guys? we wrote those things down. and i don't see those things here on the table, which makes me think we're failing to meet our goals. so now we need to decide: are we going to work harder to meet these existing goals, or should we consider scaling our objectives back to meet the reality of our productivity?"

Elections are beautiful

Feel like testing out your voting skills before you go check "Obama" or write in "Nader" in a few weeks? Why wait - vote for The Deadly Syndrome's Radiohead remix today:

Googie

Los Angeles and Southern California are dotted by spiky, curvy relics of mid-20th century architecture. The Blue Sky Motor Lodge, 76 Gas in Beverly Hills, Sambo's in Santa Barbara, Astro's Family Coffee Shop in Silver Lake all come to mind. I use to describe it as "Jetson's style," but today I found out it's actually "Googie." http://www.spaceagecity.com/googie/



Their son Elroy...

Cabin getting close

Working

On music.

Roscoe

Struggles of a Pseudo-Progressive Ruralist in an Quasi-Urban Environment

I rode my bicycle halfway to work today, then remembered my car was in a 2-hour parking spot, so I turned around.

Easter 2009

... will be in Chios.




Thanks to Mike G. for showing me this.

Cabin Ceiling

Last weekend was devoted to lifting two-foot sections of old fence over my head and fastening them to the rafters. Floors and plumbing await, then it's bookshelf building time. Abigail took that photo.

Gotham

I went to Chris's in Elysian Park last night to shoot my 30 second part of the video he's making for the "I Hope I Become a Ghost" remix. Leaving, the moon was hanging from the clouds right over downtown, Marview Street was awash in orange, and the the whole city looked like a movie.

belated, last weekend's cabin progress

Leaving LA early.
Dad cutting some tin.

The sleeping loft.

Tin roof Sunday

subtle

Cabin update of the week

The exterior is done! Roof, siding, weather-wrap, windows, door -- it just needs the paper & tin for the roof, and the trim. Then we start on the inside.

These are Saturday pictures. By Sunday we'd finished the rest of the siding, but I got lazy and didn't snap a picture.

Chris's new view

Indian Food

Cabin Weekend 3

We made a great deal of progress this weekend. Habitat for Humanity has opened a store in Goleta (ReStore) that resells used construction materials (mostly windows, doors, and plumbing) and uses those proceeds to build more Habitat for Humanity houses. We got great deals on five windows and a heavy duty glass-pane door. By Sunday night we'd framed in everything, put up siding on one and a half walls, run electrical, and started on the rafters.

The Cabin, Weekend 2

The cabin is really coming along. Dad did some unauthorized improvements while I was away during the week; all for the better, it will now be a fancy proper housish-cabin with a toilet and sink. Saturday we got the subfloor finished and the east wall framed up. The east wall will be windowless, since it looks directly onto the hillside.

On Sunday we framed the remaining three walls, setting studs at 16". Window and door framings will be decided on once we find the windows and doors. We figured out a template for the rafters, and those are waiting to be cut next Saturday. The roof has a decent peak, over 4 feet above the sidewalls, so it should be enough room for a little loft at the north end.

Does anyone want to give me a bunch of double-hung windows and sliding French doors? Eh?