The first property I ever bought in my life was a small house – – I think it’s called a “patio home” since it’s a freestanding structure, but it’s a part of a bunch of homes on a large plot of land. It was way back in 1989, and I was recently down there in Sunnyvale and drove by it.
We introduced the Slope Tiles page a little earlier this month, and we’ve already given it a bevy of improvements. The latest is one directly from a suggestion that TNRevolution made. It was regarding the comments tile, and Rev said he’d want to be able to enter a search string (which could be a ticker symbol or just regular words) so that, optionally, the comments tile would display only comments that included whatever was typed. Well, voila, we’ve done it! You can optionally enter whatever search string you want via the Edit Tiles dialog box.
I moved to Palo Alto in the summer of 1984. The next year, only a few blocks from the condo I was renting, a new store opened up called Fry’s Electronics. Here’s a photo:
Among my many, many duties in this life, I am the house beekeeper. Something happened to me on Monday which I’d never experienced before. One minute, my hive looked like it always does, with Jesus and his pet bear cheerfully keeping watch over my 9,000 honeybees, as a few of them flitted in and out of the hive.
For years, it’s been very difficult to park in Palo Alto’s “second” downtown, which is the area surrounding California Avenue. The restaurants and other retail simply attracted too many people, so it took a while to find a spot.
Well, Palo Alto set out to build a very modern four story parking garage, and at long last, it’s finished. I parked there yesterday to pick up some take-out. I was the only one in the entire complex. The only one. And why? Simple.
Everything’s closed still. I know it may be different in your area, but it’s basically March 2020 all over again here, right down to the line of people waiting to get groceries, stretched around the block.
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