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Carlsbad desalination plant about 25% complete
The Water Authority sent out an invite list and required an RSVP earlier in the week - you had to be on the list, present ID to power plant security, and gear up with safety equipment before they'd let anyone near the site.
— January 9, 2014 9:57 p.m.
Carlsbad desalination plant about 25% complete
Though I fail to mention it, there's a "discharge channel" where the waste water from the plant will be diluted with normal sea water, somewhat lessening the potential negative effects of dumping what's effectively doubly-salted water directly into the ocean. The developers claim the channel "ensures that the increased salinity will not impact the marine organisms in the vicinity of the discharge channel," though I've spoken with people who still express concern about creating a marine life "dead zone."
— January 9, 2014 9:55 p.m.
Dog-Friendly Dining: Tower Two Beach Café
There are times Tower Two isn't a bad stop for cheap, decent food. But more often I'm on the other side of the patio at Shades, which is also dog-friendly. It's considerably more expensive, but with a far superior set of tap handles and a much better product coming out of the kitchen...
— December 27, 2013 2:01 p.m.
Merry Movie Christmas from
The Big Screen
Megadittoes to everyone you mentioned, Scotty! Have a blast with your dinner and flick tonight, with the knowledge I'm jealous and awkwardly conducting small talk with the in-law-types you only see once or twice a year...
— December 25, 2013 1:02 p.m.
Sidewalk Sicilian
Good place - the original restau was more City Heights than Mission Hills, as my dad (a Hoover High alum who visited the place frequently in the '60s) tells it. When I was young, Padres night games were frequently preceded by a visit to the location off Waring across from SDSU where they moved when the 15 extension led to the old place getting bulldozed. A few years back they ran into landlord troubles there, and the 2nd generation of Nicolosis decided to shut down - there was such an uproar (I waited in a 2 hour line at lunch for one last torpedo special and pepperoni pizza) that I believe a son-in-law decided to step in and reopen. The shop then moved to the Del Cerro area, and they opened the second shop in El Cajon (in the old Mangia Bene spot, yes) a couple years ago. The prices have gone up recently, and the warm bread with butter and cheese, salami, and peppers used to come out automatically and free rather than on request or at a $4 markup, but even in the face of a lot more innovative competition than a quarter-century ago Nicolosi is still a favorite. As far as El Cajon, it seems the move they made to take Main Street from four lanes down to two for a stretch in the downtown area and expand the sidewalks a few years back is looking like a good idea...
— December 19, 2013 8:16 p.m.
City to pay illegally detained San Diego couple $450K
If I had to venture a guess, I'd say that the plaintiffs cashed in on their case early via one of those TV ads that promises "cash now for your lawsuit victory later!"
— December 14, 2013 4:15 p.m.
All Things BBQ: Phil's
I'd honestly never even heard of Phil's until I got a job managing back-office operations at a bank and learned that I could bribe a solid two months' worth of positive attitudes from staff by catering a lunch from the place. While I always found the sauce passable (though you've nailed the stickiness factor), the dryness of the meats and okay-ness of the sides were always kind of turn-offs...one time I actually went and picked up a $200 lunch for the crew from Sports Arena and then stopped at Abbey's on the way back to get myself a brisket plate with beans and cornbread.
— December 14, 2013 12:22 a.m.
All Things BBQ: the Wrangler Family Barbecue
It's a tenuous connection - no one from my family has worked there in at least 40 years, but growing up out east it remained a once-a-month staple in my house...and we have taken advantage of the "cook your meat in our pit" service they offer.
— December 14, 2013 12:03 a.m.
Gah! Ugh.
Helluva question...I'd like to think somewhere between "seriously dating" and "considering marriage" that the conversation would come up naturally....at least for someone in their mid-twenties or later. So, probably at least a few months deep, hopefully not longer than a year or so. All bets off for kids having kids, though - in my "bad marriage" (age 18-22) we both agreed we didn't want kids, though I later adopted and she later had a child with someone she didn't stay together with, in my "good marriage" we had been together so long and were so engrossed in raising the result of a disappearing sperm donor together that we decided not to re-start the 18-20somethingish-year clock to semi-independence (there's no such thing as ever fully reclaiming your life once you have a child, so one needs to be prepared for that).
— December 11, 2013 11:53 p.m.
Gah! Ugh.
I don't know that I subscribe to any kind of altruism or any other laudatory descriptive for people that raise kids - it's just a decision some people make and others don't, in either case usually for their own selfish reasons. A friend told me years ago that having a child is pretty much the most arrogant act one is capable of committing - if you do it, you must think you're so great that the world just needs to have a copy of you running around multiplying your awesomeness. And I've got to admit that, being a wannabe wordsmith, there is a certain twinge of pride when my 10 year-old (who's been mine since she was 3) throws attendees at a mostly grown-up dinner party for a loop with her vocabulary. Family is who you choose, and who chooses you. I love those who are on life's journey with me, and choose to think fondly about those who were at one point.
— December 11, 2013 11:35 p.m.
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Carlsbad desalination plant about 25% complete
The Water Authority sent out an invite list and required an RSVP earlier in the week - you had to be on the list, present ID to power plant security, and gear up with safety equipment before they'd let anyone near the site.— January 9, 2014 9:57 p.m.
Carlsbad desalination plant about 25% complete
Though I fail to mention it, there's a "discharge channel" where the waste water from the plant will be diluted with normal sea water, somewhat lessening the potential negative effects of dumping what's effectively doubly-salted water directly into the ocean. The developers claim the channel "ensures that the increased salinity will not impact the marine organisms in the vicinity of the discharge channel," though I've spoken with people who still express concern about creating a marine life "dead zone."— January 9, 2014 9:55 p.m.
Dog-Friendly Dining: Tower Two Beach Café
There are times Tower Two isn't a bad stop for cheap, decent food. But more often I'm on the other side of the patio at Shades, which is also dog-friendly. It's considerably more expensive, but with a far superior set of tap handles and a much better product coming out of the kitchen...— December 27, 2013 2:01 p.m.
Merry Movie Christmas from The Big Screen
Megadittoes to everyone you mentioned, Scotty! Have a blast with your dinner and flick tonight, with the knowledge I'm jealous and awkwardly conducting small talk with the in-law-types you only see once or twice a year...— December 25, 2013 1:02 p.m.
Sidewalk Sicilian
Good place - the original restau was more City Heights than Mission Hills, as my dad (a Hoover High alum who visited the place frequently in the '60s) tells it. When I was young, Padres night games were frequently preceded by a visit to the location off Waring across from SDSU where they moved when the 15 extension led to the old place getting bulldozed. A few years back they ran into landlord troubles there, and the 2nd generation of Nicolosis decided to shut down - there was such an uproar (I waited in a 2 hour line at lunch for one last torpedo special and pepperoni pizza) that I believe a son-in-law decided to step in and reopen. The shop then moved to the Del Cerro area, and they opened the second shop in El Cajon (in the old Mangia Bene spot, yes) a couple years ago. The prices have gone up recently, and the warm bread with butter and cheese, salami, and peppers used to come out automatically and free rather than on request or at a $4 markup, but even in the face of a lot more innovative competition than a quarter-century ago Nicolosi is still a favorite. As far as El Cajon, it seems the move they made to take Main Street from four lanes down to two for a stretch in the downtown area and expand the sidewalks a few years back is looking like a good idea...— December 19, 2013 8:16 p.m.
City to pay illegally detained San Diego couple $450K
If I had to venture a guess, I'd say that the plaintiffs cashed in on their case early via one of those TV ads that promises "cash now for your lawsuit victory later!"— December 14, 2013 4:15 p.m.
All Things BBQ: Phil's
I'd honestly never even heard of Phil's until I got a job managing back-office operations at a bank and learned that I could bribe a solid two months' worth of positive attitudes from staff by catering a lunch from the place. While I always found the sauce passable (though you've nailed the stickiness factor), the dryness of the meats and okay-ness of the sides were always kind of turn-offs...one time I actually went and picked up a $200 lunch for the crew from Sports Arena and then stopped at Abbey's on the way back to get myself a brisket plate with beans and cornbread.— December 14, 2013 12:22 a.m.
All Things BBQ: the Wrangler Family Barbecue
It's a tenuous connection - no one from my family has worked there in at least 40 years, but growing up out east it remained a once-a-month staple in my house...and we have taken advantage of the "cook your meat in our pit" service they offer.— December 14, 2013 12:03 a.m.
Gah! Ugh.
Helluva question...I'd like to think somewhere between "seriously dating" and "considering marriage" that the conversation would come up naturally....at least for someone in their mid-twenties or later. So, probably at least a few months deep, hopefully not longer than a year or so. All bets off for kids having kids, though - in my "bad marriage" (age 18-22) we both agreed we didn't want kids, though I later adopted and she later had a child with someone she didn't stay together with, in my "good marriage" we had been together so long and were so engrossed in raising the result of a disappearing sperm donor together that we decided not to re-start the 18-20somethingish-year clock to semi-independence (there's no such thing as ever fully reclaiming your life once you have a child, so one needs to be prepared for that).— December 11, 2013 11:53 p.m.
Gah! Ugh.
I don't know that I subscribe to any kind of altruism or any other laudatory descriptive for people that raise kids - it's just a decision some people make and others don't, in either case usually for their own selfish reasons. A friend told me years ago that having a child is pretty much the most arrogant act one is capable of committing - if you do it, you must think you're so great that the world just needs to have a copy of you running around multiplying your awesomeness. And I've got to admit that, being a wannabe wordsmith, there is a certain twinge of pride when my 10 year-old (who's been mine since she was 3) throws attendees at a mostly grown-up dinner party for a loop with her vocabulary. Family is who you choose, and who chooses you. I love those who are on life's journey with me, and choose to think fondly about those who were at one point.— December 11, 2013 11:35 p.m.