ooo wow. We are also doing an extensive reno of a portion. Our subfloor might be ok, but we have to replace all posts and piers and pour some new perimeter foundation. And we also have to fix the terrible compost smell. The internet seems to think you do this by either improving ventilation or removing ventialtion entirely and adding moisture barrier. These two things are opposites so I'm worried it's all bad.
― kniphofia face (Sufjan Grafton), Tuesday, 29 December 2020 04:32 (three years ago) link
Remember the good old days when it was just about retaining walls? :)
We knew the reno situation could snowball once we started pulling things out. Once it was clear that the subfloors should be replaced, then it meant drywall had to come down, and once that was the walls were opened up, why not go ahead and vault the ceiling? And we knew we needed to replace the knob and tube electrical for safety--easier now that it is all exposed.
I have not yet started to wrap my head around stuff I'd like to do outside. Does CA even have a lottery? Need to get some more cash flow going. I guess there is always the Chumash casino.
― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Tuesday, 29 December 2020 04:52 (three years ago) link
But back to adventures on Milpas: we decided that we are in the hood, we will eat at each and every restaurant from top of the street to ocean.
Unfortunately, this includes a Jack In the Box and a Carl's Jr.
Plenty of good stuff to offset those, thankfully.
― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Tuesday, 29 December 2020 04:54 (three years ago) link
KFC and Winchell's!
― kniphofia face (Sufjan Grafton), Tuesday, 29 December 2020 05:05 (three years ago) link
There's 4 or so places I've not had yet. Always wondered about Cesar's.
― kniphofia face (Sufjan Grafton), Tuesday, 29 December 2020 05:07 (three years ago) link
Always wondered about seeing a Jewel concert between poker hands at the chumash as well.
― kniphofia face (Sufjan Grafton), Tuesday, 29 December 2020 05:57 (three years ago) link
We have done Winchell's and ruled it not as good as Eller's. Haven't tried Cesar's yet. Actually doing KFC tonight--it has been years and I do so grudgingly, but spouse is unreasonably excited.
There is also a Little Caesars to tackle. Haven't had that since the 80s I reckon.
Bossie's was great!
― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Tuesday, 29 December 2020 17:08 (three years ago) link
I seem to eat/drink coffee on East Haley a lot.
― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Tuesday, 29 December 2020 17:09 (three years ago) link
In fact I think I will walk over there now that the terrible, terrible weather has passed.
― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Tuesday, 29 December 2020 17:12 (three years ago) link
Oh and I have not done the hot dog place yet but am excited to make a custom corn dog out of hot italian sausage instead of dog.
― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Tuesday, 29 December 2020 17:13 (three years ago) link
Eller's is indeed better. Glad somebody is up for KFC. Maybe there's some joy in choosing sides? I enjoy Bossie's and hope they do well. That spot, an old dairy building that had a cow statue on the roof, has flipped a number of times. Bossie's seems to have possibly stuck? The Haley Corridor was starting to happen before the pandemic. Hopefully it will pick up where it left off afterward.
― kniphofia face (Sufjan Grafton), Tuesday, 29 December 2020 17:47 (three years ago) link
Spudnuts my dudes
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Tuesday, 29 December 2020 21:18 (three years ago) link
I prefer to eat my doughnuts with a side of mashed potatoes
― kniphofia face (Sufjan Grafton), Tuesday, 29 December 2020 22:56 (three years ago) link
Fatal shooting in front of our place last night was. . . unexpected
― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Monday, 4 January 2021 19:04 (three years ago) link
I'd imagine so! I wondered if it was nearby your current spot and hoped it wasn't. Santa Barbara is not immune to the occasional act of violence, typically "gang related" as this is described. We had some occur very near to the place we rented on Anapamu years ago. Most of it seems to happen closer to downtown, so it's a trade-off between living closer to the city and being nearer to incidents of crime. But things have happened even near Santa Barbara Middle School, which seems to be one of the swankier areas in the hills on APS.
― kniphofia face (Sufjan Grafton), Monday, 4 January 2021 19:28 (three years ago) link
100% of the two deaths i've been present at are described earlier on this thread
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, 4 January 2021 19:30 (three years ago) link
https://www.macrotrends.net/cities/us/ca/santa-barbara/crime-rate-statistics#:~:text=Violent%20crimes%20are%20defined%20in,a%205.03%25%20decline%20from%202016.
violent crime rate seems to trend near that for the US or at least california. murder/homicide is generally lower by a factor of 4. let's not give the Trumpers more ammo based on anecdotes.
― kniphofia face (Sufjan Grafton), Monday, 4 January 2021 19:45 (three years ago) link
i don't actually think SB is dangerous haha (although my post is true!)
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, 4 January 2021 19:52 (three years ago) link
I think this means that you are dangerous!
― kniphofia face (Sufjan Grafton), Monday, 4 January 2021 20:03 (three years ago) link
in combination with santa barbara anyway
― kniphofia face (Sufjan Grafton), Monday, 4 January 2021 20:04 (three years ago) link
You could fall off a cliff and into the sea, or eaten by a mountain lion, or almost get swallowed by a whale. Things of that nature
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Monday, 4 January 2021 20:42 (three years ago) link
celebrating laker fan might hit you with their car
― kniphofia face (Sufjan Grafton), Monday, 4 January 2021 20:47 (three years ago) link
One of the victims was literally in front of our door :(. Apparently there were three separate spots where shots were fired along Liberty (which is only a block long). We were at the barn; came back at ~6:30pm to a lot of police tape. Detectives stopped by a couple of times but we obviously did not have anything to offer.
Very sad, I like this neighborhood a lot and don't feel it is dangerous at all!
― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Monday, 4 January 2021 20:53 (three years ago) link
So this is the fire-y flip side of the paradise coin.
Pony evac'd to Earl Warren yesterday.
― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Wednesday, 13 October 2021 16:42 (two years ago) link
Fires aside, this place is awesome and we are so happy to live here. It's been a year this month! We still don't live in the house we bought on video lol.
― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Wednesday, 13 October 2021 16:43 (two years ago) link
Glad you've made it home -- the area, if not the house!
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 13 October 2021 17:36 (two years ago) link
excited for the reservoirs, of course
― accordion folder full of Zoobooks (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 23 December 2021 22:59 (two years ago) link
less excited for the 8 mph average speed around town
― accordion folder full of Zoobooks (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 23 December 2021 23:01 (two years ago) link
Creeks v full
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Friday, 24 December 2021 00:38 (two years ago) link
Ah I remember the tense December by Mission creek 2 years ago. Now I just have mid-foundation-construction worries.
― accordion folder full of Zoobooks (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 24 December 2021 01:39 (two years ago) link
Just noticed a gutter was broken and aiming water directly at exposed wood in the sub area.
― accordion folder full of Zoobooks (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 24 December 2021 05:34 (two years ago) link
I’m not in SB at the moment, but pretty sure my pony is knee deep in mud. Hopefully not the case at the house. The street was prone to major float-your-car-away flooding, but the city did a bunch of storm drain work on it over the summer, so hopefully all is well.
― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Saturday, 25 December 2021 18:23 (two years ago) link
https://maps.app.goo.gl/Ubvaxowp8UpF6RUN6
just a horse in a yard very near to downtown
― Bixby in a Samsung I know it's Siri-esque (Sufjan Grafton), Tuesday, 15 February 2022 04:54 (two years ago) link
wow this place is kind of magical?
― Stevie D(eux), Tuesday, 5 April 2022 15:46 (two years ago) link
It can be!
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 5 April 2022 16:39 (two years ago) link
Jean Baudrillard waxed eloquently about it in his book America.
― henry s, Tuesday, 5 April 2022 17:32 (two years ago) link
I am here now, in my glass coffin surrounded by VCRs, obsessed with death.
― Michael Flatley's (Sufjan Grafton), Tuesday, 5 April 2022 18:00 (two years ago) link
I eat a burrito, a spooky mummy for beans, as a hummingbird probes for kniphofia's nectar like a pirate skeleton with a cutlass.
― Michael Flatley's (Sufjan Grafton), Tuesday, 5 April 2022 18:07 (two years ago) link
this place truly is hell
― Michael Flatley's (Sufjan Grafton), Tuesday, 5 April 2022 18:10 (two years ago) link
I mean it is warm today. The nerve of SB to go over 75 F!
― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Tuesday, 5 April 2022 19:00 (two years ago) link
Stevie D is srsly rocking the tank top and shorts and his presence increases the already high SB QOL by a notable margin.
― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Tuesday, 5 April 2022 19:02 (two years ago) link
In Baudrillard’s Santa Barbara “you always hear the same question: ‘What are you doing after the orgy?’ ”
OK Stevie and I have actually been discussing this, sort of, re: convos with SB coffee house baristas
― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Tuesday, 5 April 2022 19:08 (two years ago) link
people here are so distracted by "what will we do after the orgy?" and you have to wonder where that interest was at during the orgy itself.
― Michael Flatley's (Sufjan Grafton), Tuesday, 5 April 2022 19:46 (two years ago) link
https://dankbowlkitchen.com/
I will never eat here, and I will never understand how it remains open.
― Michael Flatley's (Sufjan Grafton), Tuesday, 26 April 2022 18:36 (one year ago) link
but i must admit, these are the dankest bowls i've ever seen
― Michael Flatley's (Sufjan Grafton), Tuesday, 26 April 2022 18:43 (one year ago) link
Looks like something I'd try. The name doesn't put me off, if that's your objection.
― nickn, Tuesday, 26 April 2022 18:49 (one year ago) link
the food is bespoke hot pockets. the aesthetic is weed puns.
― Michael Flatley's (Sufjan Grafton), Tuesday, 26 April 2022 18:52 (one year ago) link
I suppose Rebelution, the restaurant, would thrive here
― Michael Flatley's (Sufjan Grafton), Tuesday, 26 April 2022 18:59 (one year ago) link
i've always wanted to build my own daddy
― kurt schwitterz, Tuesday, 26 April 2022 19:07 (one year ago) link
i am a free daddy absolutist
― Michael Flatley's (Sufjan Grafton), Tuesday, 26 April 2022 19:13 (one year ago) link