Total Serious Happy Thread - Page 206

Moonliner · 03-17-2011, 12:51 PM

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Yay - tax refund is good. Now I can pay for better excursions on our Alaska cruise in June.

Captain Larry! You need Captain Larry. His whale watching tour is the best in business matey!

Really. He's as big a character as the whales.

Ghoulish Delight · 03-17-2011, 01:02 PM

A retail developer's poor business acumen is, at least temporarily, my gain.

There's a shopping center up the street that was built a couple years ago, ostensibly as a place for big-box furniture stores to congregate. Without going into too much detail, it's a stupidly awful location. It's been a revolving door of furniture stores in there since it opened, and I've literally never seen more than a dozen cars parked in its expansive lot.

Why is this my gain? Because they're getting desperate so they've gone hipster. Heavy facebook/twitter presence, a new shopping space that's kind of a hipster swap meet, weekend farmer's market, and (so far my favorite part) twice weekly lunch truck gatherings. Yay! Hipster fuel within biking distance from work!

Short Stop BBQ has some damned tasty sauce!

wendybeth · 03-17-2011, 01:09 PM

I just booked our room for our DLR trip in June- we went with the Carousel Inn because of it's proximity to the Park, as well as a really great rate on a Concierge level room. Anyone here ever stayed there?

katiesue · 03-17-2011, 01:28 PM

Thanks for the tip Moonie. We'll check it out. Maddie wants to do the teen only helicopter/glacier hike in Juneau so I need to figure out what I'm doing.

GD - did you have this food truck?

Tom · 03-17-2011, 05:25 PM

Katharine Hepburn skateboarding:

Strangler Lewis · 03-17-2011, 05:28 PM

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Originally Posted by Tom

Katharine Hepburn skateboarding:

My, she was yar.

Kevy Baby · 03-17-2011, 06:33 PM

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Originally Posted by katiesue

Yay - tax refund is good.

Sheesh, we've already got our tax refund and blown it all away!

And on that topic (and the topic of the thread!) my new receiver just came in and I am stopping at my friend's place to pick it up!

alphabassettgrrl · 03-17-2011, 06:37 PM

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Originally Posted by wendybeth

I just booked our room for our DLR trip in June- we went with the Carousel Inn because of it's proximity to the Park, as well as a really great rate on a Concierge level room. Anyone here ever stayed there?

Might have been the Carousel that we stayed in. It was 1996 so I don't remember well anymore. I remember being pleased, and we got a 5-day pass to the park for the price of a .... 3 day maybe. It was a deal, anyway.

It was nice because we could park the car for free, and take their shuttle to the park, and get dropped off pretty close to the door. Loved that. Turns out it's not that far to walk (I think) but we didn't know that at the time.

BarTopDancer · 03-17-2011, 06:54 PM

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Originally Posted by Ghoulish Delight

There's a shopping center up the street that was built a couple years ago, ostensibly as a place for big-box furniture stores to congregate. Without going into too much detail, it's a stupidly awful location. It's been a revolving door of furniture stores in there since it opened, and I've literally never seen more than a dozen cars parked in its expansive lot.

Is that the shopping area that backs up to the 405 housing Linders, Bassett and La Z Boy (near the other shopping area housing Ashley and some other big box furniture stores?)

If so, there is an awesome mom and pop place in there (next to Ashley) called Home Expressions. It's where I got my couch. LOVE THEM!

Oh and food trucks are awesome too.

Ghoulish Delight · 03-17-2011, 07:08 PM

That's the one. The stupidity of that place is that by the time you see the ginormous sign from the freeway, the next exit you can get off it is Euclid which is no where NEAR the actual center with no direct way back. And I hadn't even THOUGHT about the fact that, yes, when you do get off at Euclid, you're dumped right into that other cluster of furniture stores. So the odds of someone seeing that sign, exiting the freeway, and ending up at that center...nil. I work practically in direct eyeline of the place and it took some hunting for me to figure out how to get there.

But I bet the developer got it for dirt cheap.

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Ghoulish Delight I Floop the Pig Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Alternative Swankstyle Posts: 19,348	A retail developer's poor business acumen is, at least temporarily, my gain. There's a shopping center up the street that was built a couple years ago, ostensibly as a place for big-box furniture stores to congregate. Without going into too much detail, it's a stupidly awful location. It's been a revolving door of furniture stores in there since it opened, and I've literally never seen more than a dozen cars parked in its expansive lot. Why is this my gain? Because they're getting desperate so they've gone hipster. Heavy facebook/twitter presence, a new shopping space that's kind of a hipster swap meet, weekend farmer's market, and (so far my favorite part) twice weekly lunch truck gatherings. Yay! Hipster fuel within biking distance from work! Short Stop BBQ has some damned tasty sauce! __________________ 'He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me.' -TJ
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katiesue Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: San Diego Posts: 4,678	Thanks for the tip Moonie. We'll check it out. Maddie wants to do the teen only helicopter/glacier hike in Juneau so I need to figure out what I'm doing. GD - did you have this food truck? __________________ My life is so exciting I can hardly stand it.
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Ghoulish Delight I Floop the Pig Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Alternative Swankstyle Posts: 19,348	That's the one. The stupidity of that place is that by the time you see the ginormous sign from the freeway, the next exit you can get off it is Euclid which is no where NEAR the actual center with no direct way back. And I hadn't even THOUGHT about the fact that, yes, when you do get off at Euclid, you're dumped right into that other cluster of furniture stores. So the odds of someone seeing that sign, exiting the freeway, and ending up at that center...nil. I work practically in direct eyeline of the place and it took some hunting for me to figure out how to get there. But I bet the developer got it for dirt cheap. __________________ 'He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me.' -TJ
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