This doesn’t really have anything to do with metalworking except that metalsmiths tend to collect tools.\u00a0 This means we need space.\u00a0 Space in southern California is hard to come by, and nearly impossible in Santa Barbara.\u00a0 I counted once:\u00a0 standing on my back balcony, I could hit no fewer than 12 different apartment buildings with a thrown baseball.\u00a0 That’s just one side of the building.\u00a0 For a midwesterner like me, that crowding becomes an issue from time to time.<\/p>\n
I do love it here.\u00a0 It’s as close as I’ve ever found to paradise, absent the space problems, and the insane housing market.\u00a0 (Even now. Yes, values have tanked, but you’re still looking at half a million dollars for a 900 sqft ‘fixer-upper’, on a postage stamp.)<\/p>\n
This all came home to me the other night when I was watching TV.\u00a0 In a brief pause between the campaign commercials, what should appear but a viagra commercial.\u00a0 There I sat, watching an older couple gazing meaningfully into each other’s eyes, while dancing around their kitchen.\u00a0 Guess what was going through my head:\u00a0 “Wow…look at the size of that kitchen”.\u00a0 Yeah.\u00a0 How do you know you’ve been in Santa Barbara too long:\u00a0 You see a viagra commercial, and pay more attention to the size of the kitchen.\u00a0 Sigh…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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