The Coffee House

[Gary A.]

Buenos Dias Coffee Hosers. Gary has finished processing the Hawaiian Gardens Founder's Day Parade. His shots were culled down to 252 from about 1500. This parade, because the director, for some reason lost Gary's contact info, hired a pro to shoot the event. He got ahold of Gary at the last minute. Gary cut the pro a deal, you shoot the floats (heavy lifting) and he'll shoot color stuff of the indigenous peoples along the route. The pro was happy with this as he had a tripod already setup and most likely was preparing to prefocus on a spot on the street and set up a tripwire.

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[Gary A.]

@ waday: Typically and presently, most European cities have a height requirement merely for uniformity and appearances. As European cities are much older than U.S. cities, much of their requirements are sorta grandfathered in as modern materials, modern construction methodologies and technology (i.e. elevators) did not exist when the cities were first "regulated".

Understood. But, I’m just curious as to what Frank wants to do specifically.

Frank wants to set the world on fire ... !

 

[waday]

@ waday: Typically and presently, most European cities have a height requirement merely for uniformity and appearances. As European cities are much older than U.S. cities, much of their requirements are sorta grandfathered in as modern materials, modern construction methodologies and technology (i.e. elevators) did not exist when the cities were first "regulated".

Understood. But, I’m just curious as to what Frank wants to do specifically.

Frank wants to set the world on fire ... !

I think there are restrictions on that...

 

[Gary A.]

@ waday: Typically and presently, most European cities have a height requirement merely for uniformity and appearances. As European cities are much older than U.S. cities, much of their requirements are sorta grandfathered in as modern materials, modern construction methodologies and technology (i.e. elevators) did not exist when the cities were first "regulated".

Understood. But, I’m just curious as to what Frank wants to do specifically.

Frank wants to set the world on fire ... !

I think there are restrictions on that...

Hence, his frustrations ...

 

[davidharmier60]

5 hours and a couple minutes today
Our county courthouse is two stories.
It has an elevator I've never seen.
But I'll tell you this. If I had to live above the first storie there would HAVE to be an elevator!

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[davidharmier60]

I just had breakfast at the deli
Got about an hour and a half to kill to get my check. Got the Canon DSLR and a 70-300 in the truck. Might see what sort of pictures I can get. Overcast skies and looking like rain.

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[Frank F.]

Do not know where to start and where to end. My building will cater to all laws and restrictions and be as ecological and sustainable as possible within this framework.

I suspected that was a problem. There as here, it's location. We looked at some condos in an exclusive high rise on the beach at Marco Island, Fl. The starting price for a 400 sq ft unit was $750k. Two bedrooms were over $2 million.

If you sell the units do you have home owners association fees to cover maintenance of common areas.? Here the HOA dues can become excessive.

I cannot think square feet. I build square meters. 550 square meters (5,920.15 square feet), which cost me ~1.6 Million Euros to build and will sell for at least 2.5 Million Euro, if I sell them. Of course most of the house will be owned buy the bank when I start, so it is a good idea to keep most of the house and let the tennents pay the duties with their rent over the years, plan b.

If I get green light for my next project, the difference will be a nice seed capital, even after significant tax duty, plan a.

For me it is a lot of work in project management (to finish the current project and prepare the next at the same time) and a lot of personal financial risk I take.

I do it for the following reasons:

a) I love to build and project manage
b) My architect is wonderful and we share the same goal: sustainable and aestetically pleasing dwellings in which people love to live
c) There is a perspective to build even better when I get bigger projects
d) I know I will not be poor when I grow old

 

[SquarePeg1]

The week is flying by! Busy every day and night this week which makes me a bit crazy and a lot cranky. Tonight have to help at the little kids softball clinic. These are 5-8 year olds and they are all adorably enthusiastic. We try to teach them some skills but mostly we make it a fun experience for them so they'll want to play softball which, in our part of the country, is being crushed by lacrosse and spring soccer. Soccer was always a fall sport here until about 5 or 6 years ago. Now with soccer being played in the spring as well, the practice times and game times compete directly with our softball league and unfortunately, the girls are having to choose at a very early age. Since softball can be a bit boring when you're young with all that standing around picking daisies in the outfield and then sitting on the bench waiting for your at bat - soccer, with it's constant action, is winning.

Haven't had much time to shoot lately. Soon the weather will break and it will be time to get out and explore. Meanwhile, I'm really looking forward to my weekend in DC next week. I hope the weather will be warm and dry!

 

[davidharmier60]

Even at whatever 300 works out to I'm going to have to be much closer to birds to even have a chance to crop. And now the sky has began leaking large amounts of rain.

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[jcdeboever]

Do not know where to start and where to end. My building will cater to all laws and restrictions and be as ecological and sustainable as possible within this framework.

I suspected that was a problem. There as here, it's location. We looked at some condos in an exclusive high rise on the beach at Marco Island, Fl. The starting price for a 400 sq ft unit was $750k. Two bedrooms were over $2 million.

If you sell the units do you have home owners association fees to cover maintenance of common areas.? Here the HOA dues can become excessive.

I cannot think square feet. I build square meters. 550 square meters (5,920.15 square feet), which cost me ~1.6 Million Euros to build and will sell for at least 2.5 Million Euro, if I sell them. Of course most of the house will be owned buy the bank when I start, so it is a good idea to keep most of the house and let the tennents pay the duties with their rent over the years, plan b.

If I get green light for my next project, the difference will be a nice seed capital, even after significant tax duty, plan a.

For me it is a lot of work in project management (to finish the current project and prepare the next at the same time) and a lot of personal financial risk I take.

I do it for the following reasons:

a) I love to build and project manage
b) My architect is wonderful and we share the same goal: sustainable and aestetically pleasing dwellings in which people love to live
c) There is a perspective to build even better when I get bigger projects
d) I know I will not be poor when I grow old

I know a shade tree mechanic looking for a place to live. He likes rebuilding engines in his living room.

 

[Gary A.]

The week is flying by! Busy every day and night this week which makes me a bit crazy and a lot cranky. Tonight have to help at the little kids softball clinic. These are 5-8 year olds and they are all adorably enthusiastic. We try to teach them some skills but mostly we make it a fun experience for them so they'll want to play softball which, in our part of the country, is being crushed by lacrosse and spring soccer. Soccer was always a fall sport here until about 5 or 6 years ago. Now with soccer being played in the spring as well, the practice times and game times compete directly with our softball league and unfortunately, the girls are having to choose at a very early age. Since softball can be a bit boring when you're young with all that standing around picking daisies in the outfield and then sitting on the bench waiting for your at bat - soccer, with it's constant action, is winning.

Haven't had much time to shoot lately. Soon the weather will break and it will be time to get out and explore. Meanwhile, I'm really looking forward to my weekend in DC next week. I hope the weather will be warm and dry!

Out here, soccer and baseball/softball are year round. Not much lacrosse to speak of on the coast.

Gary just dropped off his photos at Hawaiian Gardens City Hall. The City guy said I outshot the "pro". His stuff was pretty boring, perfectly exposed/processed ... but all-in-all, pretty boring.

 

[Gary A.]

Do not know where to start and where to end. My building will cater to all laws and restrictions and be as ecological and sustainable as possible within this framework.

I suspected that was a problem. There as here, it's location. We looked at some condos in an exclusive high rise on the beach at Marco Island, Fl. The starting price for a 400 sq ft unit was $750k. Two bedrooms were over $2 million.

If you sell the units do you have home owners association fees to cover maintenance of common areas.? Here the HOA dues can become excessive.

I cannot think square feet. I build square meters. 550 square meters (5,920.15 square feet), which cost me ~1.6 Million Euros to build and will sell for at least 2.5 Million Euro, if I sell them. Of course most of the house will be owned buy the bank when I start, so it is a good idea to keep most of the house and let the tennents pay the duties with their rent over the years, plan b.

If I get green light for my next project, the difference will be a nice seed capital, even after significant tax duty, plan a.

For me it is a lot of work in project management (to finish the current project and prepare the next at the same time) and a lot of personal financial risk I take.

I do it for the following reasons:

a) I love to build and project manage
b) My architect is wonderful and we share the same goal: sustainable and aestetically pleasing dwellings in which people love to live
c) There is a perspective to build even better when I get bigger projects
d) I know I will not be poor when I grow old

I know a shade tree mechanic looking for a place to live. He likes rebuilding engines in his living room.

Getting an engine and hoist in the living room gotta be a challenge.

 

[RowdyRay]

Getting an engine and hoist in the living room gotta be a challenge.

Meh. Not as hard as you think. I know several people who completely rebuilt their Harleys in their living rooms. During the winter months, and on the road in spring. And....there were stairs involved. Where there's a will.........

 

[vintagesnaps]

The sky is falling! Opening Day got moved back a day. Think they said that hasn't happened since '66.
That'll change my watching the parade on TV & eating popcorn plans!

Wait, now I'm finding out the parade isn't til Monday - what the...?? Apparently MLB moved Opening Day up a week. I wondered, I thought it seemed odd for it to be on a Thursday. Because of the Easter weekend they're waiting til Game 4 to have the Opening Day parade. Okay... well then I guess people can have a really long weekend and spread out the holiday fun & festivities!

 

[RowdyRay]

Hello from Northern Minnesota! Hope everyone had or has a great day!

Welcome. What part of Northern Minnesota are you from? I'm just north of the Twin Cities, but enjoy every part of it.