By Paul Losch
About this blog: I was a "corporate brat" growing up and lived in different parts of the country, ending in Houston, Texas for high school. After attending college at UC Davis, and getting an MBA at Harvard, I embarked on a marketing career, mai...
(More)About this blog: I was a "corporate brat" growing up and lived in different parts of the country, ending in Houston, Texas for high school. After attending college at UC Davis, and getting an MBA at Harvard, I embarked on a marketing career, mainly in the Bay Area with different companies. My former wife went back to medical school after we had been married a few years, and we moved into married student housing at Stanford, had our two now adult children while she was a medical student, and moved into Palo Alto when she started her Residency. Been here ever since. As my kids were going through the Palo Alto schools, I was actively involved in their activities, most notably head umpire for Palo Alto Little League and 9 years as a member of the Parks and Recreation Commission, among other activities. My kids both are grown, my son teaches 5th grade locally, and my daughter, fluent in Mandarin, is working in China. I sold the business I owned and ran for 8 years in 2012, worked on the Obama campaign, and am consulting for non-profit organizations, which gives me a nice, flexible schedule. Lots of stamps in my passport, and for fun, I like live performances &emdash; theater and music - and of course the Giants!
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Upgrading the storm drains is essential, and to our community's credit, we passed a measure a few years back to make it happen. Aged infrastructure, leading to flooded streets, etc. will be mitigated as a consequence of this effort.
I live in an area of town where major work is taking place right now. Since I have an office in my house, I am home some days working. What a nightmare.
I tolerate all the goings on because I believe the project needs to be done. Dealing with the noise, the parking challenges, and worst of all the metal plates that cover the trenches at the end of the day of work (every time a car drives over them, it sounds like doors slamming) is just awful.
There is so much equipment, cones, and other necessities. It is a bad time of year for this to be going on, since the days are short and the weather is rainy. It makes the project even more difficult. I am afraid to drive on my street, day or night.
Neighbors are parking their cars away from the activity, which has aggravated some nearby neighbors who are finding places on the street where they normally park occupied by cars that typically are not there.
We just have to deal with this and get through it. While it gos on, it is a huge pain the the butt.
On a positve note, I had excess Tootsie Pops from Halloween,and I gave a bag of them to the crew supervisor. Happy workers that day!
