The lighting in the bathroom can stay incandescent, as long as a motion sensor is installed.  Some of these codes are getting a little wacky if you ask me.  The bathroom will require opening a hole in the hallway for the plumbing inspector, and perhaps another hole down low in a different wall to show that the shower pan exists and is of the right material.  Which isn’t too bad, because I needed to hack into that wall for something else already.

The standard water heater installed in the garage needs about 10 things done to it (bollards to protect it from cars, straps to keep it from falling over, spacers to keep it away from the wall, the list goes on …) so I think I might just replace it with a Tagaki tankless and be done with it.  I keep hearing how tankless is the way to go, anyway.  No running out of hot water!

Other items: many of the unit’s outlets are ungrounded and/or wired incorrectly.  Nothing too major.

I got an estimate from a contractor who’s done lots of condo conversions, so I feel like I’m in good hands.

Or do you have your passengers help clean the desktops to keep costs down, just like how we help you clean up the cabin on descent?

Your in-flight DirectTV made up for it though — 8 episodes of COPS and 1 episode of The Reposessors made the flight back to Oakland go pretty quickly.

Saw this parked in the neighborhood yesterday. It’s not enough to just have a chauffeur for New Year’s Eve — the true safety-minded reveler only rides in this Volvo Limousine: