Happy Birthday!
Happy Birthday to me! Today is my 39th birthday.
A handful of friends joined me for brunch at the Ashmont Grill in the Ashmont neighborhood of Dorchester. Amazingly, the 7 of us were able to be seated immediately. The food was great, service was pretty good, and the coffee was surprisingly tasty.
After brunch, we went across the street to check out the open houses at the Carruth, a fabulous new condo development going up right at the Ashmont T station. Well, it’s a pretty cool development. I qualify that because many of the units are oddly shaped, have inconveniently placed ventilation columns, and/or the fuse box hasn’t been hidden in a closet but is located in plain site. I liked most of the units I saw despite the weird layouts, but hated the cheap plastic material used for the surface of the bathroom sink vanities. For a higher end development, one would have expected them to try a little harder on some of these small details.
Oh well. I’d love to buy a property, but this still seems like a bad time and property values, especially in Boston, still seem too high.
And for the rest of the afternoon, I’m hanging at Bruce’s place. Relaxing, doing some web surfing, and catching up on some reading. Oh, and looking forward to some Ben and Jerry’s after dinner… Yum!
