The Weblog of Daniel Tashian

(Or how I learned to stop worrying and love the condominium)
Nashville, Tennessee is revealing itself to have an unusually high propensity toward comitting architectural hare kare. Everywhere you turn they are knocking down some of the last remaining 100-plus year old structures to replace them with nice new buildings. The latest in this continuing series [...]

Yipee!! This thing is totally cool! Just got a copy of apple’s ilife. Wow! It includes updates for all the regular “i” applications, but it also includes garageband! What can I say? This piece of software is incredible. I installed it on my laptop, then put it on Leslie’s imac. Within 30 minutes of installing [...]

Spent the better part of the afternoon, once again, house shopping. This time East Nashville was the locale. There were some interesting places, the kind of houses you would say to yourself: “That’s pretty neat, with a coat of paint, and some new light fixtures, maybe a kitchen and bathroom re-mod, it could work.” and [...]

Spent the better part of the afternoon looking at houses with Barbara Moutenot. She is our appointed realtor for the duration. We weren’t actually looking at houses today, mainly apartments. You wouldn’t think Nashville would be the hub of urban lifestyles, but it is! Take for example Werthan Mills. This is a beautiful old textile-mill-turned-loft-apartment [...]