Welcome...
...to my little corner in cyberspace, home to a collection of admittedly old-fashioned websites I've been building since 1996. Please pull up a chair and sit a spell, especially if you like model trains, as there are literally thousands of pages to explore.
- David Builds a Home presents the long, rocky saga of building my own house.
- David’s Modeling Journey details over 50 years of model railroading adventures.
- Grumpy Art is my small contribution to the world of caricatures. Please, no flaming.
- Grumpy Old Fart's Film & TV Reviews honest and to-the-point. New additions.
- The Avengers Forever is about the cult British 60s TV series, not the superheroes.
- Nightscape: A Memoir is my life in a nutshell, just in case anyone was interested.
Today at Grump Central
Wednesday, 21 October 2020
Two years and a bunch of months ago I was enthusiastically carrying on with life, totally oblivious to where things were headed. Ah, how much simpler things were back then, despite the fact that money was impossibly tight and I was relying on the kindness of others to make any real headway. My concerns were trivial by comparison to today. Example: a Temporary Certificate of Occupancy, for which I first applied on 11 February 2019 and still don't have. Thanks to the pandemic, it seems to have dropped off of everyone's radar. Not that it matters anymore—were I to pursue it once again, I'd be dead long before there was any substantive progress. And so it is that I continue living here "illegally."
New Here?
For newcomers wondering why some of my posts are so grim, in February 2020 I was diagnosed with congestive heart failure. Having an ejection fraction of around 12%, I've got about a year to live, give or take. I update this page every day, so if the updates stop—unless it's a hurricane or other non-health event—you can assume the worst.