The new location hunt goes on and on.... The owner of the building finally got back to me after I left messages on his personal phone and called his answering service and stapled a note to my rent check and sent several e-mails. Our current lease does not end until 30 June and he asked if I was interested in renewing - I told him no and that I was looking at spaces with much cheaper per square foot costs and he sounded surprised. He then told me that there was a substantial amount owed on our current lease as I have been paying the incorrect CAMS charges for the past 4 years. (CAMS stands for common area maintenance which includes things like yardwork and building taxes).

I knew there would be something like that coming as we try to get out of the building so I asked him for the itemized breakdown that he was supposed to be providing me each year to justify the CAMS charges. I also went to the property tax records of the building and checked the past four years taxes to see if they had even been paid - they have been except for last year, but there were late payment fees amounting to about $1,400 each year since he took over. I will have to make sure those late fees are not added into the amounts that he gives me.

When he lost control of his company for about 8 months or so and a management under contract from a bank were handling the property I tried to get the totals straightened out with them and they kept telling me that the building owner wouldnt give them the paperwork they needed. Fortunately there are numerous e-mails and lots of contact with the management company for me to fall back on if and when this all blows up. It should be interesting.

The good news? A new Transformer series on The Hub. The bad? Its called Rescue Bots. I guess they can patrol the nations highways and offer their services as hoists and jacks for people with flat tires and stuff. Maybe they will also do the kitten in a tree rescue - actually, we should have a pool to see how long it takes until they actually do rescue a kitten.....
DC announced their new logo which resulted from a lawsuit by DC pants which trademarked a design that to my eye wasnt similar at all but since someone at DC forgot to file the right trademark paperwork they lost their rights in court. The new design they unveiled was a bit bland but then they showed that it would be adapted to each individual book in their line and it suddenly looked a lot more palatable. The Watchmen version even has a splash of blood which is either neat of gruesome. Not sure which

Animal Logic, the animation studio behind Happy Feet 2, will be animating the upcoming movie based on the Bone series.

--Craig