Who's Linda????

Linda is not a Jewish candlestick holder called the menorah or a large slimey anaconda.....I wish.

Instead it's a big, hulking, palsy-shaking, chain smoking......Jewish grandmother. Yes the stereotypes are right on. "You never write, you never call, how come you're so skinny? How come you're so fat?" And on and on......with a cackle that's right out of Fiddler on the Roof, the dream sequence for those of you in the know with that musical.

You're not supposed to smoke in the building or most of San Francisco for that matter. She's a chain smoker and that big hunk of mama is no way taking her frame out of that flattened cushion chair and heaving it to the elevator to go all the way down 11 floors.....so she opens the window. Yes...I'm shocked I have the capability to open the window. I though they made that illegal so people wouldn't jump. Maybe they only allow happy dispositioned leasees in the building but anyway....So she opens the window and the wisps of Malboro make their way into my office. Thus, my office smells like I smoke too. Geez.

Linda, Jewish grandmother, gets here at 930 walks to her office and I never see her come out. Not even to pee. I hear her cackling and occasionally I hear pounding (I have no idea what she's doing with that one)and nothing else.

I wonder what she really does behind that closed door? Stay tuned....

Moving, no? Yes? No? Yes?

So today we were supposed to move. But then this morning we got word that the Shorestein's were holding up the deal....cuz. The first Jewish group was okay with our contract and now the second Jewish group was not okay with the contract. Because they know we are under the gun to move, they are demanding unreasonable stuff. Stuff like paying for the group's move, paying for new furniture and a whole new wardrobe. Well ok not the wardrobe stuff but the other stuff. Can you believe it? Bad landlord bad.

Then the Shorestein's added more madness to the mayhem and said they just may not finalize the contract until Thursday. So tonite's move was off. Then I made some calls and at the last minute it's on. Now a mad rush to get the movers (after we cancelled earlier today) to show up in 2 hours. Lord knows who were gonna get. Probably the homeless people I walk over every morning. I have no doubt. Well we'll see our Linda tomorrow in our new place......maybe.

What the heck?

The Jewish Grandmother and the Nuclear Engineers is a blog that will tell the daily travails and trials of having the "remains" of the landlord's "thing" in our "new" office for the summer.

Has anyone heard of such a thing???? What is going on? Here's what's up.

The company I work for is moving into the Russ Building. Here's a little history about the building...

The Russ Building is a Neo-Gothic office tower located in the Financial District of San Francisco, California. The 436 ft building was completed in 1927 and had 32 floors as well as the city's first indoor parking garage. Upon completion, the building was iconic enough that that Architect and Engineer wrote, “In early every large city there is one building that because of its size, beauty of architectural design and character of its use and occupancy, has come to typify the city itself ... Today the Russ Building takes this place in San Francisco. by its size and location and by the character of its tenants the building becomes indeed—'The Center of Western Progress'.” The tower is a California Historical Landmark. Until the emergence of Sand Hill Road in the 1980s, many of the largest venture capital firms held offices in the Russ Building.

So it's nice. We're renting the office on the 11th floor from this sub-landlord that is this Jewish group....something about enhancing the Jewish experience in Israel or something like that. Only in big cities do you get something that becomes an organization that specific. Speaking of specific in big cities....I live a couple houses away from a person that her job is to put pictures on the walls of offices. What gives? Who can't do that? Apparently not everybody.... I think it's a piece of cake. Hey, maybe I'll start doing that myself....but I digress.

The office inside is old looking, no air conditioning but in a great location. Lots of amenities right there and better than what we have now. As we (lawyers we) are signing the lease, or sub-lease, the sub-landlords say "Oh one additional thing is Linda has to stay for the summer. We just can't move her. It's impossible." So I'm thinking she's some piece of furniture that is so endearing to them that they named it a person's name or some pet that is so big they have to find a zoo to give it to so....what is Linda?
Stay tuned......