One of the best times I have ever had, was working for the City of San Diego on the Naval Training Center Base Closure redevelopment project. Getting the project was unexpected and unsolicited.

In 1998, people were taking loft tours in downtown San Diego to view buildings that were to be demolished to make room for a new downtown ballpark.

My beloved loft was in one of the buildings, The Candy Factory. When a tour of people came through one day, my loft was a mix of anti ballpark political posters, and my latest personal work, giant posters of the old spanish buildings at the NTC base.

When the tour was over, a lovely woman came up and said she loved my work, and asked if I would like to do business with the city.

Couldn't she see the stacks of eminent domain papers all over the place? I already was doing business with the city!

She handed me her card, which said she was the City Planner for the City of San Diego, Gail Goldberg. She said she would like to take some of the posters with her, so I was just tearing them down off the walls for her to take with her.

Sure enough, the city later hired me to do banners, postcards, protocol gifts and a gift from then Mayor Susan Golding to the Naval History Museum.