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We returned on Wednesday from a family vacation to Monterey. Lots of jogging, digging in the sand, running from waves, searching through tide pools, visiting the aquarium and sitting in the hot tub. Thank god for hot tubs. Someone seems to have replaced my happy-go-lucky 4 year-old with a teenager. Somehow I thought I had […]
Last Tuesday Indians celebrated the equivalent of their new year – Divali. Just like our Christmas, the country takes off between three days and a week for the celebrations. As we flew in this morning I could see many houses and apartments were still strung with blinking lights in celebration. Tonight, I’m falling asleep to […]
After 24 hours of travel and about 16 hours of sitting around waiting, I’m writing safely from my hotel room in Nehru Place, Delhi. From my coworker’s room, I can see Iskcon, a harikrishna temple, and the Lotus Temple. From my window, I’ve got a lovely view of traffic and ratty apartments. I could tell […]
It can’t help our society that once you have kids, it becomes more and more impossible to fit exercise into your daily regimen – what with the requisite weekend morning activities that every good parent drags their kids to. Since Will has not been enjoying soccer, we skipped out Saturday, took the kids for a […]
What I’m doing in the 7 minutes after I’ve stopped doing something useful, but before the India team comes online for our status call: The eyeballing game. Whack-a-bone
Target was a madhouse on Saturday. Wild monsters running up and down the aisles! The good (for us) news is that I think my anti-superhero campaign has gotten through to Will, and he might not be a super hero for halloween this year. We’re thinking dragon. and Sylvie, dragon slayer.
I’ve actually got a few sewing pictures to post, but I haven’t uploaded the photos, yet, so here are some bunny slippers:
In case you were wondering how to secure a wooden pantry from gangs of wild raccoons: They may still empty your cooler and drink all your beer, but you’ll have food for breakfast.
I’ve been acutely aware of my pinko-ness, recently. But thankfully, when I’m feeling like I’ve become so leftist that I’ve fallen off the common ground, Berkeley throws their “How Berkeley are you” festival, and I feel normal again. Representative of the wackos I’m surrounded by, there were Communists followed by Klingons followed by basket heads […]
Last night was the congratulations happy hour at our local watering hole for the street’s Olympic gold medalist, Jessie Lorenz. Jessie’s goalball team won gold at the Beijing Paralympics a few weeks ago. Doug got to hold the medal. It is about 6 inches across, gold with a jade inset. The Contra Costa Times has […]