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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 […]

We’ve been recycling grey water since April. Specifically, we have been re-using the run-off from our showers and baths to water the garden and flush our toilets. The result? We used 60 fewer gallons per day this billing period than we used this time last year, and 40 fewer gallons per day this billing period […]

Hello, old friend. My last post apologized for my absence, and funny thing, here I am apologizing, again. My Macbook harddrive crashed at the beginning of last week, and my replacement at work was a laptop running Vista – which is horrendous, and makes the PC/Mac commercials so much more clear. After fighting everyday to […]

Big things have been afoot recently. Was last week the short week? It certainly seemed so. Every second of our lives these past weeks have been scheduled. Wednesday was the first of the September concert series in Memorial Park (aka “Avenue Park”). Friday was a date night thanks to Mi Escuelita (aka Carlos’) who takes […]

The Boston Globe has a great editorial for wordies in defense of English as user-modifiable technology. Part of the joy and pleasure of English is its boundless creativity: I can describe a new machine as bicyclish, I can say that I’m vitamining myself to stave off a cold, I can complain that someone is the […]

Nothing interesting to say, here, just wanted to post a link to The Greywater Guerrillas site as now that our yard is filled with pretty flowers, and looks like adults maintain it, I’m thinking about how we could keep it pretty without harming the environment.

I’ve been reading Adventure in the Rocky Mountains, basically the letters of a plucky woman who traveled the Westerns United States by herself in the mid 1800s. Since I’ve been to both Tahoe and many of the cities in Colorado she mentions, it is interesting to read how the landscape and inhabitants of those regions […]

At risk of turning you off with too much information… If you’ve been following along, we are trying to do our part to conserve water by using our bath-water to maintain the yard. Well, we’ve kept it up, but it has not been fun in our multilevel home. I’ve been trying to think of alternatives […]

Will’s report from Tahoe is that “Grandma said ‘stupid’ and ‘damnit’ when the door slammed on her. She used all the bad words. Those aren’t nice things to say.” No they aren’t. And we expected so much more from Grandma!