The week of Monday Oct 10 – Sunday Oct 16 Continue reading

The weather has been mostly nice: fair, clear, and neither too warm nor too cold. Rich called an impromptu ad hoc pizza meeting of the Bay Area Ruby group ("if no one shows, at least we can eat pizza"). One person RSVP'd (not required); eight showed up. Not bad! We eat at Red Lobster once… Continue reading

Not much news last week… but here’s what there was. Continue reading

Lots of things this week… Continue reading

This week in history… Continue reading

Sunday was September 11. Take a moment to reflect. Continue reading

The weather was, for the most part, quite nice last week. It was even warm for one or two days…. Continue reading

Today is the first day of school in our local school district. From now through May, children will walk past our house on their way to school in the mornings. There will be more traffic in the mornings and afternoons near the schools. Kids will be out at recess. "Caution – Children Present" signs will… Continue reading

My weekly wrapup for Aug 22 – Aug 28… Continue reading

The weather has varied from fog to clear and back but never too hot. August is very pleasant here. We got the newest Jasper Fforde book (The Big Over Easy) this week. Unfortunately, the book was incomplete. A signature is missing; it goes from p. 52 to p. 83. Oh dear. I contacted the store.… Continue reading