Ever since I was ten or eleven years old, I've suffered mouth ulcers, aka canker sores. I've seen these referred to as "pesky" sores — obviously that description was written by someone who never had one. They aren't pesky. They are acutely, aspirin-swallowing, can't-eat, multi-day painful. I don't get them so much any more. in… Continue reading

The weather has been quite lovely this week. After dinner on Saturday, we investigated the newly reopened parking area at the western edge of Daly City. It's called Thornton Beach Vista; apparently the original road went down to the beach and was undermined in a bad storm in 1982. Thornton Beach itself is a state… Continue reading

The weather was grey and drippy early in the week but finished up clear and warm. Quite nice actually. We did Dim Sum on Sunday. We had 7 people. I had asked for a table for 6 (there were 5 when we arrived; two showed up later) so we could squeeze 7. A good time… Continue reading

Still rainy on Monday but clear for the rest of the week. This was good because some people down the street decided to have their roof replaced (old roof removed Tuesday, plywood applied Wednesday, new shingles installed Thursday). I had my performance review at the Job on Wednesday. It was… quite good actually. I got… Continue reading

This has been a wet week. Lots of drizzly days and even some windy lashing rain from the south! We're having a wet spring. Rich picked up a couple of copies of the Mac OS X 10.3.4 (Tiger) family pack. We've been upgrading machines around the house. There are some interesting things in Tiger. Spotlight… Continue reading

It's been a quiet week. The weather was largely clear, even warm for a couple of days. Except, that is, for Thursday when it poured rain from midnight till about 10 am, then drizzled for much of the remainder of the day. We took a run up to PetClub (for cat litter) on Thursday afternoon.… Continue reading

The weather was fairly stable this week 🙂 Rich has been doing a bunch of weed whacking and general outdoor hacking and hewing. He trimmed the escalonia hedge between our house and the next door neighbor. Then he took out a lot of Scotch Broom and removed a bunch of dead branches from the piney… Continue reading

The weather has been generally nice, if windy. 🙂 There was one very foggy day but the wind blew that all away. Ricch made a batch of turkey cabbage soup on Tuesday and we've been working through that, often with a salad. Rich had his annual physical this week. Triglycerides are continuing on a positive… Continue reading

The weather has mostly been lovely – cool and clear – with, of course, some rain on occasion. It rained overnight on Wednesday but Thursday was mostly clear. Friday was pretty wet on and off. The weekend was quite nice. I had to go back to the Job Site on Monday because I forgot something.… Continue reading

The weather has been lovely and warm… except for the days when it's been pouring rain. Obviously it's still spring. We even had a thunderstorm on Sunday night! Wednesday was the birthday of Vincent Van Gogh. Google celebrated. Continue reading