Archive for the ‘General’ Category.

Madera’s Christmas Carol Club

Abigail decided with a group of her friends to put on a holiday singing performance with her newly formed “CC Club”, Christmas Carol Club!
They thought up the idea on their own, asked the principal when they could do the show, made their own flyers, and gosh darn, it’s happening!

Friendsgiving

Thanksgiving with family terrific, and FRIENDSGIVING was a blast! We had 16 people, mostly neighbors in OUR house! I am thankful!

Diamond Potato

If you can’t afford a six million dollar banana to complete your art collection,  maybe you can still snap up a seventy dollar diamond potato!

(oh, those Cards Against Humanity peeps are the apple (or potato) of my eye!)

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Back to Sonic Fiber!

I’m thrilled to say Sonic internet just scheduled me for an upgrade to their fiber! I’ve had Sonic through AT&T’s fiber at 50 megabit for 5 years and it’s been great. But the upgrade will give me 10 GIGAbit, and it’ll cost LESS per month!

I had gigabit fiber in Berkeley, and yeah, the internet felt that much closer! Also, in my experience, cable internet was “usually” fast but sometimes had high latency, but Sonic fiber (and even the Sonic DSL I had in San Francisco years ago) was always very “snappy”!

I’m on Potrero near Richmond and they scheduled me for December 4th, I guess they finally ran the lines to my house!
I’ve had Sonic for (OMG) 19 years through various homes in the bay area and I’ve never heard a person that didn’t speak very highly them. If you want to sign up, now’s the time. You could use my referral code and get a free month if you like: http://sonic.com/referral/89863eh7h

Morro Dunes and Pinnacles National Park RVing

We are RVing to Morro Dunes RV Park and Pinnacles National Park over Thanksgiving! I’m excited that this will be our first real “mini-vacation” in Gallahop, our RV! We went to Yellowstone on a 2 week maxi-vacation over the summer that was terrific!

5 pounds of Latkes

Abigail and I made 5 pounds of Latkes for Multicultural Night at her elementary school! They were gone in 60 seconds! Yay!

Biscuits and Gravy!

Biscuits and Gravy can be amazing. Ask me how!

Bee Keeper keeping bees!

Abigail is in a 4H Bee Keeping project and loving it! She harvested honey a month ago and (in the photo) they did some hive maintenance 2 weeks ago… checking for mites and moving the frames around for the winter. We ALSO went to a friend of Megan’s house to harvest honey from their bees a few weeks ago! Wee!

Slime The Principal

Abigail’s class won the Slime The Principal prize for raising the most money for the Jog-a-thon! Mr. Ranch came through in spades with his slimee performance! Ms. Milani gets in the last slime!

Ruby Bridges Walk To School Day

On this Ruby Bridges Walk To School Day, my daughter’s school had a march! I’m proud! I wish I had recorded the entire presentation, it was excellent!

The first time I marched for civil rights was in my 20’s. It was Important! I was glad to have found a group that could lead a civil rights project effectively. Activities like this prime kids to be able to lead actions. That is IMPORTANT.