Day Thirteen: Thursday, June 18, 2009
Getting Ready for Two Trips
Woke up at five and got busy. Went down to school and mailed a couple more books. Figured out how to get money from the insurance policy to pay for Robert's car. Spent most of the day gathering stuff for New York and Japan. It's going to happen fast and furious now.
Thursday, June 18, 2009
Wednesday, June 17, 2009
Day Twelve: Wednesday, June 17, 2009 Conference Call. Getting Ready
Day Twelve: Wednesday, June 17, 2009
Workshop planning. CSPA Conference Call. Lunch with Wayne
Went down to school and puttered around a bit. Called Howard and got the final yearbook invoice all straightened out. amazing what can happen when you talk to the right people.
At noon we had the CSPA conference call with Rebecca. The workshop is now BELOW 50 participants. Yikes.
At 1:30 I met Wayne at the Pita Pit for lunch and that was a blessed time of fellowship. We hung out until well after three.
I took a short nap and then Christine and I went out running errands. Dollar Tree. Sams. Costco. Aaron Brothers. Sees. I was gathering stuff for New York and Japan. Oh I also had found out the Les Paul won't be playing on Monday night. He has been sick or something and even worse Noah Rivera broke his leg and won't be in Shrek. We think we are going to cancell our full priced tickets.
For dinner we went to Takas and had a great meal off the Happy Hour special.
We wanted to be out of the house as Zoe was having her first Bible study.
Workshop planning. CSPA Conference Call. Lunch with Wayne
Went down to school and puttered around a bit. Called Howard and got the final yearbook invoice all straightened out. amazing what can happen when you talk to the right people.
At noon we had the CSPA conference call with Rebecca. The workshop is now BELOW 50 participants. Yikes.
At 1:30 I met Wayne at the Pita Pit for lunch and that was a blessed time of fellowship. We hung out until well after three.
I took a short nap and then Christine and I went out running errands. Dollar Tree. Sams. Costco. Aaron Brothers. Sees. I was gathering stuff for New York and Japan. Oh I also had found out the Les Paul won't be playing on Monday night. He has been sick or something and even worse Noah Rivera broke his leg and won't be in Shrek. We think we are going to cancell our full priced tickets.
For dinner we went to Takas and had a great meal off the Happy Hour special.
We wanted to be out of the house as Zoe was having her first Bible study.
Tuesday, June 16, 2009
Day Eleven: Tuesday, June 16, 2009: Panel Discussion
Day Eleven: Tuesday, June 16, 2009
Workshop planning. Walsworth Conference Call on the Future of Yearbooks.
Got up early to start working on CSPA. Went down to school to prepare another set of yearbooks to mail. Had a nice conversation with Vera and we toured a bit of the new construction. Up at the old tree on Mormon Hill we spoke with an arborist who was looking at the root system.
At noon I joined the Walsworth conference call for our panel discussion on the future of yearbooks. It was interesting. Most felt that the printed yearbook was not going away but that we must continue to keep it relevant for students.
After that I just chilled at home. Not much on TV. Ice Road Truckers was about it. A nice bottle of wine with your wife, leftover risotto and Ice Road Truckers isn't a bad way to spend a Tuesday evening in the summer.
The other big new is that Robert has found an apartment that he and Raph can afford. The July 1 deadlind is in place. Yippee.
Workshop planning. Walsworth Conference Call on the Future of Yearbooks.
Got up early to start working on CSPA. Went down to school to prepare another set of yearbooks to mail. Had a nice conversation with Vera and we toured a bit of the new construction. Up at the old tree on Mormon Hill we spoke with an arborist who was looking at the root system.
At noon I joined the Walsworth conference call for our panel discussion on the future of yearbooks. It was interesting. Most felt that the printed yearbook was not going away but that we must continue to keep it relevant for students.
After that I just chilled at home. Not much on TV. Ice Road Truckers was about it. A nice bottle of wine with your wife, leftover risotto and Ice Road Truckers isn't a bad way to spend a Tuesday evening in the summer.
The other big new is that Robert has found an apartment that he and Raph can afford. The July 1 deadlind is in place. Yippee.
Monday, June 15, 2009
Day Ten: Monday, June 15, 2009: Workshop planning. Up.
Day Ten: Monday, June 15, 2009
Workshop planning. Up.
I went into school to take the computer back and work through my emails. I also had a nice call with Crystal about New York. Maddie came in and took photos of the construction and I went up and talked with Vera about all the school and district news. Seems that much craziness is afoot.
Gary had called and said they were going to the 1:45 Up 3D at the Iron Point Century and we decided to join them. It was great; we totally loved it.
In its opening stretch the new Pixar movie “Up” flies high, borne aloft by a sense of creative flight and a flawlessly realized love story. Its on-screen and unlikely escape artist is Carl Fredricksen, a widower and former balloon salesman with a square head and a round nose that looks ready for honking. Voiced with appreciable impatience by Ed Asner, Carl isn’t your typical American animated hero. He’s 78, for starters, and the years have taken their toll on his lugubrious body and spirit, both of which seem solidly tethered to the ground. Even the two corners of his mouth point straight down. It’s as if he were sagging into the earth. Eventually a bouquet of balloons sends Carl and his house soaring into the sky, where they go up, up and away and off to an adventure in South America with a portly child, some talking (and snarling and gourmet-cooking) dogs and an unexpected villain. Though the initial images of flight are wonderfully rendered — the house shudders and creaks and splinters and groans as it’s ripped from its foundation by the balloons — the movie remains bound by convention, despite even its modest 3-D depth. This has become the Pixar way. Passages of glorious imagination are invariably matched by stock characters and banal story choices, as each new movie becomes another manifestation of the movie-industry divide between art and the bottom line. — Manohla Dargis , The New York Times
After the movie we went to Bloom, the hot coffee place owned by some Christians
Workshop planning. Up.
I went into school to take the computer back and work through my emails. I also had a nice call with Crystal about New York. Maddie came in and took photos of the construction and I went up and talked with Vera about all the school and district news. Seems that much craziness is afoot.
Gary had called and said they were going to the 1:45 Up 3D at the Iron Point Century and we decided to join them. It was great; we totally loved it.
In its opening stretch the new Pixar movie “Up” flies high, borne aloft by a sense of creative flight and a flawlessly realized love story. Its on-screen and unlikely escape artist is Carl Fredricksen, a widower and former balloon salesman with a square head and a round nose that looks ready for honking. Voiced with appreciable impatience by Ed Asner, Carl isn’t your typical American animated hero. He’s 78, for starters, and the years have taken their toll on his lugubrious body and spirit, both of which seem solidly tethered to the ground. Even the two corners of his mouth point straight down. It’s as if he were sagging into the earth. Eventually a bouquet of balloons sends Carl and his house soaring into the sky, where they go up, up and away and off to an adventure in South America with a portly child, some talking (and snarling and gourmet-cooking) dogs and an unexpected villain. Though the initial images of flight are wonderfully rendered — the house shudders and creaks and splinters and groans as it’s ripped from its foundation by the balloons — the movie remains bound by convention, despite even its modest 3-D depth. This has become the Pixar way. Passages of glorious imagination are invariably matched by stock characters and banal story choices, as each new movie becomes another manifestation of the movie-industry divide between art and the bottom line. — Manohla Dargis , The New York Times
After the movie we went to Bloom, the hot coffee place owned by some Christians
Sunday, June 14, 2009
Day Nine: Sunday, June 14, 2009: Donner and Grad Party
Day Nine: Sunday, June 14, 2009
Church. Trip to Donner. Kevin and Sam Grad Party
I was thrilled to actually be able to be in church today. It will be weeks before I am back on a sunday again. I did the invocation and in the second service I made the announcement about the affirmation vote for Wayne on June 28.
After Christine was done playing in the second service we headed up to Donner to check in on Gordon and Manasa. Gordon had been imagining that a neighbor had been cutting down trees, that wires were loose and their were bugs in the carpet. He had even brought the police in last night and Christine had spoken with an officer on the phone.
Church. Trip to Donner. Kevin and Sam Grad Party
I was thrilled to actually be able to be in church today. It will be weeks before I am back on a sunday again. I did the invocation and in the second service I made the announcement about the affirmation vote for Wayne on June 28.
After Christine was done playing in the second service we headed up to Donner to check in on Gordon and Manasa. Gordon had been imagining that a neighbor had been cutting down trees, that wires were loose and their were bugs in the carpet. He had even brought the police in last night and Christine had spoken with an officer on the phone.
Saturday, June 13, 2009
Day Eight: Saturday, June 13, 2009: Chillin'
Day Eight: Saturday, June 13, 2009
Super Saturday. Chillin' Around the House
Got up and read for a bit. Went for a run and the walked with Christine and Ilsa. Then Christine and I drove over to the farmer's market at Sunrise. We bought a bottle of wine from Sierra Vista and some zucchini and a fresh portobello to have tonight with risotto.
When we got back home, we got Robert to wash and vacuum the car. He wanted some cash as he was going to ride his bike downtown for Second Saturday with Raph, Phil, and Emma (!). Then we actually did a little house and garage clean up and I wound up taking several bags to Goodwill.
Zoe got off work and almost immediately went over to Trina's to babysit Kees. Later in the evening Zoe called and wanted to know what to do as Kees was screaming. We tried but couldn't offer much help.
We also had an incident with Gordon up at the mountains. He has become paranoid about a number of things that he thinks he sees. He had been seeing people cutting down trees next door and today he was seeing exposed wires and was afraid that the cabin was going to burn down. He even got the police to come out and an officer spoke directly to Christine. Very sad. More to come on this front I am sure.
With all this going on we just had a great risotto dinner and caught up on some DDR.
Super Saturday. Chillin' Around the House
Got up and read for a bit. Went for a run and the walked with Christine and Ilsa. Then Christine and I drove over to the farmer's market at Sunrise. We bought a bottle of wine from Sierra Vista and some zucchini and a fresh portobello to have tonight with risotto.
When we got back home, we got Robert to wash and vacuum the car. He wanted some cash as he was going to ride his bike downtown for Second Saturday with Raph, Phil, and Emma (!). Then we actually did a little house and garage clean up and I wound up taking several bags to Goodwill.
Zoe got off work and almost immediately went over to Trina's to babysit Kees. Later in the evening Zoe called and wanted to know what to do as Kees was screaming. We tried but couldn't offer much help.
We also had an incident with Gordon up at the mountains. He has become paranoid about a number of things that he thinks he sees. He had been seeing people cutting down trees next door and today he was seeing exposed wires and was afraid that the cabin was going to burn down. He even got the police to come out and an officer spoke directly to Christine. Very sad. More to come on this front I am sure.
With all this going on we just had a great risotto dinner and caught up on some DDR.
Friday, June 12, 2009
Day Seven: Friday, June 12, 2009: The Stern Interview. Family Time at Cafe Delicias
Day Seven: Friday, June 12, 2009
Back in Sac. Summer Begins.
The Stern Interview. Family Time at Cafe Delicias
Even though it was near 2 a.m. when I went to bed I was still up at 7:30 raring in go. Christine had made an appointment for us to pick our glasses frames at ten and we got that taken care of relatively easily although it did cost nearly $500.
I got a call about Laura from a reporter from The Washington Post who had contacted me earlier. He only asked a couple of quick questions and that was it.
At 11 I went down to school to meet Giuseppe di Grazia from the German news magazine Stern. He had contacted me via Facebook about interviewing me and he actually agreed to drive up from San Francisco. What an interesting experience that turned out to be. He was born in Sicily but he moved to Germany with his parents when he was quite young. He is a reporter in the US for Stern Magazine living in NYC. Interestingly the magazine is published in Hamburg. He brought a photographer and her husband with him and for nearly two hours he interviewed me about Laura and they took well over 500 photos. It was very interesting the time and care he put intot he interview. In the end it was kind of uncomfortable especially with all the photos. I had to keep pleading with them to remember that it was n't about me. Again it was interesting to see how a professional journalist works. I also brought two disks of the vigil that Robert and I asked them to credit him if they used any of them.
After that I went to the credit union to deposit my yearbook stipend so I can use it for all my summer and workshop expenses. I really want to be aware of where all that money goes. I also went to The Bookworm and bought Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee as I want to learn more about the American Indians in South Dakota and the midwest.
After Zoe got off work and Kate packed, we all, including Robert, drove up to Auburn and had lunch at Cafe Delicias. It turned out to be a great family time that have become too far and between.
We had to stop by the Bookworm on the way home when I realized I had left my cell phone there. Then at 5:30 we drove kate out too the airpoirt so she could catch her 7 p.m. flight home.
Back in Sac. Summer Begins.
The Stern Interview. Family Time at Cafe Delicias
Even though it was near 2 a.m. when I went to bed I was still up at 7:30 raring in go. Christine had made an appointment for us to pick our glasses frames at ten and we got that taken care of relatively easily although it did cost nearly $500.
I got a call about Laura from a reporter from The Washington Post who had contacted me earlier. He only asked a couple of quick questions and that was it.
At 11 I went down to school to meet Giuseppe di Grazia from the German news magazine Stern. He had contacted me via Facebook about interviewing me and he actually agreed to drive up from San Francisco. What an interesting experience that turned out to be. He was born in Sicily but he moved to Germany with his parents when he was quite young. He is a reporter in the US for Stern Magazine living in NYC. Interestingly the magazine is published in Hamburg. He brought a photographer and her husband with him and for nearly two hours he interviewed me about Laura and they took well over 500 photos. It was very interesting the time and care he put intot he interview. In the end it was kind of uncomfortable especially with all the photos. I had to keep pleading with them to remember that it was n't about me. Again it was interesting to see how a professional journalist works. I also brought two disks of the vigil that Robert and I asked them to credit him if they used any of them.
After that I went to the credit union to deposit my yearbook stipend so I can use it for all my summer and workshop expenses. I really want to be aware of where all that money goes. I also went to The Bookworm and bought Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee as I want to learn more about the American Indians in South Dakota and the midwest.
After Zoe got off work and Kate packed, we all, including Robert, drove up to Auburn and had lunch at Cafe Delicias. It turned out to be a great family time that have become too far and between.
We had to stop by the Bookworm on the way home when I realized I had left my cell phone there. Then at 5:30 we drove kate out too the airpoirt so she could catch her 7 p.m. flight home.
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