Marilyn – Val – Camping
August 9-12 Val and I went to a completely different kind of camping at Leather Levi Weekend August 9-12. As usual, a life-altering experience.
Kathie – Kids – Camping
Kathie and Joanie took all 3 girls down to Thousand Trails in Gilroy for a fun few days of camping August 4-7. I gather swimming, bike riding, and games were most of the fun.
Busy Weekend
This is what Val and I accomplished over the weekend:
- Cleaned up the mess left after all of the work on the media cabinet
- Laundry
- Showed the 22nd street house to many prospective tenants
- Grocery shopping
- Much paperwork
- Bank deposit
- Party supplies for LLW
- Last-minute treasurer duties for LLW
- Cooked a yummy dinner on Saturday night
- Exiles orientation
- Exiles business meeting
- Tried to keep up with recordings from the Olympics
Wow, tired just thinking about it!
Dinner with Tina and Michael
The whole family had dinner out with Tina (Uncle Bobby’s sister) and her boyfriend Michael at Luna Park in SF last Friday the 3rd. They’re here on vacation until Tuesday the 7th. It was great to connect and catch up.
Lunch with Francesca
Had a nice dim sum lunch at ABC Seafood in Foster City with Francesca. She invited a surprise guest, Barbara Yee, with whom Francesca and I worked at Xerox many years ago. It was great to catch up.
Art Class for Katelyn
Katelyn and I went to Michael’s last week to buy Copic Markers, fancy artists’ markers. While there we met Barbara Golden, an artist who lives in Foster City and offers classes on how to use the markers. Katelyn attended one of her classes on Tuesday 7/31.
Company Picnic
I picked Haley up from the camp bus and we headed over to Menlo College for the Guidewire Company Picnic. It was great fun with good food, a petting zoo complete with fuzzy chickens, goats, deer, and bunnies, face painting (although the girls got their arms painted), carnival games, a bouncy house (the girls were too old, though), and lots of nice people. It was quite a contrast to last year when I knew almost nobody because I’d just started at the company. This year I knew lots of people and had a great time introducing Val and the kids to everyone.
Pictures here.
Tuba
Last week I dropped my tuba off at Manor Music because, well, it’s just a rental and it has to be returned each summer for cleaning. I’ve been considering buying a tuba so I wasn’t sure if I wanted to rent for another year, but then I checked out the prices. Turns out it’s not unusual to pay $3000-$8000 for a tuba! So I figure I’ll keep renting, especially since they pay for repairs and yearly cleaning. Last Saturday I got one almost identical to the other one, only in better shape.
Updated A/V
We decided to get a new remote because the olod one didn’t have intuitive programming, and with our new setup we really needed something different. Additionally, we needed a bit of help with the setup. So Val got someone to come in and take care of it all, so it works better now. We’re still getting used to the new remote.
Media Cabinet Part III
Irene came back on Thursday and she and Val got everything all in the cabinet and the doors on. It looks great!
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