Monthly Archives: July 2010

Product Placement

July 26, 2010
I’ve been living out of the hotel for almost a week, and the check-in clerk gave me my favored room right near the gym area. This afternoon I made my routine visit, but without my laptop, having just finished watching the first season of The Wire and not being ready to start afresh on [...]
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Newf Gathering

July 19, 2010
Some folks on Newf.net started planning a get-together in very-convenient Estes Park about a year ago, and so it was with great excitement that Zamba and I drove up there last week for an afternoon with the gang. I would guess there were about twenty newfs, from puppy to 10-year-old. We swam in [...]
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The Rise and Fall of Builders

July 5, 2010
Last May, Kathy and I went into the city another weekend to visit a few of her high school friends who, coincidentally, were either living or visiting San Francisco at the time. It turns out they live on a street that looks a little like the one on the right (that one’s taken from [...]
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Happy Birthday

July 4, 2010
Happy Birthday, America. A few weeks back, on Memorial Day weekend, Kathy and I had the occasion to take a whirlwind tour of the greater San Francisco peninsula. Along the way, we stopped on a whim at the Golden Gate National Cemetery and enjoyed a beautiful sunny, breezy afternoon. I’d been to Arlington before, [...]
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