Walked around for about an hour in Old Town here in San Diego listening to my iPod and taking pictures before meeting up with my great friends Sylvia and Lannie for lunch at the Old Town Mexican Café. We chatted, reminisced and caught up with what’s been going on in our lives lately while enjoying some terrific Mexican …
Category: Friends
Jan 16 2012
The Zoo With Six Females
After spending an hour walking around the San Diego Zoo by myself listening to my iPod and taking pictures of, amongst other things, a great encounter with one of the Malayan Tiger cubs, I met up with my friends Mary and her daughter, a maximumly pregnant Bethany and her daughter, and Brooke and her daughter. …
Jan 14 2012
Visiting A Broken Jane
My mom and I went down the street to spend some time with our friend, Jane, who broke her ankle walking her dog, Bella, on Christmas Day. She’s still going to be in a cast for quite a while, and hating every minute of it. An actor friend of hers, Neil, was also visiting for …
Jan 13 2012
Evening Walk In Coronado
Met my friends Sylvia, Rodrigo, Lilo and Stitch at Tidelands Park in Coronado this evening. We walked up to the Coronado Ferry Landing where we went out on the pier to check out the shimmering downtown skyline as it got dark, and then went back to the Ferry Landing where we sat down for a …
Jan 12 2012
Richard Alf Memorial
Drove up to Ramona to attend the memorial for my friend, Richard Alf, who passed away last week. I arrived about an hour early so I could take pictures of Bonham Bros. and Stewart Mortuary and then have some time to walk around downtown Ramona before heading back for the service. Was planning on visiting …
Jan 10 2012
The Early Years Of Comic Con
I was emailed a link to a brief television interview with two of the founding members of the San Diego Comic Con, one of whom was a friend of mine who passed away a few days ago and the other whom I only recently met for the first time. It was great listening to their …
Jan 06 2012
Lounging On Burgers
Met my friends Sylvia, Mary and her husband Dave at the Burger Lounge in Coronado. Heard good things about the joint. It was quite small and cramped but the food was very good. They did get a little bit of the order wrong, but it wasn’t worth mentioning. The food might be worth going back …
Jan 04 2012
RIP Richard
Just received word that my friend, Richard Alf, who I went to see yesterday in a care facility, died today. He was one of the original group of comic book fans that Shel Dorf had brought together to create the San Diego Comic Convention. Judging by the outpouring of support from friends around the world, …
Jan 03 2012
My Last Time With Richard
Went to see my friend Richard again today, for his final day at the rehab center. His friends Paul Sammon and Mike Towry were there again as well and Earl, who Richard will be staying with starting tomorrow, also came by to talk to the hospice representatives. I’m fairly certain that this will have been …
Jan 02 2012
Care Visit #3: Broken Ankle
After visiting my brother and his cats, my mom and I stopped by an actress friend of ours who recently broke her ankle while walking her dog. Luckily her boy friend had just returned from a trip to take care of her while she can’t walk. Bella, her dog, is finally starting to warm up to me and kept …
Jan 02 2012
Care Visit #1: A Sick Old Friend
Went to visit an old friend today who I had heard was quite sick and staying at a rehabilitation home. His condition once I saw him shocked me fairly deeply. It reminded me very much of how my father looked just before he passed away. That was rather uncomfortable, especially since he couldn’t respond to …
Jan 01 2012
Zumayas Stop By
A nice surprise on this first day of the new year was an unexpected visit by my good friends Randy and Michaelle, along with their two kids, while my sister was also here, confabulating with my mom. They didn’t stay very long, but it was a pleasant disruption to our evening.
Jan 01 2012
Hello 2012
2012 started with a bright, sunny morning. (Since I slept a bit later than usual, it was after all the dense fog had burned away.) The morning delivered some terrific French toast casserole that Sylvia had started the night before. After topping it off with some creamy, brown sugar and cinnamon paste with some walnuts …
Dec 31 2011
So Long, 2011
So my last day of the year started out innocently enough, with me finishing up some uninteresting, non-blog-worthy tasks. That was until I went down to Sylvia and Rodrigo’s house in fog-encased Chula Vista. We watched a couple of episodes of “Mad Men,” and then had pizza for dinner while playing a few rounds of …
Dec 30 2011
Annual International Auto Show
Enjoyed my annual attending of the San Diego International Auto Show at the Convention Center downtown by the bay. This year I was accompanied by my friends José, Rodrigo and Archie. All guys…huh. My focus, as usual, was not on the cars normal people would buy every day. That’s boring. I was aiming my camera …
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