Spent the entire day at the San Diego Zoo with my high school friend, Barbara. It was empty enough where we actually walked a good 90% of the park and saw almost all the animals. Two new exhibited animals I saw were a Maned Wolf and a Leopard. Half the guests there were from Green …
Category: Friends
Nov 06 2011
Hot Chocolate With Cars Two
Tried my second new drink in a row from a Starbucks, that was already surrounded by Christmas decorations to buy, in a Vons grocery store. I ordered a Salted Caramel Hot Chocolate. Took it back to the Tapias to finally watch Cars 2, which I absolutely loved. Amazing movie. Not as much heart as the …
Nov 05 2011
Insidious BBQ
Picked up some great barbecue from Phi’s BBQ with the Tapias and had dinner in Chula Vista, followed by a late night viewing of the scary movie Insidious. The food was awesome as usual. The movie was mostly good scary entertainment. First 2/3 of the movie was fairly good and unnerving, but it went downhill …
Nov 02 2011
Brief But Sweet
Had a very short but enjoyable video chat with Brenda in Austin, Texas. She showed me that her flight itinerary was all set for her December visit to southern California. Disneyland on my birthday with Brenda. Nice present.
Oct 30 2011
Vonsing, Starbucks Novelty, Pizzas and A Harry Potter Double Feature
Went along on a grocery shopping trip, ordered a (gasp!) new drink (Salted Caramel Mocha) from Starbucks instead of my ever-usual Caramel Macchiato, picked up some pizzas for dinner and sat and watched both Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince as well as Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part One. Perfect way to close …
Oct 25 2011
Two Shortest Saints
Met up with my old high school buddy John this afternoon. First time I’ve seen him since graduating thirty five years ago . We sat down outside a Starbucks at University Town Center in La Jolla and never once talked about high school.
Oct 22 2011
O’Cains Part Two
Our friends who arrived yesterday came over again this morning for some breakfast and a visit with my sister, her husband and my older brother who brought over his three kittens. They were here for only a few hours before continuing on their journey to meet up with more old friends.
Oct 21 2011
Old, Old Friends
Old family friends who we haven’t seen in over forty years arrived this afternoon for a quick 24 hour visit. Too bad I can’t remember them other than by their family name. We sat and chatted, then went out for a Mexican dinner at Tio Carlos in the Midway area meeting my older brother and his kids …
Oct 19 2011
Rest Now, Georgia
One of the neighbor dogs that I occasionally would dog-sit passed away today. She was quite mature and not in the best of health, but she was a good, loyal dog and she will be missed.
Oct 16 2011
Walk Along Rose Marie Starns
Went for a truncated evening walk along Rose Marie Starns South Shores Park at Mission Bay with the Tapias. It quickly got cold and windy once the sun set. Saw two cool things: first, someone was flying a glowing radio-controlled plane above us, and second, a satellite also flew over us as we got back …
Oct 16 2011
Visiting José And Rosi
Met the Tapias at José and Rosi’s house to sit and visit with them for a while before doing today’s Apple thing. José is still healing from his brain surgery from two weeks ago. Except for his scar he’s looking and acting very normal. ( c a r v a j a l p …
Oct 15 2011
New Video Chat, New Phone
Brenda called to have a video chat so she could show me her new LG Optimus V cell phone running Android 2.2 Froyo. Today she officially switched from T-Mobile to Virgin Mobile (which uses the Sprint network here in the U.S.). She went with Virgin Mobile because she didn’t have to sign the usual two-year …
Oct 09 2011
Fall Decorating At The Tapias
Went along with Sylvia for her fall decor shopping at Michael’s (where the line was way too long to wait in) and Target where she picked up a really cool giant plastic pre-carved jack-o-lantern which was placed on top of their front lamppost. We spent the afternoon decorating their front entryway before stopping to relax …
Oct 08 2011
Party For José
Went to a family party at José’s house to celebrate his quick recovery after brain surgery. Even family from out of town showed up for this one. We had fantastic chili, corn bread and dump cake, all home-made by the Tapias. ( p a r t y p i c s )
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