John and I decided to check out the Great Handcar Regatta on Sunday.  Although it was over 103, we biked over.  Yes it was hot, but the valet bike parking and car parking mess made it totally worthwhile.  The local diners got into the mood and were also dressed accordingly.   Plus we got to [...]

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This Saturday marked another return to luxury, also known as Pamperfest.  Once  a year a dashing Ramon takes three lovely ladies to a day of drinks, massages a fabulous dinner with a chaser of more drinks.   Suffice to say Pamperfest is wonderful.  
We start with water, them comes the cascade of drinks.  

One of [...]

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I moved the smolt site a few months ago www.smolt.org.  With the move came more spam.  One lucky piece was this moring, a glorious email offering to increase my business and bumping up my page rank!  Or as they eloquently write:
The best way to promoter our lonely website on the Internet

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The weekend festivites started early.  John and I took Friday off, woke up at the crack of 11, clean the house a bit then made our way to Shoreline to see NIN and Janes Addiction with some buddies.  Traffic wasn’t so awful and we had time for a a stop in East Palo Alto [...]

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Last Weekend was hot hot hot hot!
Rachel  got her well deserved diploma on Saturday from Mills College.  John and I drove down to watch her receive the sheepskin and afterwards a par-te at her house.  
I had never been to Mills before, after a slight map quest mishap we found the college.  The snafu was actually lucky, [...]

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