Sam, Jenny & Tia

Two weekends ago, on Friday, I met Sam, Jenny & Tia. Sam & Jenny were over from Virginia for the two weeks, while Tia hails originally from there but now Placerville – also known as “that small town with a couple of turns in it on the way to Tahoe”. ;) Anyway, we hit it… Read more

Moved

The move is complete. More or less. Last weekend was largely spent packing – interrupted, very welcomly albeit briefly, by a LAN party at Chris & Ryan’s – and the move itself happened on Monday. I had ML Movers do all the heavy lifting and hauling. It was expensive ($325 + $100 tip) but I… Read more

Pete’s weekend

Last Saturday I was invited out to Great America with Pete, Eyrene and some others whom I hadn’t previously met – Mickey, Ryan & Chris. Oh and Shelley turned up during the day, too, along with a few others whom didn’t hang with us perpetually, but whom we lingered about periodically. The invite came in… Read more

4th of July

Last weekend was something of a highlight, and an anomaly. Sket & Sean were here, as I’ll get to eventually, and they suggested heading up to Napa to see Sean’s uncle, Mike. As it turns out, we drove up to Petaluma, met Mike at the marina, and then spent the afternoon on Mike’s boat, along… Read more

Anvil

Just got back from seeing Anvil, which was followed by a Q&A with Anvil. I saw the trailer a month or so back, and though it looked interesting in a Spinal Tap kind of way; in fact I had to ask a few people – older people – if it was in fact fiction or… Read more

Skiing @ Heavenly

This last weekend I went up to Heavenly with Steve & Nils, to partake in some skiing. The trip up on Friday night was pretty much perfect – the roads were clear from the warm week and the lack of recent snow, so we made about as good time as can be made. We stayed… Read more

Hiking near Mount Hamilton

Julius is back in town for two weeks, so we went out yesterday for a wander in the ‘Joseph D Grant County Park’, up near Mount Hamilton. It’s a fairly barren, but it has some nice views of the presently snow-tipped Mount Hamilton and Lick Observatory up the top there. Afterwards we went and saw… Read more