Last year, I finally tried something I’ve been meaning to try for a while. Instead of buying memberships at both the San Jose Art Museum and the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, I bought a $150 membership at the San Jose Art Museum which included a North American Reciprocal Museum (NARM) membership (as well [...]
This April has not been a good month for me, but I’m trying to make it work. In particular, field trips and parties make for nice diversions, and this month alone (among other fun adventures) we had a wonderful visit to the Exploratorium; found a lone banana slug in the remote Portola Redwoods; and had [...]
I’ve been working hard and been rather stressed lately, so I decided to give Charybdis and Scylla Academy a spring break. To begin, I gave Neil a minimal day of academics: a paper on the late middle ages (for which he wrote about Philip the Fair), a few chapters of Ivanhoe, and learning how to [...]
I recently happened to make an investment move so astute my broker complimented me on the action when it was done. I’m not rich; I just managed to lose less money than I would have if I’d kept my money in the market. So forthwith, based on my one brilliant move, I am sharing with [...]
I have to say this year has been exciting, and at times spectacular for me. In February, I got to revisit Germany for the first time in many, many years. I had a great time, but I missed my family much more than I expected to. And one lasting part of the experience is that [...]
As I’ve blogged before, Kelly and Shiaw-Ling share the same birthdate, exactly 21 years apart. And Shiaw-Ling always throws great parties, in the vein of great party givers, who know a great party requires a theme. This year’s theme was “poverty.” Very kindly, Shiaw-Ling held off on the fashion portion of her party until we [...]
When we went downtown to visit Peter and have fun on Friday, Kelly and I got off a different light rail stop to see if it was any different to get to the office. As it turned out, the sidewalks in front of the Tech Museum were being closed off an we had to wander [...]
San Diego’s children’s museum is only two blocks away from the convention center, and I took Kelly (and later Neil as well) there as an escape from the Comic-Con craziness. I’d been there many years before when Neil was a toddler, so it was a surprise to me that this incarnation of the museum was [...]
It had been a long time since I’d gone to see a movie in a movie theatre, so long that the Camera Cinemas discount card (10 movies for $50) I still had had been phased out for a new one (10 movies for $60). But this month, I got back into the habit of seeing [...]
I don’t like to be a time hog when I take time off for myself, so after already indulging myself in an afternoon of magazine reading, I didn’t think I had time to check out the Zero 1 art festival. But as I was going past the art cars lined up along Plaza de Cesar [...]
