Peter surprised me with tickets to see a new (well, new to me) comedian, Don McMillan, at San Jose’s spiffy Improv comedy club. You can always see the comedian well from any seat in the club, and it seems curiously heckle-proof. You can always hear what the person on stage is saying clearly, but anything [...]
Last night, Peter and I went to San Francisco to see Stan Ridgway perform at the Great American Music Hall. It was one of the most enjoyable concerts I’ve seen in a long time, and the acoustics at the Great American Music Hall (which I’d never been in before) were great.
I haven’t really been in [...]
I do go on and on about how jazzed we are to have our offices downtown now. We end up seeing a lot more of downtown San Jose, and there’s always more fun to be had.
The weekend before, we’d gone downtown to see the fireworks and thanks to our office building, were able to drive [...]
Since shortly after we moved downtown, Peter has been biking to his offices downtown a few times a week via the Highway 87 Bike Path, which is paved, but mostly off-road. I’ve been intrigued by it, and I finally had a chance to bike it myself on Saturday, while Peter stayed home with the children.
Frankly, [...]
On Monday Neil went on a field trip that ran until 6 pm. Kelly was too young to tag along if I were a chaperone, so we had our own field trip and went to the beach.
Everyone has a favorite beach. Peter loves the windy overcast beaches on the coast south of Half Moon Bay, [...]
For the Wednesday of Spring Break, my friend Becky invited me and some of her other friends to join her at the Lawrence Hall of Science in Berkeley. Of course we went: the Lawrence Hall of Science is one of Neil’s favorite science museums, and Neil likes it even more with friends. And he gets [...]
While we were in Southern California, we figured we might as well stop in at one of our favorite amusement parks, Legoland, where Neil has a lifetime membership. On the down side, even though Neil was skipping a day of school to go there, it turns out Southern California schools were either having their Spring [...]
Despite the fact that Wizard World LA was an overpriced, underattended bust of a show, we did go to part of it, and had a lot of fun. It was after all, at its heart, no matter the size, a comic book show with fun, funny, and fun-loving people.
As I wrote in an earlier post, [...]
Neil likes hanging out with his dad at comic book conventions; and Kelly wanted to stay at the hotel, mostly (I think) because it had a heated pool we liked playing in. But Peter discouraged us from driving in to the show on Saturday, and recommended we take in one of the very many other [...]
I’ve lived in northern California long enough now to instinctively dread and dislike LA. It’s a rather odd aspect of northern Californians, the automatic dislike for their own state’s largest city. In contrast, Angelenos will express their love for San Francisco and its beauty if the subject ever comes up. In fact, I’m not even [...]
