A few years ago, a friend and coworker of mine told us of a nice place to go for a walk up near Sonora, called Table mountain. Table mountain is a mesa, and just below the ridgeline there is a nice trail, through a pasture.

A few years ago, a friend and coworker of mine told us of a nice place to go for a walk up near Sonora, called Table mountain. Table mountain is a mesa, and just below the ridgeline there is a nice trail, through a pasture.

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I was bottling some India pale ale on our back deck this weekend, busy filling the bottles before I cap them, when I found out that my adrenal gland still works.
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The wife, the pups, and I are heading for the Sierra foothills in a few hours. Mostly, when I get my to-do list to-done. Continue Reading »
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We live on a very wide street; counting the parking lanes, it’s seven lanes wide. It’s so wide that, each May, it’s used for a high school marching band competition.

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Mrs. Ombud enjoyed the new Star Trek movie, and I’m glad I saw it. Continue Reading »
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I spoke to Ms. Norberg, of StubHub. Continue Reading »
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I’ve heard back from a senior supervisor of executive customer care at StubHub. Those who stop by frequently might remember we had three spring training tickets stolen a week before we left town.
And now, two months after we began e-mailing and calling StubHub to try and replace the stolen tickets before we got to Florida, this comment was made to my March 14th post about getting into the ballgame, with no help from StubHub:
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Remember the spoof on Superman at the beginning of the cartoon show “Underdog”?
“What’s that in the sky!?” “It’s a bird!” “It’s a plane!” “It’s a frog!”
A frog?
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So, I’m sitting at a new desk at work. I don’t know how long I’ll be there, although the powers that be have moved my computer down to the new office, which is on the opposite corner of our block from where I used to work. It might be a matter of weeks, or months or even years. I might find out sometime before I retire.
Or I might not. Some things, in my mandarin work world, are determined not even in San Francisco, but in Sacramento. Let’s just say that there is a prominent politician who has appeared in Hollywood action movies who has a say in it, and leave it there.
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