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Archive for May, 2009

Off to the Foothills

Posted in animals, dogs, nature, pets, travel, walking on May 30, 2009| 4 Comments »

 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. (more…)

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Battle of the High School Marching Bands

Posted in entertainment, music, photography, walking on May 30, 2009| 11 Comments »

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.

20090516_0285 redux

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Time travel and the new Star Trek movie

Posted in entertainment, fiction, movies, rants, technology on May 29, 2009| 9 Comments »

Mrs. Ombud enjoyed the new Star Trek movie, and I’m glad I saw it. (more…)

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The Phone Call with StubHub

Posted in baseball, entertainment, life, rants, sports, technology, travel on May 24, 2009| 3 Comments »

 I spoke to Ms. Norberg, of StubHub. (more…)

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StubHub follows up

Posted in baseball, rants, sports, travel on May 7, 2009| 11 Comments »

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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An amphibious interlude

Posted in animals, gardening, nature on May 2, 2009| 4 Comments »

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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