The concert at St. Chapelle was remarkable. It was just getting to be dusk when I arrived, and as the sun set the amazing stained glass windows became less and less luminous. Fantastic to be able to sit and watch the day end in such a place. After the concert we walked back to our apartment. The evening was warm and soft, the last temps doux we’re likely to see […]
“Tableau cassé” (I think), thanks to Sparty, who ruined the last bracket that could possibly have prevailed in the SCP Tournament Challenge. But as I wrote to my co-workers, “If my bracket is going to get busted, no better way to do it than Sparty taking out the evil Dookies.” Bye-bye Zion and Krzyzewski, not sorry to see you go. Go Big Ten in the Final Four. Today for us […]
We begin by returning to Friday night, Suzie and I at the Paris FC v. Auxerre soccer match. Google put a highlight video from that match in my news feed, and when watching it discovered that Suzie and I were in the upper-right hand corner of two “crowd reaction” shots, at 0:40 and 1:27 of the video at the link above. Cool. I omitted to mention that even though the […]
Today was another gorgeous day weather-wise (69 and sunny, with two more days of the same on the way, according to the forecasts), but an odd day other-wise. We’d decided to go and see the gardens and home of Claude Monet in Giverny, which is an hour-and-fifteen-minute train ride west of Paris. We’d never been, and our thought was that a day in the countryside would be a good change […]
A quick post before we head off to a Ligue 2 soccer match (Paris FC vs Auxerre) at 8. Today started on an odd note; after the second flush of the day, our toilet would not stop running, and despite my and Suzie’s attempts to futz with an entirely alien mechanism (where’s the floating ball? where’s the chain? for that matter, where does the water come out?), we finally had […]
After a long trip that got better as it went along (amazing flight from LAX to Paris, no lines at passport control, and our bags were the second and third off the plane), we arrived at our apartment at about 1 pm and after having some coffee, grabbing a quick lunch at a nearby creperie (the Creperie Little Breizh, outstanding for the price), and doing some grocery shopping at the […]
Suzie and I walked down to the Solano Avenue area for lunch (at Bangkok Jam Thai, which I hadn’t remembered being so good), then walked back, 1.7 miles and 640 feet, up several of the small public paths that run throughout the Berkeley Hills. We were huffing and puffing; some of the paths were steep, especially on a full stomach. The walk afforded us some excellent views on a relatively […]
Packing up to head back to Kensington after a short trip to Santa Rosa. Suzie was honored at the PDI Make Kids Smile Awards Dinner on Friday evening, and the boys came over from Davis to attend and stayed the night. On Saturday we went up Wikiup Drive and trespassed on our old property. I wonder a quoi ça sert, I found it odd to be back there but Suzie and the kids […]
Sitting in our new house in Kensington, watching the sun stream through the windows and warm the hardwood floor, it occurs to me that … I’m happy. Not that everything is perfect. I still have multiple myeloma, and it’s likely to recur in 1, 2, 3, 5, 7 or “x” unknown number of years, and it might eventually kill me. But that aside, things are good. Suzie and I both […]
We’re back in Wikiup for few days for a dinner tomorrow with friends, and this afternoon we took the opportunity afforded by the break between rainstorms to take one of our old walks. A few (warped fisheye!) pictures from our loop today are below, click on any of them to enlarge. I may have mentioned what an amazing job Suzie did in remodeling the small condo we have in the […]