Your Exceptional Life

Big props to the City of Concord for getting Clayton Road finished and open EARLY!  I noticed it right away driving up Ayers and I wasn’t sitting in traffic, then I thought “Hey, the signs are gone!”  Well done.
My latest favorite website to play with is Map My Run.   You plot out your course, in [...]

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And I feel fine.

Thanks to the Chronicle for the graphic. I thought it was important because of the mild uptick last month. It is my opinion that if the Bay Area real estate market hasn’t hit the bottom, we’ve touched it. One of the real estate blogs (I would quote them if [...]

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Today is a public service announcement.  The City is working on Clayton Road and traffic is rerouted down Ayers.  This morning I was walking my dogs and crossing Ayers.  I was almost run down by a driver who was speeding and was intending, until she saw me in the middle of the street, on running [...]

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The Lindsay Wildlife Museum will be closed Easter Sunday, but open all next week due to spring break.  They have an exhibit up there right now called Bring the Condors Home.  I’m always overcome with childlike amazement when an endangered specie returns from the brink as the condors did.
Tonight it’s March Madness up at the [...]

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One of my all time favorite foot races is the Dipsea.  It is the most grueling 7.1 miles you will ever spend racing.  To say it’s an over hill over dale sort of race would be to sell it short.  It’s completion is one of the major accomplishments of my life, even though 80 year [...]

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I was working in the stock market in 2001 when the dot com bomb took place. Back then people were saying you just couldn’t lose in the stock market. Then the worm turned and it was ugly. A friend of mine had a client who was heavily invested in Level 3. [...]

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I stopped by Navlet’s in Pleasant Hill on Saturday.  There were two representatives from the Contra Costa Mosquito and Vector Control District working a table.  I stopped by just out of curiousity.  These guys deal with mosquitoes, which equals West Nile Virus, rats and mice, yellow jackets, ticks and bees.  (Bees are the good guys).  I [...]

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Here’s a listing of the farmer’s markets occurring this and every weekend in our area.
SATURDAY

Market
Location
Times
Months Open

Danville Certified Farmers Market
Railroad and Prospect
9AM-1PM
Year Round

El Cerrito Certified Farmers Market
El Cerrito Plaza
9AM-1PM
Year Round

Orinda Certified Farmers Market
Avenida de Orinda and Orinda Way
9AM-1PM
May-Nov.

Pinole Certified Farmers Market
Civic Center P. Lot/ Plum and Prune
9AM-1PM
May-Nov.

Pittsburg Certified Farmers Market
Railroad and 6th
9AM-1PM
May-Nov

Pleasant Hill Certified Farmers Market
100 Gregory [...]

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It’s a great time to catch a movie or see an exhibit.  There are a couple of great exhibits in the City right now.  I’m a huge Annie Leibovitz fan.  They have a large exhibit of her work at the Legion of Honor, through May 25th.  Few have photographed more influential people of our era.

I [...]

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I just ran across this article about the greenest Cities in America.   Of the top fifty in the nation, seven of them are in the Bay Area.  Number 43 is our very own Concord.  Say what?  Out of all the cities in this country, that’s quite an accomplishment.  San Francisco was number two, not surprising [...]

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