Your Exceptional Life

I received an email from Senator Boxer today. While I don’t discuss politics on this blog, her email contained some great history of Port Chicago. I’ve excerpted it:
Port Chicago was the site of a major disaster on the night of July 17, 1944 when an explosion rocked the Port Chicago Naval Magazine, an [...]

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Some people catch fire for no particular reason. And some strike lighting.
Rest in Peace.
“The brick walls are not there to keep us out; the brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something. The brick walls are there to stop the people who don’t want it badly [...]

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My goodness it was a hot four days there.  PG&E keeps sending me these things about installing some air conditioning switch that they operate from headquarters and turn up or down or something your air conditioning when you’re at work.  Then you get some sort of break.  What kind of break do you get if [...]

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This morning was a fine how do you do.  It’s raining, in Concord on May 24th, Memorial Day weekend.  This so cancels this morning’s bike ride.  I’ve been reading in various articles how people are staying home more now that gasoline has hit $4. a gallon.  It’s driving up the cost of everything.  The GM [...]

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An era ended around these parts.  Dennis Richmond retired from KTVU 2 news.  He’s been doing the news for 80 percent of my life.  His voice is the soothing voice of reason when disaster has struck the Bay Area.  I’ve never met him in person, but he’s always been hanging around somehow.  Enjoy your retirement, [...]

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Tonight, throughout the country, world.  Take a moment for the cyclists that have been hurt and/or killed by vehicles.

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There’s been a lot of talk in the news and on the street about foreclosures. I am more intimately involved in this than most people, being in the title business. It helps that one of my closest friends is the Junkman. Yesterday, I held an open house for another friend of [...]

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I watched a woman driving up Treat Blvd. last Monday night.  She was in the lane next to me, swerving all over the lane, not because she was drunk but because she was texting and driving.  This just came across my desktop and I’ll link to it here for all my cycling friends.  The weather’s [...]

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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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