Your Exceptional Life

Unfortunately, sometimes in the middle of the night, I need these guys. I’ve needed them on Saturdays and Sundays. And they’ve always been there. I have taken a stray hit by a car to them and they did right by him. I took my dear Xica to them once she had [...]

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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 on the way to work I drove by Newhall Park, like I do every morning.  The difference was this morning I saw something that caught my eye on the walking path.  I thought it was a loose dog, so I slowed to get a better look.  There, behind a tree, on the walking [...]

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It was an interesting weekend out here in Coco County. Gorgeous warm weather on Saturday and nice, but funky wind thing going on today. I took my new bike out and road it along the Canal Trail this afternoon. It’s much simpler to ride the trails than take your chances on surface [...]

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What a gorgeous weekend!  We’re kissing 90 degrees right now.  My dogs are tired from playing and are laying around.  I went out on a slow bike ride today.  While working out at Maverick’s yesterday, I slipped on my last deadlift and injured myself.  I haven’t hurt myself like this since 1996 or 1997.  It’s [...]

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I saw this on the Mortgage Cicerone this morning.  It’s actually not an April Fools joke, it’s pretty well thought out.
I was sitting in a bond closing a couple of months ago and the guys were playing with maps.live.com.  Most of them were high powered attorneys and had never seen it.  It’s something their paralegals [...]

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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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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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