News and Views

Gisele and I are going away for a week or so. First to Las Vegas for two nights, then San Francisco to visit Gisele’s sister Angela, then finally down to Pasadena to visit Devon. Leaving tomorrow (Monday) morning, back early the next week. Derek is still on winter break, but decided to stay home and […]

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Gisele’s sister Angela fell last week and broke her arm. Gisele flew up to San Francisco today to spend a week with her, helping out until she is feeling better. So I’m a bachelor/single father/dog sitter this week. I think Gisele is glad to have an excuse to visit her sister anyway!

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Benjamin Bates is the son of my old and good friend Don Bates (since our days together at Flowing Wells High School), who are both also my colleagues in the creation of the aznb.com websites. Benjamin has a degree in (I think) Theater Arts, and has dabbled in making a couple of short films. He […]

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We had an extreme wind storm last night, about 9:00. Trees are blown down and branches broken all over the neighborhood. Fortunately the only damage at my house was one roof tile and a few small branches (and lots of twigs). Here are some pictures. That’s my bicycle and garage door. Fortunately the tree missed […]

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It was about 10 years ago I sent out an email describing the strange chill that had come over the house in the night. It turned out that we had acquired a teenager as Devon turned 13. Our last teenager, Derek, just turned 20 on Wednesday. We celebrated by taking him out to his choice […]

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Poor Apollo! About a week ago we noticed that he was licking his paw a lot. We looked at it but did not see anything unusual. Then today he was licking it again, and saw that it was quite red under the fur on the top of his paw. We took him to the vet, […]

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We closed escrow on the house this morning. We were over there most of the day, installing smoke detectors, curtain rods, etc. The other two boys started moving in while we were there, though I don’t think anybody will sleep there tonight. We will have to go back over tomorrow and finish up a few […]

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I posted a comment in Donna’s blog about the leaks in my house from the very heavy rain last week. Two spots were especially bad — 3 buckets worth in the garage, and damaged drywall in the kitchen. I spent the last two days on the roof over the garage. I started there because there […]

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We are buying a new house. No, we are not moving; Derek is. We are buying a 3 bedroom house near the university, and Derek and two friends will rent it from us. Derek will probably get a good break on the rent… 😉 I’m a little nervous buying right now, with the housing market […]

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After traveling more than 30 hours, Derek finally got home Tuesday night just before midnight. He went from Moscow to Warsaw, then his flight from Warsaw to Chicago was 2 hours late and he missed his connection. They put him on another flight to Phoenix, but that was 2 hours delayed. But he finally made […]

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