News and Views

Derek graduated from high school yesterday, so we no longer have any “kids” in the family. We do have a couple of young men in college, so that’s not a bad trade. Derek graduated 5th in a class of about 500. He was President of the National Honor Society his senior year and Saxophone Section […]

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They caught the man who killed our friend. See here. The wounded mother and father have been discharged from the hospital, and are staying at an undisclosed location. It feels good that he is not running around, and will have to pay for his insanity, but “feels good” is only relative, since our friend, Zhao […]

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These 3 were all friends of Gisele (and me). They went to Gisele’s church. We gave them our love seat when we didn’t need it anymore. I was at their house more than once to help with computer problems. They were such nice people. Every time we would visit they would try to feed us, […]

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We’ve got a little travel planned for the summer. Gisele is going to France for a tour of castles (“Chateaus”) the first couple of weeks of June. Then the first three weeks of July the whole family is going to Peru. We’re friends with a family who came from there and they have organized a […]

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Derek is doing the long jump, high jump and triple jump this year in track. Last week there was an invitational track meet with 8 schools participating. Derek won the long jump event with the longest individual jump of 19′ 7″. Not bad to be the best out of 8 schools! There is an asterisk, […]

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I’m flying out to California tomorrow (Thursday) morning to see if I can fix Devon’s computer. My return is scheduled for Friday evening, but if things go very well I may try to come back earlier. We’ll see!

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We’re driving Devon and Keri back to California and college tomorrow (Sunday, 1/15). Over and back in one day again, as usual. Our thoughts are with our “other” Carrie, Brian’s wife, as she goes through eye surgery.

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Derek has been participating in a class at school that competed in the “We The People” competition. The students represent their schools, and are judged on their understanding of the constitution and US government. A few weeks ago Derek’s school (Marcos De Niza) won their district, and yesterday they went to the state competition. The […]

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Boy, I thought 30 minutes would be enough buffer to catch the whole game, but it looks like I needed another 30. Tivo stopped recording with 5 or 6 seconds left in the first overtime. Double overtime, 1-point win! They don’t get much more exciting than that! Nice comeback, too. We are currently at the […]

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Mom and Donna came over for Christmas, as well as Bill and Esther Wright. Donna made home-made cinnamon rolls — they were delicious! In the late afternoon, Kelvin and Grace Inouye came over with their daughter, Keri (Devon’s girlfriend) for dessert and a couple of rounds of Taboo. I ate too much, but it was […]

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