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Suddenly I feel much stronger…

So I've been swimming along Bayshore Beach in Long Beach getting in shape for a September triathlon. Chuck has been kayaking along beside me, giving me grief when I slow down or my stroke gets really sloppy (in his mind most of the time). He told me initially that it ...

Life, etc.

Wow, I haven't posted in a while. Happily it's because we've been busy doing fun stuff in between work stuff. We spent a great long weekend in Ventura/Oxnard last weekend at a beach house. We spent one day hiking on Santa Cruz Island. What an amazing and beautiful place - ...

To upgrade or not to upgrade…

Apple announced the new iPhone 3GS this week, and good little Apple fangirl that I am, it made my heart go pitterpat. But once my heart rate returned to normal, reality set in (well, actually reality in the form of a $399 upgrade cost) and I decided to really take ...

Adventures in the not-so wild west

We're just home from a week in Colorado visiting family and doing a bit of sightseeing. Chuck's niece Katie had been visiting us in California for a few weeks with a friend, so we all flew back to Colorado together and Katie's mom (and Chuck's sister) Angie met us at ...

The Civil War comes to Long Beach

We had a great time yesterday at the second annual Long Beach Civil War Reenactment this weekend. It was absolutely fascinating. I'm something of a Civil War buff, but we went with some friends and some kids, and everybody enjoyed it. After the battle, we heard a Lincoln look-alike deliver ...

Body check

Chuck and I went in to see our dermatologist for our six month check-ups today. That means full body checks for both of us. As former sun worshippers, we almost always have something that needs to be frozen off or cut out. Today it was my mole - the mole ...

When the Internet breaks

Our fiber optic modem decided to give up the ghost, pushed up the daisies, kicked the bucket, shuffled off its mortal coil, run down the curtain and joined the bleedin' choir invisibile (to paraphrase Monty Python)!! We're not quite sure what caused it, but because it happened right before the ...

El Prieto redux

I just finished uploading some awesome new photos taken by our friend Gerry on Saturday at this year's El Prieto Handicap race. He caught some great action shots of people running, and he was positioned at a point early enough in the race (at the bottom of the El Prieto ...

Celebrating

This weekend marked the 16th annual El Prieto Handicap - Chuck's annual race. It's a very neat event, held in the San Gabriel Mountains in an area called Oak Grove Park. Two miles of the race is on a single track trail called El Prieto (hence the race name), and ...

Run-around Chuck

Time flies when you're getting your life back to some semblance of normal. It's been six weeks (!!) since Chuck's last chemo treatment and he has actual hair growing (versus chia fuzz) on his head and his beard is also returning. His energy is returning and his taste buds are ...