I just got back on Wednesday from playing Youth concerts with Symphony Silicon Valley, an excellent orchestra based in San Jose, CA. It’s considered to be one of the best orchestras in the San Francisco Bay area, after the San Francisco Symphony, Ballet and Opera ensembles.
Here’s a link about the orchestra: SYMPHONY SILICON VALLEY
The first [...]
BOOKMARKS!
Hundreds of them have accumulated on my computer over the past couple of years.
Tonight I am finally grabbing the Firefox browser monkey by the neck — ripping it off my back — and starting to go through each and every bookmark to see if:
1.) …the links still work. (A surprising number of them don’t!)
2.) …I [...]
James and I went down to our dear friend L.’s house in Nevada City for Thanksgiving dinner yesterday afternoon. It was also wonderful to see her old friends J. & S. who spend this holiday there almost every year (along with July 4th).
We had not seen these friends for six years, at a July 4th [...]
For the second day in a row, our quiet skies are being BUZZED by small planes and copters, searching the area for marijuana crops.
The guy and gal who came out to install the HughesNet satellite internet system yesterday (HOORAY! It’s definitely faster than dialup! We like that!) said that they’d read something about it in [...]
Last Wednesday, James and I accompanied our dear friend L. to a Tea Room in Nevada City. It’s upstairs from an antique store; part of the same family business which has been in town for many years.
Ordinarily, James and I wouldn’t seek out such a place, but L. has been wanting us to go there [...]
All of a sudden, it seems that everything has gotten so much more sophisticated on the WorldWide Web.
Since James and I gave away our television to a thrift store in St. Louis in March of 2002 — we couldn’t STAND it anymore! — most of our news comes from the computer.
During most of [...]
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