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November 11, 07: My finger is
still sore but it works. My department at Novartis got bought
out by Bayer who is very different from my past experiences.
The company is still in Emeryville.
July 6, 07: It has been a couple
since I broke my
finger so I am mostly back to normal now. Setsuko is out of
town
:( and my mother came to visit so I don't chase the young girls around
while the wife is away. Setsuko bought me a Casio Z1050
camera
for Fathers day. I liked so much that I convinced my mother
to
get one.
May
21, 07: It has been three
weeks since I broke my finger now. I can type but it is not a
good idea to use the broken finger for typing. Now that I am
starting to update the site a little more reliably, I should start to
organize things a bit better. No promises but I hope to
improve the layout a bit. I am thinking about upgrading my
digital camera (actually getting my own camera), that is going to start
a whole new challenge on the bandwidth front.
April
5, 07:
I have been using Ubuntu Linux for close to a year now. I picked it up
at the Linux expo in San Francisco. It has
been working flawlessly since installation.
July
12: The
last month has been pretty busy. I wound up working a lot of overtime
and both of my web computers crashed. It seems that Suse Linux just
does funny things to me. The windows machine crashed hard. The hard
drive just quit running.
I installed
Ubuntu Linux then Debian Linux, now I am back to
Suse. Unfortunately it does not work as well as it used to.
June
06: After 3 months of
trying, I finally have the site up and running. It took a lot of
learning to get here but it was a lot of fun.
June
07: I
switched over from Mandriva to Suse linux this week. Suse is prettynice
but it took me about 20 hours to get it all installed and running.The
installation process is a total mess because of all the issuesgetting
the software installed. Every time I got a new program running,I had to
run through all 5 installation disks to finish the install.
Links:
The following
sites proved instrumental in the creation ofthis
site. It
takes a lot of work to create a web site, fortunatelythere is a lot of
help readily available.
I finally got around to installing a real live forum to the site.
This is an effort to keep people up to date since I don't
seem to be religous about keeping the site up to date or regularly
sending emails. Feel free sign up and post any updates to
what is happening wherever you happen to be. The bulletin
board should undergo regular updates as I get better at maintaining the
thing. If all goes well, there will be a link on the left
tool bar and one on the upper tool bar.
Sunday in the City!
Today is Sunday November 11, 2007. Teddy and I took a trip to the water
front to visit the book store and get some lunch and had a perfect day.
We found some good books for Teddy. He is reading the two Warriors of
the wild series' right now. We followed our book store visit with a
trip to Boudins
bakery and lunch shop. We both had clam chowder in a bread bowl. Boston
has better chowder but San Francisco has bread bowls to make up for it.
We ate outside in a perfect setting. It was about 70 degrees f or 20
degrees c for you canadians, and very sunny. Nice weather like that is
very rare in San Fran. Summers get a lot of fog
and winters get rain. It is always mild but rarely excellent.
Yosemite
Yosemite National Forest is one of the good things coming from the
Federal Government. The whole park is designed to maximize
preservation and access. It is a very difficult maintain the
balance
but they are doing the best they can. They have hybred buses
on the
valley floor to carry tourist around to the most popular destinations.
It is a great idea. It frees the roads
from traffic and there are no
parking issues at the trail heads. The trail heads look much
better
without gigantic parking lots leading up to the trails.
No Yosemite page yet but the photos can be found here.
Cherry
Blossom Festival
The Cherry Blossom Festival is one of many events held every
weekend
but it is my favorite. I love to see the unmatched elagance that should
be slow and regal followed by a group of taiko drums with limitless
energy. The taiko drums are so much fun to watch. Here is a link
to the SF taiko page with a youtube link. It is not as good as being
there but you get the idea.
American River Trail
The
American River Trail located in Sacramento, California and surrounding
communities is one of my favorite training grounds. The trail has 28
marked miles, most of whichare marked at half mile intervals. There is
plenty of room for runnersand cyclist thanks to the dirt running lanes
on both sides of thetrail.
The weather in Sacramento is nice
year round but it gets really hot
inthe afternoon during the summer months.
This
particular spot is called "Lake Natomas" located inFolsom, California.
There are trails on both sides of the lake herecreating a nice 13 mile
loop for marathon training and other assortedpurposes. There are 4
water stops on this loop with two of them veryclose together. The
American river trail is approximately 30miles long. It runs on one or
both sides of the river and lakes for the entire length.
Alameda
is an excellent place to live and exercise. We have a nice 7.5 mile
long
loop that is good for biking and running. About 60%of the loop is a
paved running/bike trail. There is also a 4 mile shortloop around the
golf course and along the bay that is very good.
The barn is a picture from Lake Tahoe. I really like the
way the colors match the lake and surrounding area.
Fall in Alameda is a wonderful time of year. Last Sunday, I
went out
for a jog along the waterfront with Teddy riding along his bike. It was
about 55-60 degrees out on a crystal clear morning with a low tide. Low
tide is a bit odd in Alameda because the mud flats are not as pretty to
look at but there is a lot more wild life to see. When we crossed the
foot bridge, we witnessed a duck fishing for breakfast. It is quite a
site watching a duck chase after fish in the morning.
