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TSA Afraid of Rocks
Ever since I read “Why It’s Time To Break The Code Of Silence At The Airport” by Christopher Elliott (15 February 2013, TheHuffingtonPost) and my daughter’s TSA posts (including “TSA Touching Crosses The Line: Update”), I have been considering how … Continue reading
Filed under Church, Home & Family, Mentoring & Other Business, News & Reviews, Politics
Creating a Cactus Garden, Part 3 (interviewing rocks)
I have been interviewing rocks. That is to say, I have hundreds of garden rocks of sizes from the diameter of my fist to twice the size of my head, plus many smaller and a few boulders even larger. Most … Continue reading
Filed under Caboose Project and Other Trains
Making a Rock Garden
My daughter Jessica and I took a break from our professional and academic responsibilities to make her a new rock garden yesterday. When we travel, she and I interview rocks large and small which might want to come home with … Continue reading
Filed under Home & Family
Driving, Rafting, Hiking, Spelunking, and Trains
Our family took a short vacation together this week – a road trip from San Jose to northern California. Jessica and Matthew and Paul and John and I stayed for two nights at the Railroad Park Resort in Dunsmuir. John … Continue reading
Filed under Home & Family, News & Reviews, Politics
Caboose and Cactus Arroyo
My office replaced a swimming pool. WP668 is the 100-year-old railroad caboose in San Jose, California (“the Capital of the Silicon Valley“) where I work for Mentoring Standard. Above is WP668 in our backyard now, and below is what the same space … Continue reading
Filed under Home & Family, Mentoring Standard
Scary Crazies
Twice this week, I have been threatened by scary crazy guys. On 13 July, when John Plocher and I were driving home, we witnessed a bike rider threatening a woman and child on the street with a utility knife. Here is … Continue reading
Filed under Home & Family, News & Reviews
Water Conservation Landscape Program – Santa Clara Valley
We have been reducing our home water use for many years and have recently been approved to proceed with a landscape redesign as part of the Landscape Rebate Program of the Santa Clara Valley Water District (SCVWD). In April 2015, we started the … Continue reading
Filed under Home & Family, News & Reviews
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