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Yesterday I watched Beech's first basketball game. It seems absurd to me that 5-year olds would play organized basketball, but the kids were all very enthusiastic about it. Some players on each team were occasionally even able to shoot the ball into the basket, but not Beech, who could not even throw the ball high enough to reach the basket, which was at normal height. After the game we took Beech and one of his teammates to a hamburger place for dinner with Annie, Vanessa, and me.

In the evening I met Chris Coleman and his wife Marilyn at the train station. They had just returned from a day long tour of Yosemite. They are spending a couple of days with me before returning to Monterey where the are spending a couple of months. We walked this morning to join Helen and Jim for coffee at Starbucks They have now walked to Stanford Plaza which gives me time to send this message.