Message 648

Yesterday I went to Justine Solomon's wedding in Los Altos, and then to the reception and dinner at the Lucy Stern Center in Palo Alto. There must have been a hundred or more people there, including all of the people who work with Justine at Cafe Barone. I sat at the table with Ron and Marci Ariagno and Dennis and Therese Rohan, plus three others. It was a very nice wedding and reception. Eddie's Parkinson's symptoms have continued to get worse, so he has a full-time care-taker with him all the time now, but he was able to manage a speech as father of the bride at the dinner. I got home in time to watch the third period of the Sharks game. They were behind Columbus 0-1, but Dany Heatly and Joe Pavelski both scored in the third period to finally win the game 2-1. I then read some more of The Economist, but I was a little tired and there is no Charlie Rose on Saturday, so I went to bed around midnight.

Message 647

Last night after the Friday PBS shows were over I read over half of The Economist. I am going now to Safeway for my weekly shopping. No Starbucks today.

Message 646

Last night I watched a DVD of the movie In the Cut. It was directed by Jane Campion, who also directed The Piano. It starred Meg Ryan in a very different type of role from her usual, and it featured several other well known stars. It was a very raw and gritty movie about people with troubled lives. I give it four stars because it was so well done, but I do not like giving such a high rating to a movie that is so difficult to watch. When I went to bed after Charlie Rose, who had a very good interview with Elizabeth Warren, who is very good, I realized that I had forgotten to watch the Sharks game, but I went to their web site and found that they came from behind in the third period to beat Montreal 3-2.

Message 645

I am late getting back from having breakfast at Heidi's Pies because I stayed to pick Beech up at school so Vanessa could keep an appointment to have her hair done. Beech is here with me now waiting for her to pick him up. Rob Ballard left early this morning before I got up so he could depose the plastic surgeon who is key to his case defending the nine year-old girl whose ear was bitten off by a horse. Last night I watched a DVD of the movie The Dark Knight. Even though it had a good cast, I just do not like movies based on comic books. I give it 2.4 stars. I am now washing the guest room sheets so they will be clean when Liz and her family arrive next week.

Message 644

Yesterday after breakfast at El Cerrito I helped Rob with some work he had to do at Kinko's and then showed him around Stanford for a while. He had to meet with people in the afternoon and evening, so I did not see him again until the third period of the Sharks game. After giving up four goals in the second period, the Sharks trailed New Jersey 0-4, but in the third period they got their act together and scored three goals, so they lost 3-4, and saved themselves from total disgrace. At noon I picked Beech up at school and took him to lunch, which is our usual Tuesday routine. At midnight I watched Charlie Rose as usual. His show was quite good again as is also usual.

Message 643

Yesterday I had Orlindo's crew in to clean my condo. I walked up to Starbucks and had a coffee while they were here. In the evening I watched 24. I had finished The Economist yesterday, so I read Science until Rob Ballard arrived about 11 PM. You all probably remember him from our reunions. He is Joe Cleaver's sister's son, and his son is named Carson and is in kindergarten. Anyway, I invited him to stay in my guest room while he has some legal business in Redwood City for the next few days. His plane was scheduled to land at 8 PM, but it was a couple of hours late, so he missed watching 24 with me. He was ready for bed shortly after he arrived, so he was asleep while I watched Charlie Rose. We are about to head up to El Cerrito for breakfast.

Message 642

Yesterday I watched the Americans lose to the Canadians in overtime for the Olympic gold medal. I did not really care who won, but the Canadians had the better team, including four of the Sharks best players. The Americans had only one Shark on their team, and I had never heard of the others. Also, the game meant more to Canadians than it did to Americans, so it is just as well that they won. I the evening I went to San Mateo for the usual Sunday family dinner. In the evening I watched 39 Steps on PBS Masterpiece Classics.