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The Civil War comes to Long Beach
We had a great time yesterday at the second annual Long Beach Civil War Reenactment this weekend. It was absolutely fascinating. I’m something of a Civil War buff, but we went with some friends and some kids, and everybody enjoyed it. After the battle, we heard a Lincoln look-alike deliver the Gettysburg Address and the…
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Body check
Chuck and I went in to see our dermatologist for our six month check-ups today. That means full body checks for both of us. As former sun worshippers, we almost always have something that needs to be frozen off or cut out. Today it was my mole – the mole I have ad my entire…
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When the Internet breaks
Our fiber optic modem decided to give up the ghost, pushed up the daisies, kicked the bucket, shuffled off its mortal coil, run down the curtain and joined the bleedin’ choir invisibile (to paraphrase Monty Python)!! We’re not quite sure what caused it, but because it happened right before the Memorial Day holiday, the earliest…
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El Prieto redux
I just finished uploading some awesome new photos taken by our friend Gerry on Saturday at this year’s El Prieto Handicap race. He caught some great action shots of people running, and he was positioned at a point early enough in the race (at the bottom of the El Prieto Trail) that people still look…
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Celebrating
This weekend marked the 16th annual El Prieto Handicap – Chuck’s annual race. It’s a very neat event, held in the San Gabriel Mountains in an area called Oak Grove Park. Two miles of the race is on a single track trail called El Prieto (hence the race name), and every year the direction alternates:…
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Run-around Chuck
Time flies when you’re getting your life back to some semblance of normal. It’s been six weeks (!!) since Chuck’s last chemo treatment and he has actual hair growing (versus chia fuzz) on his head and his beard is also returning. His energy is returning and his taste buds are starting to work. The hardest…
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