Today I had a few errands to run, so I dared burn some gasoline to shop both at a new Target store on Curtner and another new store, a Beverages and More which opened up in the former Tower Records store on Santa Teresa Boulevard. The Target store happened to be across the street from…
Escape from, er, Ray
We wanted to make sure we waited until we got our deposit back, but besides the benefits of having a nice office downtown, there was another angle to why we moved from our offices in Santa Clara. It was really an escape from a dark being whom I can’t name because it seems most of…
Enjoying Our Downtown
Two factors have put downtown San Jose high on our favored fun destination list this summer. Peter has an office right in the center of it, so we can drop in any time and even leave a few things behind. And we can walk to our light rail station and have fun taking a train…
Movie Reviews: Kung Fu Panda and Get Smart
It had been a long time since I’d gone to see a movie in a movie theatre, so long that the Camera Cinemas discount card (10 movies for $50) I still had had been phased out for a new one (10 movies for $60). But this month, I got back into the habit of seeing…
Earthquake Weather
Last Saturday, we had decidedly weird weather. Although it was supposed to be horrifically hot, sudden rain showers broke out twice, and some of the guests at the party we were at reported seeing lightning strikes without thunder. Since then, we’ve had so many wilderness fires in Northern California that every day has been hazy,…
How I (Almost) Spent Only $40 on Gas This Month
This month, I continued my goal to spend only $100 on gasoline for the entire month. I’d barely managed in in May, and this month I didn’t have to drop off and pick up a husband at the San Francisco airport. On the other hand, gas prices jumped (roughly averaged) from about $3.90/gallon in May…
Serving Demeter
My Greek neighbor Marcella is a veritable goddess of the garden. Anything she plants takes root and thrives, even in placements my gardening guides and nursery advisors admonish against. In her garden, tomatoes grow in the shade, flowers bloom while all crowded into a corner together, and her trees continue to regrow and fruit no…
Kelly’s Future Car
I don’t like to be a time hog when I take time off for myself, so after already indulging myself in an afternoon of magazine reading, I didn’t think I had time to check out the Zero 1 art festival. But as I was going past the art cars lined up along Plaza de Cesar…
San Jose’s Downtown Library: Great Art and Bad Bums
There’s a lot to be said about San Jose’s relatively new library downtown, but I’ll focus this on one of the best, and the very worst. Just as context, the 8-story library located on the border between downtown San Jose and San Jose State, is a collaboration that combines both a city library and a…
The High Gas Price Exercise Plan
I was worried about creeping weight gain earlier this year, but in the past few weeks, I’ve lost all my excess weight, toned up, and been able to eat all the ice cream I wanted without repercussion: all because I’m so cheap I refuse to pay the going rate for gasoline. Now instead of driving…