Category: Daft Musings

During my trip to Germany, I noticed something which really should have been obvious to me years ago. Europeans who come and live in America for a while become rather perky, a quality that sets them off from their native countrymen. It’s not that they stop being German or Dutch or English or French, but…

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…

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…

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…

Following the lead of hipper, younger folk, a few years ago Peter and I canceled our land line service and now just use our cell phones. However, as we found out when I went to Germany, our cell phones can’t make international calls. But I emailed Peter to check out Skype, which I’d heard about,…

Peter left yesterday to go on a business trip to Germany. This morning he called me from Frankfurt. After I got over my delight that the German cell phone I’d bought and loaded up with euro credits was still working, I found out, that, like everyone who’s flown British Airways this year, he had been…

A few years ago, two houses on my street sold for prices that astounded even those of us who are used to skyrocketing California real estate prices. But then, both houses had been extensively remodelled and staged. What was unusual was the people who bought the homes. I wouldn’t have thought a guy who washed…

For a variety of good reasons, Peter moved his office from its Santa Clara location to a new location downtown, and this is our moving month. I think all of us are excited about the new offices, which are directly across (and with windows looking onto) San Jose’s beautiful historic cathedral, kitty corner from the…

The other day, Peter was trying to fix a date on when he became addicted to Starbucks, in that a tough day doesn’t begin properly without a caffeinated something in a “venti” tub. He thought it started during the short-lived period he was taking Neil to his middle school math classes but I pointed out…

We have been travelling and adventuring so much lately, that we completely forgot the date for Neil’s graduation from Webelos. Luckily for us, after Peter had had a hard day at work and just after we’d finished a late dinner, one of the scout leaders called us, and let us know the ceremony had already…