Hope everybody had a good weekend. Mine was pretty good.

On Saturday my side of the family celebrated the Chinese Mid-Autumn Festival, aka Moon Festival. It's an ancient harvest festival but since the Chinese calendar is lunar it's usually timed to the full moon closest to Autumn Equinox.  Like most holidays it's basically dinner with family, ( Read more... )

Hope you all had a good weekend.  Mine was certainly interesting.  On Saturday we had tickets to see a new musical called Emma (as in the Jane Austen novel) in the afternoon at Mountain View's Center for the Performing Arts.  The musical was cute and funny, and I'd highly recommend it to anybody in the area.

The other major event was a power outage ( Read more... )