I slept through another Caturday!


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Calmly facing a new Caturday

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(reprinted from Up Front, the newsletter of the East Bay Frontrunners and Walkers ( Read more... )

Back in 1987, I made a bicycle trip across northern Italy and into Yugoslavia. At a village called Montagnola, I met an Englishman and his wife ("Mike" and "Mel") who were bicycling from London to Peking. They were writing short articles for a magazine in the UK about their trip, in a way that would have been done by blog nowadays ( Read more... )

I decided to change my insurance strategy to high-deductible and a Health Savings Account. So now, wherever I go, the doc or pharmacist says, "it says high-deductible ..." with a slight look of horror on their faces ( Read more... )

Thanks to everyone who offered wired money etc. to help my cash crisis. X-Dad-In-Law sorted it out in a wink of an eye. So I won't be needing any emergency funds. But it is great to know one has friends one can count on in times like that!

The Netherlands isn't big on credit cards, and even less on American credit cards where you swipe your card somewhere and then sign a piece of paper. So I usually use a lot of cash when I come here ( Read more... )

This afternoon, I stood in my apartment, looking for signs of the production of the movie that was shot there. The scene in particular that I was thinking of was one where the protagonist in the film is standing in his apartment - which was filmed in my apartment - looking for signs of a movie that was shot there (here ( Read more... )