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Welp! Once again, cops get acquitted of murdering an unarmed man.

Welcome to America!

Why not make a token attempt to pretent to appear to have pursued justice with some kind of minor conviction and suspended sentences? 

What? And miss the opportunity to laugh in the face of justice? Never!

i'm answering here on your wiki....He's going to be ok with pink?

 

I'm really playing a trick on him. You know how your significant others (men usually does it more than women) wants something really bad, but they feel kind of bad about it because their spending a lot of money on it. So, they try to make you feel like it's as much yours as it is theirs. This is a situation like that. He wants a new motorcycle. So he said I could choose it. Every time I would choose one either it was too much or something. Then I chose one with the right price and would be ego boosting as well...it was a BMW bike. He liked it and agreed with the choice...but the thing is I need something that has a back rest. The BMW won't look good with a back rest so he told me to keep looking. I told him no matter what his choice as long as it had a backrest would be fine with me. He said no I want you to choose. I asked why...he said because it's your chariot. So.....if it's my chariot then pink should be ok. Right? lol! Honestly, I really don't care which bike he gets as long as it has a backrest. I am going to play this game for about a week or so. I  sent him a letter today with the punch line. He'll know either when we talk again or when he gets the letter whichever comes first. lol! Men! My chariot.

Ahhh...the relationship dance!

 

Are you always the passenger or do you aspire to having your own bike?

i am always the passenger. i don't think i want a bike of my own. i'm not even sure i like riding. i just like being with him.

I know exactly what you mean.

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Sacre Bleu! I missed your birthday!

 

Sorry I missed it.

 

Thank you, Myclette!

 

I spent the day coming down with the flu and have been mostly sleeping since.  What a great start to my year!!

Aww, that just means you won't get sick anymore this year.

Ah, leave it to you to find the silver lining - thank you, I needed that.

Hi Perrye,
I didn't want to post this on your blog about 4 things because there are some kind of private things that you can delete, if you want. Firstly, nice post. Then I wanted to ask if you had gone to CCAC for architecture? My oldest son went there for ceramics and painting. He's a junior architect, because he has been doing autoCAD for so many years. (since he was 17, now 35) Also, where did you live in Oakland and Berkeley? My spouse's parents (and he) lived at Daisy & Davenport for 65 years. Of course, he only lived there til he went to college. That's right off the freeway over by High Street. His mother worked at Mills'. His brother lives in Berkeley with his wife, right above the rose gardens. His sister lives in Crocker Highlands? Right below Piedmont on Mandana.

I worked in a library also - doing pre-cataloging at Temple University In Philadelphia. I worked there during the day and got free tuition at night for several years.

Thanks for sharing. After my last experience with being open on here, I am much more cautious now, sorry. Also, I think I have seen your family in the newspapers???? They look AWFULLY familiar! What a fantastic experience for you. You're a great guy, truly. And very humble.

I went to SFIA, a small crazy experiment and dream of an architect named Fred.  He is actually well connected and a fairly prolific writer on architecture -we had great speakers and field trips and didn't have to slog thru the stuff that makes other schools call it "architorture".  I am too old and too non-conformist for conventional college any more so loved being there. I was working two jobs and going to school in 2001 and finally ran out of stamina or something.  I need a semester or two to finish, but there is a good chance I won't.  What I found out along the way, is that I am not really interested in new buildings so dragged myself to Oregon and SoCal for Historic Preservation training.  I'm also too old and too non-conformist to spend years in foot-in-the-door jobs (I worked for a SF interiors firm for a sort time - soul-killing).   I have been thinking about going to CCA... for jewelry, or Revere or who knows.

 

I lived all over Berkeley, but only in one house for a short time in Oakland.  It was near CCA(back then)C, just off broadway.  My favorite Berkeley residence was in that little complex on Spruce off Hearst - something village.

 

That's the DeBolt family, famous for raising at least 20 children a various ethnicities and many with serious handicaps.  5 were hers, 1 his, and the rest adopted.  They now have 29 grandchildren.

 

Just an ordinary life.

 

Perrye's not a guy....

Ha...love that Perrye's not a guy! Well, you are one terrific woman then! And I am too old and too non-conformist for most anything.

Yes, I knew I had seen the DeBolt's. But I missed what you had written underneath - they are not your family. Yes, very very cool family. Back in my younger days, I always wanted a Pearl Buck family. Lots of different colors, lots of different kinds. The DeBolt's have done it all, and now 29 grandchildren.

I don't know about SFIA but it sounds like it was the right fit for you. My son had a full scholarship to CCAC, but it was only for 2 years and then that dried up - like they kind of pulled us in and we couldn't afford to send him there for the other two years, so he came back up here and went to Sonoma State University, where my husband worked for 30 years. He actually liked it. And yeah, my son doesn't really like architecture either. He mostly does remodels for hospitals and nursing homes. It's his bread and butter, and graphics are his love, as well as alternative music.

I think I know which fantastical little village you are talking about in Berkeley. We almost had to move from here temporarily, if my spouse was going to work at one of the CSUs south of there. We thought about keeping our house here and renting a place in that village. Is it the one that looks kind of European, with curvey interiors and doors and things? I loved the look of it.

BTW, you would most likely enjoy our old house. It's 115 years old and has a water tower. We've been renovating/rebuilding it for ages, and finally really have been taking it apart. We love old things and weird buildings. I'd actually almost enjoy living in a yurt part of the time.

Thanks for sharing. Have a good rainy day. I've got my winter blahs. I usually get SADS around now, with all the cold and rain, especially after we had that gorgeous 78 degree weather.

Normandy Village!  Yes that's exactly the place.  The insides are as wonderful as the exterior.

 

I am sure I would love your house.

 

There are lamps that provide an approximation of sunlight for people with SAD.  It has taken me a million years to get used to northern california weather, but I am experiencing the cabin fever aspect of it for the first time this year. 

 

I just had a learn-something-everyday-especially-from-mistakes experience.  I decided to stop fiddling with the pendant I've been working on and fire it.  Since it is raining, I didn't want to use the firing thingy with the propane tank outside or go looking for (wet) bricks in the rain, so I put the piece on an unglazed under-the-flowerpot dish, on top of a silicon pad on top of an inverted glass pie pan and fired it with a mini-torch for about a dozen minutes on the desktop.  The piece is still too hot to handle, but looks ok, but the silicon pad melted under the terra cotta dish.  Wonder what breathing those fumes will do to me?  And where can I find another silicon pad thing to sneak back into the kitchen cabinet...?  Ah well.  Into the tumbler for an hour and we shall see what emerges.

Yes, Normandy Village. I would have loved to live there for a while. I do like Berkeley, though I know it's changed so much. We come down there and go to Om Salvage and that other one. Found a fantastic leaded glass window (vintage) that we used between our kitchen and laundry room, in our remuddle.

My younger son, btw, is a blacksmith - or that's one of his hats. I did pottery for 10 years and lots of raku, so I'm sure that kind of firing is similar to what you usually do when you are not using up silicon pads ;~) I hope your housemates weren't too terribly attached to it.

Yes, I know about full-spectrum lights. Last year I didn't have any problems, but then it didn't rain that much either. I thought I was going to be OK this year, and then boom, after that nice spell and then this...also, my husband went back to work full time last week and this week, and I think I missed him. I've gotten used to having him around the house most of the time. They begged him to go back 2 days a week, last September. Then a couple of weeks ago, someone was fired and no one knew how to do the work. So he was doing corrections of things that were desperately needed. Oh well, it's paying for the bathroom, and our younger son is doing the excavation of that, so it's all in a big circle I guess. Well, off to do some reading. Hope your jewelry piece came out looking good.

I finally found an affordable, only slightly used, digital Paragon that runs on house current.  I am very happy.

A paragon that runs on house current?  Wow, cool.  What happened with the job at the Grove? 

It's little. The interior chamber is probably only 8 or 9 inches on side - right for jewelry.

The Grove is too far a commute for practical purposes.  Now that I have put a nice blue rinse on my hair to not-exactly cover the gray, I have a job interview with a non-profit in the City.   Wonder if they'll notice.

It's most likely what they call a "test kiln" - small and very good for jewelry.  A test kiln is used for testing glazes, so you only put little pieces of clay into them. 

 

Blue?  Ha ha...mine is multi-colored, depending on how I feel that particular season.  Sometimes I let the gray come through and then it will have blond streaks with gray.  Other times I put a light brown/ash blond colorant on it, but it is usually temporary.  I've never done blue or red or anything like that - YET!!!! 

Yeah, I thought the Grove was way too far.  It's even far for us, from here, though lots of young folks have done it, but not with gas being $4.00 per gallon now.  Which non-profit?  I worked for non-profits most of my life.  I was with AFSC in the City when I lived in Fairfax.  Did I ever tell you I used to commute from there with Peg Phillips, of Northern Exposure, back in the days when she was this wonderful earthy Quake from Fairfax, living with her son and mother?  I loved Peg.  (She was Ruthann on NE)

Paragon and Evenheat and probably other companies now make PMC-specific kilns - probably just an adaptation of their test kilns.  It is great - you put your work in, press the buttons for whatever pre-programmed temp and time you want et voila! -theoretically -my first kiln was a brand new lemon that, the first time I used it,  went out of program when it should have started cooling down, couldn't be shut off, and reduced my work to a puddle.

It's the Communications Leadership Institute, which provides non-profits with training and tools to improve their internal and external communications.  I never heard of them til my agency dredged them up for me.

I have always like the public transportation commute from Marin to SF - time to read or nap or otherwise shift gears between home and other concerns.

I think I have seen one NE episode ever.....

Wow on the kiln.  By the time I was not working in ceramics anymore, things had begun changing drastically, with all those computerized thingies to control temp, etc. 

 

I THINK I have heard of that Communications Leadership Inst.  I believe there might be one up here near S.R.????  I might even have a friend (can't remember who) who works there.  That just seems familiar to me. 

 

And yes, public transportation is terrific.  I grew up with it on the east coast and wish we had better transportation out here.  Especially now that gasoline is getting so expensive.  When my spouse retires for good, probably this summer, we are going to walk more frequently, as we are inside town and could conceivably walk to stores, etc., with a shopping cart of some kind. 

I start tomorrow, temp-to-perm (I will continue to look since the salary is lower than what I want), with a day-long strategic planning meeting that includes funders and board members.  It will be nice to have a paycheck again.  Next stom - my own apartment or something.

Break a leg, Perrye.  Hope it really goes well.  Having your own place is a great goal.  We feel so blessed.  You'll have to get up here sometime...

Anyway, best of luck tomorrow.

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