What did you do on Saturday night? We had a “toilet malfunction” and a four-room flood, followed by a crew of two guys moving our furniture, ripping out our carpet, and installing huge blow dryers.
The climax of the adventure was at 1 AM …
Shaking the Family Tree
Before I started writing my weekly newspaper column, researching our family tree was my hobby. It was a hobby I set aside, however, when I started my website in 1996. So the genealogical inquiry I got this week came as quite a surprise. It seems that a small, dedicated group of hobby genealogists has traced… [Continue]
She’d Never Seen a Record Player
My daughter is studying the American Revolution in her fifth grade class, and learned some colonial-era folk dances from a woman who visited their classroom. To accompany the dancing, the visiting instructor brought a record player. It was the first record player my daughter had ever seen! Which started me thinking about the fold-up portable… [Continue]
Snow Day? Traffic Day!
Yesterday was a very bizarre day here in San Diego. In the wee hours of the morning a crane fell over at the intersection of two major freeways, and paralyzed our city for an entire day. Forget terrorism preparedness. What about crane preparedness? My daughter’s school was in chaos. When teachers called in to say… [Continue]