Do we have all hubcaps?
“I need to ship a box. Can we stop by the post office on our way to the soccer game?“, I said. Allison said yes. On our way to the post office, as she was turning on to Walnut Street, she heard something behind the car. She said she may …
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Increasing waste capacity
Allison was brushing her hair in the bathroom. Behind her there were two garbage cans. We only need one… Why were there two? When we were taking out the garbage, she took the garbage can from her office, emptied it in the garage, and put it back in the bathroom, …
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Picture? Sure…
I came out of one of the presentations at the Napa conference and found Allison working at the outside area by the pool. ‘Can I take a picture of you?’, I asked. ‘No’, she said, predictably. Then she smirked, looked at me, and to my surprise, said, ‘actually, yes, you …
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Fit to judge?
Last night I was a judge in the semi-final rounds of the BASES social entrepreneurship competition. I left chatting with the two other judges. The three of us were already outside the building, walking toward the parking garage, when I stopped and said: oops… I left my bag in the …
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Disheveled
It’s not just the husband, It’s the household. One of Allison’s first grade students looked at her this morning and said “y por qué saliste tan despeinada?” (translation: “and why did you leave your home this morning so disheveled?”)
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Amazon returns
Today the ‘1’ key in the keyboard I recently bought on Amazon stopped working. I can’t really work with an unreliable ‘1’ key. So I set to return it for a replacement. I did what I needed to do on Amazon, printed the forms, found the original box and another …
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The Keys Dance at the Consulate
Today as we were leaving the Brazilian Consulate in San Francisco, where we went to get our visas for the summer, I asked Allison “where are my keys?”. She smiled, thinking I was kidding. But I wasn’t. I looked in the bathroom at the consulate, on the seats where we …
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Extra fiber
Saw this across my facebook feed today from my friend Keith Pund:“Ate half of my sandwich before I realized the paper was still on the cheese. #extrafiber” Awesome!
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I spotted one
Today, while driving to the post office, as I was going down the hill on Sycamore, there was a minivan driving up it, toward me, on my side of the road, veering like there was chaos in the car and with the driver-side door open! I kid you not. I …
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Escalating sudden movements
Done with lunch, I grabbed the dish with one hand and my lemonade glass with the other, and then I realized I had to turn off 60 Minutes, so I grabbed the remote control with my lemonade hand and the remote control slipped my hand, after which I went after …
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