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Friday Fun at the Convention – With a Capitol C
Saturday, July 17th, 2010
I was up early the morning of Friday, June 18, 2010 – with enough time to play around on the computer and make it to breakfast in the hotel lobby in the Cyprus Grille Restaurant with Bob, David, and the Wileys for a delightful breakfast buffet. The waitress was a little dimwitted and while Bob was away in the restroom, she asked us if he had enjoyed his meal. I told her that she’d have to ask him when he was done throwing up. Then David, the Jimmys, and I took a walk to the California State Capitol. It was about 10am when we arrived
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Tuesday, July 13th, 2010San Francisco 2010
Sunday, July 11th, 2010
I skipped the continental breakfast at our comfortable Super 8 motel in Monterey on the morning of Monday, June 14, 2010 – opting instead to chat online with Erin for a bit while Bob gathered his morsels. We didn’t have to get up too terribly early that day as the cemetery in town that we were going to visit didn’t open until 8:30am. It was the Cementerio El Encinal (or Cemetery of Many Oaks). We weren’t visiting any graves here. We were dropping off. Not a body, but a marker. Bob had spearheaded some fund raising to put a stone on the unmarked grave of Viola Richard. Read the rest of this entry »