Post archive for ‘Life’
Rose Bowl 2008
I know I promised more New Zealand adventures, but my wife and I took advantage of some company perks and attended the Rose Bowl game in Pasadena. We ended up with two tickets at field level just at the corner of the end zone. We got lucky as USC scored twice at our [...]
Go Speed Racer, Go Speed Racer, Go!
As a part of a corporate event , we went to an indoor race track to step into souped up electric go carts that can get up to 45 mph. The first race was a 12 lap race for pole position with the pole going to [...]
Parent Day
We did our parental duty and visited our son, who is a freshman at St. Mary’s College last Saturday. A quick flight to Oakland and a ride on BART to Walnut Creek where Will met us. We spent most of the day in Walnut Creek, having coffee, lunch and shopping for wardrobe items that [...]
Surviving the Heat
Its been hot here. Brutally hot. Normally, if you are within 15 miles of the coast here in Orange County you can get some warm days, but the nights cool off, so sleeping is bearable. But a few weeks out of the year that big ocean 12 miles away does us no [...]
Helping the kids fly the coop
This has been a hectic week for the Clark household. On Thursday, we move our son out of our house and into the dorms at St. Mary’s college, and then on the following Monday, our daughter leaves for New Zealand to work as a swim instructor, or any other work she can find over [...]
Hotel Clark
The house has been a hotel this summer (not as packed as last summer where international water polo players invaded for the summer). Before and after our family cruise, a lovely family from New Zealand made our home their home away from home while they attended weddings of family members in Southern California and [...]
Two down and none to go
We attended our son’s high school graduation yesterday, leaving my wife and I with no kids in the house (well soon no kids in the house) and two in college. The graduation ceremony for high school has changed in the thirty years since I got my diploma.
Class sizes are bigger (His, 469, mine 250)
Fewer [...]
Hitting to all fields
I would thought I would spend one post to catch up on a lot of past subjects, so here it goes
I ran 9 miles the last two Sunday’s with better times each Sunday. Yesterday I finished in 82 minutes, which is much faster than I planned. I am getting better at pacing myself, [...]
Tim Allen was Right
After all those years laughing at Tim Allen’s power tool jokes, I found out that he wasn’t joking and probably is one of the smartest people on earth. OK, I am exaggerating, but I found the great benefit of power tools this weekend. I borrowed my brothers power miter saw and I bought [...]
