Thoughts of a Middle Aged Man

If you follow me on Twitter, you know I went to the Bruce Springsteen concert in Anaheim on Monday. First a little background. I am not a big concert goer. Let me count the concerts that I have been to:

Van Halen (just before they got big)
Linda Ronstadt (Smokey Robinson made an appearance)
Dan [...]

We made another trip up north to pick up my wine shipment from Tablas Creek this last weekend. We left Friday evening and stopping for a quick meal in Camarillo, we made it to San Luis Obispo relatively early. We have some generous friends who lent us their condo that they bought in [...]

We held our second annual St. Patty’s day party on Saturday. The first annual consisted of a total of 6 people and a six pack of Guinness. The party expanded this year to a total of 14, so the third annual could be a whopping 28. This year extravaganza included traditional Irish [...]

Annette picked up a video camera this weekend, and I made a little cooking video based on the Spinach Ruben Sandwich that we had for dinner tonight. We are new at this and I hope we get better on upcoming videos. Enjoy

Thanks to my Uncle who started posting old slides on his Flickr site, I found the picture that tells me that I was a serious young boy probably contemplating my first blog entry, forty eight years prior to the creation of my blog. Hopefully it will inspire me to post to the blog more [...]

Four the last three years we have been making a pilgrimage to San Francisco this time of year. With the help of friends, we volunteer at the Zinfandel Advocates and Producers (ZAP) annual festival and sell wine and wine related knick knacks to over 15,000 zinfandel fans who taste the wine from nearly 400 different [...]

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 [...]

We spent two weeks in New Zealand visiting my daughter, visiting some friends and taking the time to explore the South Island. First of all, it was wonderful to see my daughter who has been in New Zealand for 4 months and is planning to stay there for many more. This is [...]

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 [...]

My daughter lives here now. Our adopted “son” is already there and owns a house. His wife and their two dogs left our house last night to go here. Annette Will and I are heading there before Christmas, so I thought I would play a commercial for the location.