Thoughts of a Middle Aged Man

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 [...]

As with our Rose Bowl trip, working for the world’s largest ticketing company gave me access to purchase a pair of tickets at face value to the Super Bowl in Glendale, Arizona. We didn’t find out that would get the tickets until Friday morning. That gave us enough time to cancel a [...]

Last fall, Annette reminded me that she had never seen the Grand Canyon. That put me on a quest and I tried to find some time last fall to sneak off prior to our trip to New Zealand, but our schedule was full. After Christmas, I booked some rooms and planned a weekend. [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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.

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 [...]

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 [...]

I hate cooking in summertime. Summertime calls for cool foods like fruit, cucumbers, melons, mayo and grilled proteins like chicken, burgers and salmon. It also means that slow cooking like roasting or braising is out of the question as it heats up the house, when the house is already to warm. Even [...]