My personal Olympics

We don’t have an extravagant, multimedia opening event planned, but the Gulker Olympics continue. In today’s event, the 2-mile stop sign dash, we achieved a new personal best at 1 hour, 5 minutes, shaving 5 minutes off the old record. This was the first time I did the whole distance without a cane, and [...]

Sunday evening in Berkeley

Daughter-in-law Julie Getze and I attended the James Taylor concert at the Greek Theater at UC Berkeley last night, the tickets being a joint birthday gift to us both from spouse and stepson. Julie hadn’t been born when Taylor’s ‘Fire and Rain’ and ‘Sweet Baby James’ were hits on those groovy ‘underground’ FM stations in [...]

A ‘dash’ through Baylands

None of our usual Baylands companions, neither cormorant nor egret nor blue heron were around today, so I had to make do with this snap of the ‘pole forest’ and a couple of joggers.
I did manage two new personal bests: I walked the 1.8 mile loop in an hour and 10 minutes (10 minutes faster [...]

15 minutes of Silicon Valley fame for the ‘Influential Blogger’

We were sitting at lunch at the AlwaysOn Summit yesterday, talking to IBM Capital’s Drew Clark, when Alexandra Johnson, a partner at Draper Fisher Jurvetson sat down next to us. I’m running a digital voice recorder, capturing Drew’s ideas, so it looks like he and I are in some sort of heavy discussion.
Most of the [...]

The good and bad about transparency

We recently wrote about our latest health news, which prompted a minor flood of concerned email from friends and colleagues, though I wasn’t quite sure why. One comment was that it ‘didn’t sound like Chris.’
I’ll repeat that the news was very good for a person with glioma. The tumor is stable, indeed a faint shadow [...]

New ‘world land speed record’

Thanks to pacing this morning by sweet spouse Linda who patiently (!) walked the 2 miles with me, I did the ‘stop sign’ circuit in one hour and ten minutes, shaving 7 minutes off my previous personal best. Even better, I walked the first 1.5 miles (also a new personal best) without the cane…

Gold and green, up and down

Linda and I jogged/walked our much loved trails in the Arastradero Preserve today, and I took the opportunity as I doddered along the path to try to peel back the layers of gloom that have descended upon me on this sunny, pleasant weekend.
And the day was indeed very pleasant: summer is here, and the oak [...]

New mascot

So, we decided that Pixar’s Wall-E was our new mascot. Figuring that Wall-E and his maker, Buy’nLarge, Inc. would be online and receptive to orders, we quickly negotiated for our very own Wall-E, who is now happily roaming the house, looking for junk to pick up.
I really like Wall-E’s work ethic: whatever happens (which, in [...]

This has been a wonderful 4th of July. It started Thursday afternoon with a movie-and-dinner date with spouse Linda. We saw Wall-E: the first 45 minutes may be as good movie-making as I’ve seen, and the rest of the film isn’t bad, either. I’ve decided Wall-E, who repairs himself when need be, is my new [...]

Hanging with the Baylands set

Linda and I did our respective Baylands loops this Fourth of July morning, sharing the space with the usual crew of egrets, cormorants and geese, none of whom were showing much in the way of patriotic colors. I walked 1.8 miles in an hour and 20 minutes, a considerable improvement on my last Baylands outing [...]

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