While in California for Kerry’s graduation (see prior blog post), a couple of friends from Oregon came down to visit. Together, we went to two museums, along with a tour of the Santa Cruz wineries. The first museum we visited was the Computer History Museum in Mountain View (Wikipedia and Yelp both have more info). […]
School’s Out!
Kerry Jones, our favorite niece (OK, our only niece, but still our favorite!) graduated high school today. After this week, she is officially a college student, attending University of California at Santa Barbara. She will be majoring in chemistry in the College of Creative Studies. With fewer than 350 students, this is a very elite […]
Applesauce
Gloria Uyaguari, Evelyn’s favorite Spanish teacher, requires her students to write a diary in Spanish. Evelyn takes private Spanish lessons twice a week at Gloria’s home. Here’s a recent page from Evelyn’s Spanish diary: 29 de Marzo, el sábado Gloria y Adrian nos invitaron a su casa de campo cerca de San Bartolomé a recoger […]
Frient
It is sometimes frustrating when I speak “perfect Spanish” and the other person looks at me like I’ve grown an extra head. I know I said it right… didn’t I? Well, today I had a little lesson on what it probably sounds like to the native speaker I am trying to communicate with. During parts […]
Cooking Shrimp (class)
I’ve commented several times about how many gourmet restaurants exist within a couple blocks of our condo. Today a new variation appeared — a gourmet cooking school! And yes, it is two blocks from our condo. Today was La Warmi’s first such class, but they promise to soon start doing such a class every day, […]
Jupiter!
We have tried to get into the local planetarium several times, but were always turned away because it was either closed or the tickets were sold out. We decided to try again today. We walked to the planetarium (it is only a 10 minute walk from our condo), and had lunch at one of our […]
Mas Agua, Poco Color
[Note: This post by Evelyn] I had my last watercolor lesson with Alberto Soriano, a world class Ecuadorian painter, today. It was an honor and privilege for me to learn from such a talented artist, and be so welcomed into his world. Alberto is quite passionate, warm, with a positive energy, that is absolutely inspiring. […]
[Computer] How and Why to Backup Your Computers
Please believe me — this is one message you want to pay attention to. It may very well save your sanity. 🙂 First off, why worry about backups at all? 1) Your computer disk WILL fail at some point. If you have not had a computer disk failure before now, you are very lucky, but […]
Moving Adobe Lightroom Images Between Two Computers
Several people have asked me to explain how to move photos from one computer to another when using Lightroom. The process is really quite simple, but there are a few caveats that do need to be understood. First though, why would you want to do this? Well, let me explain my personal travel workflow. When […]
