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Flamingo Las Vegas Gallery

We’ve been stuck at the Flamingo Hotel in Las Vegas for the past few days because Himself had to go to a conference here. I dislike Las Vegas. It’s full of drunken people with bad taste who are...

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It’s a Surprise!

I’ve been working pretty much non-stop (at least when not having migraines), so haven’t had time to post much to the blog. I did take a break yesterday, however, and went to a baby shower. The...

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Fog in McInnis Park

I arrived early for the BACN meeting on March 27th and found McInnis Park wreathed in fog. Click to view slideshow. The post Fog in McInnis Park appeared first on Sallie's Personal Pages.

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A Walk through the Neighborhood

The new Grocery Outlet in Oakley is open. It’s great advantage (other than occasional really good bargains) is that it’s actually within walking distance. Not as close as El Cerrito Natural was when I...

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This isn’t about Millennials vs. Baby Boomers. It’s about youth vs. maturity.

I’m reading Millennials and Management by Lee Caraher after hearing her speak at BACN on Friday. The book analyzes various stereotypes about Millennials and assesses their basis in reality, as well as...

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Grass Fire on Meadow Wood Lane

I was minding my own business, freeing up a little space on my SSD while waiting for a Skype conference to start, when I heard a loud pop. It sounded like it was coming from my back yard, or maybe from...

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The craziest thing about the Peppermill Resort in Reno

Mind you, all large resort hotels with casinos have a lot of craziness in them. But apart from the long walks across skyways and up and down lifts in order to get from the parking lot to the room to...

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Yosemite 2015 Gallery

Here are the photos I took during my recent trip to Yosemite with my mother. I was driving most of the time, so she took twice as many pictures as I did. There’s a ton of other stuff I want to post,...

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Playing Tourist in Old Sacramento

Despite the fact that we’ve pretty well worn a groove in the road to Sacramento since my husband’s first foray into vaping advocacy in spring 2014, there’s never been time to explore the city. I’d had...

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2015 Year in Review, a.k.a. Get a Life, Woman!

I’m writing this in place of the Christmas letter that I didn’t send because I was too busy working. I landed an urgent job in mid December and dove into it with both feet, which is how I usually...

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Dream Boards

Every year Lyn Diana has a “dream board” party on the third Sunday in December. I’ve been going since my then-housemate Eve introduced me to Lyn sometime early in the 2000s, and I always enjoy it. I’ve...

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Springtime Comes to East County

Thanks to the rains we had this winter, this spring is very green. These photos were taken at the beginning and the end of March, mostly in Oakley but also out along the Byron Highway. The post...

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April in Malibu Canyon

I spent the weekend of April 7-9 at a retreat held at the lovely Serra Retreat Center in Malibu. Malibu Canyon is lovely at any time of year, but especially so in a green and blooming spring like this...

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Downtown Martinez Gallery

Himself had a county supervisors’ committee meeting to attend on Monday, and while he was locked into a windowless room (okay, I wasn’t there, so I don’t know whether it was actually windowless, but...

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Martinez Regional Shoreline

The Martinez Regional Shoreline park is much more extensive than the Big Break Shoreline park near my house, but like the Big Break park, it’s a marshy wetland, rather than a beach. The acres of waving...

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The #AdultsLikeFlavors Hornblower Cruise

There’s been a rash of proposed flavor bans in the Bay Area, which inspired my husband, founder of Not Blowing Smoke, to launch the Adults Like Flavors website. In order to raise awareness and motivate...

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A Short Walk in Albany

I arrived early for my hair appointment yesterday, so I decided to take a walk around the block instead of just standing on the steps at Ashira Salon. It was a lovely day, sunny but not too hot....

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Podcasting with Cats

Where Kiki is Velcro Kitty because of her habit of sticking herself to my shoulders, her sister Bece is ADD Kitty because she can never get enough attention. Whenever I’m on a video call or recording a...

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Good Neighbors Make Good Fences

We had a ferocious wind storm here on Saturday, and it didn’t really surprise me when the back fence came down. It had started listing rather alarmingly after the previous storm, and it had already...

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There Goes the Neighborhood

I rang in the New Year with a pulverizing migraine/sinus headache, so on the evening of December 31, 2017, I was in bed with a hot pack rather than out celebrating. By the evening of January 1, 2018, I...

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