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San Jose & Palo Alto
San Jose has an attraction called the Winchester Mystery House. It is a house of obsession—or perhaps delusion—that the widow of the manufacturer of Winchester rifles kept building…
Halfmoon Bay & Stanford
I left the Palace Hotel at 10 a.m. I stopped at the Longs Drug behind Visa International in Foster City and used my Citibank cash card to buy pain relievers (Naproxen Sodium/200 ca…
Fishermen’s Grotto #9
Fishermen’s Grotto #9 is an upscale seafood restaurant founded in 1935. The last time I came, I was seated on floor 1, but today I had a spacious, relaxing seat on floor 2. A…
Rabbit Ridge + Balistreri
I took a quick inventory of the wine at home. Here are 2 selections from it. The first is a Grand Reserve from Rabbit Ridge Winery. I bought it at the Healdsburg tasting room, perh…
Big Incident! Poison in the Water?!
According to “Life of a Japanese Expat Wife in Canada”, a toxic substance seems to have entered the water supply in Stratford, Ontario. For the time being, people are apparently no…
Bloody Valentine’s Day
At noon local time on Valentine’s Day (February 14), a massive bombing, believed to have involved a car bomb, struck central Beirut, the capital of Lebanon. At least 13 peopl…
Footage of the Indian Ocean Tsunami
Here are some links to footage of the Indian Ocean tsunami. Patong Beach Phuket (Hotel) Phuket (Beach) Sri Lanka In the Indian Ocean tsunami, the families of 2 people close to me e…
From the Lounge at SFO
I left Japan on Tuesday evening and am now in San Francisco. I came to negotiate with a company in Mountain View, but over 72 hours I slept only about 3 hours, so I naturally began…