Back to blogging

I realize that it has been a very long time since my last post and I am loosing faithful readers by the day. Tomorrow I should be down to zero so I thought that I would just throw something out there and see what happens. Today I went surfing with a few other guys. The water was cool (about 51F) and the air temp was about the same. This made for a very chilly Sunday. We had a good time and I caught a few waves and had some good pizza to warm us up when we were done.

Brenda’s rents are coming down tomorrow for a week and we are looking forward to seeing them and spending some time with them. We have several things planned but are most excited about going to Yosemite because they have never seen it before and we have not seen it in the winter.

I listen to the liberals on NPR sometimes and today they were extremely dumb. When factories in the US close down due to free trade with other countries the federal gov. often picks up the tab for retraining the workers for new employment. Some people are now loosing their jobs overseas that are in the service industry (eg. people in call centers). They also would like the same benefits as the factory workers (free college and retraining). That main problem I have with this is that factory workers are often less educated than the service job workers. Some cannot even read. They need training, when people in the service industry often have options and skills that they can market. This is just another example of the stupid liberals always looking for someone to help them out because they are too lazy or to ignorant to help themselves out. The best bumper sticker I have seen read “piss off a liberal…work hard and be happy”. Not all liberals are bad just unenlightened.

Merry CHRISTmas to all.


Howard is not impressed with his holiday apparel.

Work Party Fun

Santa Cruz Boat parade.

I know I did not post last week, but who cares….quit complaining…..get a life and go back to work and quit wasting time…. I got other things to do. Last Saturday we went to Santa Cruz to see the lighted boat parade with Brett and Michelle. It was a lot of fun but Brenda was of course being very hyper and an embarrassment to be around (can’t help but love her). We ate at the Crows Nest and had great food and great conversation.

Friday this week we had the Brenda’s work party at the Myers house. They have a great house and Wolfgang always makes us feel at home. Always a good time with all of the teachers and school staff.

Last night we went out to my work Christmas party. It was at Gordon Biersch downtown San Jose with a great atmosphere. I work with great people and it is like one big family with those guys. There was free beer all night and two cocktails per person so by the end of the night it was a bit crazy. My bosses are cool and said a lot of nice things about me to Brenda so lying was also part of the equation. Good times were had by all and I really enjoy working at BBL/Arcadis.


Every body was dressed up so nice. Jason wore his Sharks jersey over his shirt and tie.


"Poppy" is a ladies man, but I let him know this one was taken.
Tyler just had a shot that my boss(on the right) is passing out. Hard work is well rewarded.
Brenda with Tyler and Tracy.


From right to left is Katie, Sharon, and Heather. Katie is my co-workers girlfriend, Sharon the the office administrative assistant, and Heather helps working with the gorundwater. Great people to be around.




Today I was tired after lunch so I laid down about 3pm and fell asleep. Three hours later I was woken up by Brenda and she wanted to go to this Christmas spectacular show thing at a Church nearby. What a great nap. The Christmas show was not the normal Church show because Santa showed up and a lot of the songs were secular. It ended discussing the real meaning of Christmas and was quite the production.