02/06/10 10:22 PM
"That whole Iraq thing? Did not go well."
01/30/10 12:54 PM
I was lucky to get the chance to meet the lovely Anna R-P over breakfast last weekend. Her fiancé was nice enough but he did hover a bit too much.
Let’s all wish them a very happy emailiversary. I believe the traditional gift for that is HTML.
01/29/10 7:55 PM
Last week Ben and I flew to San Francisco to attend the funeral of his grandmother, Betty Johnson. She was known as Granny to her grand-kids and Bettina to her husband, Russ. The love seat pictured above was her throne for the past couple of years. The phrase most-used to describe her at her memorial was “sharp wit.” She and her twin sister, Barbara, attended UC Berkeley and graduated in three years. They took all of the same classes and shared their books. After graduating, she became a computer programmer at IBM. She married a fellow IBMer and had a couple of kids, Janet and Christopher. As a family, they traveled the world and lived in places like Germany and New Zealand and eventually settled in Walnut Creek, California.
I always enjoyed visits with Betty. She didn’t suffer fools gladly and I had to be on my game around her. Though seeing her roll her eyes at something or someone was actually a treat. She never liked having her picture taken but she was complimentary of the shots I took of her lovely garden. The same garden in which Ben and I were married.
Betty was a character and so loved by her family and friends. She won’t soon be forgotten.
