Monthly Archives: July 2002

Totoro

We saw My Neighbor Totoro on Friday during lunch. Excellent flick! It is made by Miyazaki (Kiki’s, Mononoke, etc). It is probably made for a slightly younger audience than Mononoke, but is quite enjoyable for both kids and grown-ups.

I want to get a lot more Miyazaki stuff on DVD but apparently it is hard, they aren’t distributed in the US so you have to get imports. Angie says this is because “Disney sucks” and I believe her :)

Anniversary dinner

We had our 10th wedding anniversary last month (June 21). We celebrated by going to Mudds (San Ramon) with a few friends.

Mudd’s is a *really* nice restaurant, a block or so away from Crow Canyon Road in San Ramon. Really excellent food, and much of the produce and herbs, etc. are grown on the premises. I highly recommend it, and it is totally worth the drive.

We had a somewhat small gathering, Miche and I, Jeff and Laura, Corrii, Darren, and John. Darren and John were also at our wedding 10 years ago, so I was happy they were able to make it. I know there are others of you who would have liked to be there, but we will make it up to you soon… I’m actually glad we had kind of a small group.

Food was excellent as always, and the company was wonderful. We took a few moments after dinner to pass our rings around to our friends and asked them to give us their blessing and best wishes for the next 10 years. (Oh and dessert was wonderful too!)

Thanks to everyone who made our special evening even more special!

Month in review

I have done battle with the AC and won. It is now running and the temp in the front room has gone from 78.1 to 75.6 in about an hour. Anyway, the effect is not instantaneous, but it may keep the room cooler than the outside. (Usually it is the reverse.)

I know I have not written in a while. Sorry about that. I have been a bit distracted with work, and with anniversaries and weddings and stuff. I’ll try to recap some of the things that have happened in the last month or so.

Anniversary dinner
Got a Tivo
Had to let a team member go due to cost cutting
Saw Josh
Saw Merlin & Lynette wed
Saw Spiderman movie

I have been trying to keep active, and watch my diet in a general way, but I have not been very good at keeping up the exercise the last couple weeks. I lost 8 lbs in May and about 8 in June, so that’s good… but I’ve been about the same weight for 2-3 weeks, so this will probably add up to not as much progress in July, we’ll see. As long as I don’t start an increase trend I am satisfiend, for now. My blood pressure seems to be fine, and my back and my leg are back to normal.