Thursday, January 11, 2007

Happy New Year

Well, the holidays are over and the winter freeze is on!

Christmas was celebrated in West Hills (north of Los Angeles) with my children and grandchildren. My son Steve was supposed to join his wife Jen and daughter Emily at his in-laws in Alexandria VA but could not get out of Santa Barbara due to fog in connecting cities.

(Steve - Emily -- Jen)

Instead, he celebrated with the rest of us but eventually was able to connect with his family the the early hours of Dec 26th.

After returning to Fresno Carole and I became ill with a nasty upper respiratory infection that carried into the new year.

However, undaunted we went to San Francisco for a huge - larger than life - String Cheese Incident NYE. We hooked up with Peter and some friends and Polly and Scott - it was a wonderful time of excess and hedonism and community of the happy.....and great music.

(Peter and Friends at the Pre-Show Party)



(Carole and Randy)

(Is Scott havin' Good Time ... or what!)

Healthwise I feel pretty good. I am having some mild side effects of the pills I am but no real problems.

The exciting news is that I am now adjunct faculty of The School of Counseling at CSU Fresno and will be teaching 3 hours a week to those working on a Master's in Vocational Rehabilitation Counseling. School starts next week - I am truly honored and excited to be teaching post-graduates but am a little unsure of things like homework, testing, etc.

Carole and I are going next week to LA to watch Beth's kids while the parents are away at business meetings.

Stay tuned!

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