As we have done every Memorial Day weekend, the three girls (Iris, Stephanie, and Morgan) played in the Tigers Invitational Basketball Tournament. Iris’ team lost both of their games. Stephanie’s team, the Venice Angels, lost their first two but won their last game. One of their former teammates, Ashley, had flown in from Alabama and… Read More »
Jane Flynn came into town for a short vacation, and we got together at Paula’s house for dinner along with Maureen Teague, one of the other techs that worked in the clinical lab. We had a lot of good Thai food, and for dessert, a birthday cake to celebrate Ron’s birthday. Earlier in the day,… Read More »
The Center Street School Cougar Choir performed at Universal Studio’s “Music in the Park” competition. The choir sang one warm-up piece, Pie Jesu, and two judged pieces, All Night, All Day and Exsultate Cantamos Festivo. Morgan is in the top row, second from the left. The Choir placed First and earned the second highest point… Read More »
Ron and his family on his mom’s side stopped by after Bev & Summy’s wedding to visit his grandmother. She lives in a convalescent home in Glendale. Unfortunately, the staff won’t let her walk anymore because she’s taken some falls and broken some bones, so she gets pushed around in a wheel chair. Plus she… Read More »
We went to Bev & Summy’s wedding. Summy is Ron’s first cousin once removed (Ron’s dad’s and Summy’s grandmother are brother & sister). It was a beautiful day for a wedding: the weather was warm and the ceremony was held in the outdoor courtyard of the Pacific Asia Museum in Pasadena. Stephanie was away at… Read More »
Stephanie left for a weekend at AstroCamp with 40 other students from El Segundo Middle School. The students conducted various experiments with gases and saw Saturn through a telescope on Saturday night.
One of Ron’s former bosses, Dr. Sydney Finegold, received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Veterans Administration for his research work. Syd is a pioneer in the area of anaerobic microbiology and has three organisms named after him. Ron worked in two different research laboratories that he supervised from 1982 to 1987.
We gathered with Iris’ side of the family at Hop Li in Santa Monica for an early Mothers Day celebration. Along with Iris’ mom, Sue, there was: Iris’ brother, Scott; Scott’s two ex-wives, Betty Ann and Julie; Scott’s son, Casey; Scott’s daughter, Jennifer, and her husband, Edward; and Betty Ann’s boyfriend, Dave.
Well, this is the second incarnation of our website. The old software package, ACS Blog, wasn’t being updated, and when our web host, GoDaddy.com, offered WordPress as an application option, I jumped on it. For the more technically inclined, that meant that I had to have our website transferred to an IIS 7 server because… Read More »
Morgan, Stephanie, and Ron ran in the Los Angeles Firecracker 5K held in Chinatown. This is the first Firecracker for Morgan and the third one for Stephanie. Ron began running the 10K version more than 20 years ago, but his knee can only handle the 5K now. It is a very hilly course (uphill to… Read More »