All the Pages Are My Days - the first 12 years
the (archived) online world of Mike Rodriquez 2002-2012
If this tree looks familiar (to my family), it’s because it was at Grandma Thora’s for as long as I can remember. We sure had some special times at Grandma’s on Christmas Eve, didn’t we? When I was a kid I didn’t care about things like this, but now I’m proud to the one who … Read more
handwritten yesterday; posted today Read my first newspaper since Nov. 25th. Ate first real food since breakfast on Thanksgiving. (green curry chicken from Krungthai; heavenly!) First day of my temperature not rising above 100 since Thanksgiving. First day of using the computer since the 25th. After enduring the worst illness of my life (yeah, I’m … Read more
Now seems a good time to set down my personal memories from the events of 40 years ago when President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas Texas. I was 6 years old and attending first grade at Lindsborg grade school. Two particular memories stick out for me, and to some degree allow me insight … Read more
For some reason I’ve become interested by the idea of growing our own onions. I’ve been growing them from seed for a couple of years now and this year was the best yet. Shown below are a few of the freshly harvested sweet Vidalia and basic red onions (the Italian Cippolini aren’t shown, but we … Read more
A new 15″ G4 PowerBook plus an iPod equals not much time to blog tonight, but it is worth noting that almost 20 years after the Mac came out I’m finally making the switch. As a unix user/admin for much of the past 20 years (though I mainly use windows and ssh over to my … Read more
I think this is a day every patriotic American holds sacred to some degree. A solemn day, recalling the events of two years ago and also a bit of a fearful day, wondering if there might be an anniversary attack. One might also consider the deeper implications of what happened that fateful day … Unlike … Read more
I mentioned in a previous post that we were too late returning from our Kansas trip to attend what was no doubt a most excellent Neil Young concert; but we did have our reasons. As it turned out, detouring to visit our Yorkie breeder south of Sacramento proved to be worth missing Neil; we finally … Read more
Three weeks, 5000 miles and 1200 photos later, we’re back from our visit to Kansas, where we had a great time! As reflected in this journal, we took our time both coming and going, exploring the vast and rugged Southwest United States. Our time in Kansas was very satisfying as we got to spend a … Read more
We weren’t sure what to expect at the Sacramento Yorkshire Terrier dog show. What we got was what the name implied: dogs being shown and judged as they were walked around the ring for everyone to enjoy. It was fun to hang around with a room full of yorkies (and their owners :), and we … Read more
