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The Passing of a Civil Rights Hero

One of my personal heros, Del Martin, passed away today at age 87… Del Martin along with her wife Phyllis Lyon are two of the longest heros of the GLTB Civil rights movement. If anyone doubts the longevity of Gay and Lesbian marriages they only need look at these two – they have been together for 55 years and were FINALLY allowed to marry in California on June 16th…

If you would like to read more about her here are a few good links:

http://www.eqca.org/site/pp.asp?c=kuLRJ9MRKrH&b=4445141

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Del_Martin_and_Phyllis_Lyon

I owe much of the freedom and happiness I enjoy today in no small part to these ladies!

Safe Travels! 🙂

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Scott, Alex & Pete at Regeneration – 8/11/08

Scott posted the video from the concert we went to a few weeks back… silly fun! :):)

Just had to share

Originally uploaded by SwimFinsSF

this pic made me giggle so I had to share…

Was taken at Audrey’s 4th Birthday party today…. Was a lot of fun… silly string… cupcakes.. make your own pizzas… the works! :):)

Weekend ahead

Ugggg… Its been one of those weeks and i woke up this morning absolutely exhausted. We did have Kevin’s niece Kayla in town from North Carolina which was fantastic – she’s a total sweet heart and its always great having her around. Unfortunately, because of work and other things I didn’t get to spend very much time with her. We did get to have a few nice dinners and Kevin made sure she got to get around and enjoy the city – they even went to the Monterrey Bay Aquarium and then got a massage yesterday (her first). Hopefully she had a good time – we did.

Work week was much of the usual but it seemed to all collide at the same time. My job is a very strange combination of an ever decreasing amount of technical and engineering duties combined with an ever increasing number of meetings and other people and planning activities. As a manager in a company like ours my job frequently boils down to a lot of interpersonal coaching – which is particularly funny coming from me since i’m well known to be relatively calus to such things.. (or at least I think I am)… Engineers are a very interesting breed of very smart people who care very deeply about what they do but, at the same time, can be a little bit rough around the edges when it comes to how they interact with others. They can often be blunt and very matter of fact without a ton of thought to how what they say will be received (my self included – just to be clear). So when you’re managing these type of smart folks you end up spending a good amount of time helping people through sticky interactions. So, between planning for upcoming work, people management type things, and meetings, I got very little time to be a geek which is somewhat sad! 😉 🙂

ANYWAY… thus my exhausting week…

This weekend looks to be good but very busy. Tomorrow we’ve got the gym in the AM and then Audrey’s 4th birthday party (YAY) in the afternoon. Then Sunday we’ve got some family stuff to do with Matt and Brian. Between there i’m hoping to relax a little (though also get some work done… :-\)

ok… enough for now… more later…

Tags: Family, management, work

Retro Mondays

Scott and Alex

Originally uploaded by SwimFinsSF

Oh my GOD I feel old – but on Monday night I had so much fun… Alex, Scott, and I went to a concert at the Saratoga Mountain Winery that had a bunch of bands from my high school days playing – A Flock of Seaguls (ehhh), ABC (REALLY good), Belinda Carslile (surprisingly good), and The Human League (Fantastic). It was definitely a crowd of folks our age which was made for interesting people watching (including a few folks that never really let the 80s go) but the show was great.. And it didn’t hurt that the Mountain Winery is a GREAT place to go see shows…

not a bad time for a school night!