photo credit: Alin Luna via Unsplash The CDC announced in May that fully vaccinated Americans no longer need to wear masks in most indoor settings. California is officially ending the Stay at Home Order and fully reopening the economy today – no more physical distancing, no more capacity limits on...
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Friends, I am F U L L Y V A C C I N A T E D. Well, technically I will be fully vaccinated in two weeks, but you know what I mean. I got my second Pfizer shot on Wednesday and I couldn’t have been more excited about it....
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If there is anything that is worth a COVID 19-blogging update, it is this: I got my first dose of the COVID vaccine this week! I had told you already that Jon had gotten his first vaccine a week and a half ago because he was deemed eligible through our...
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J and I had talked about an overnight trip for who knows how long. So a couple of weeks ago, we finally just said, enough, let’s go. Since it was going to be a hot weekend in Sacramento, it was a good time to get away. Saturday morning, we headed...
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© earthquake.usgs.gov On Friday night, at 8:26 pm local time, California experienced its biggest earthquake in 20 years. M7.1 on the Richter Scale. The epicenter was in Ridgecrest in the Mojave Desert. I was sitting on my couch on Friday night watching TV when I heard some creaking noises. Sometimes,...
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Heather, who writes over at Heather goes to Deutschland, is an American now living in my home country Germany. She recently posted this Expat/Immigrant Survey and I thought this would be a nice way to give a little overview of how I ‘got here’. Some people have a problem with...
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You know, I do this sometimes: go to San Francisco to meet up with various ladies, that I once upon a time met on the Internet, and spent the day. I’ve done it with Viviane, with Manja, with Jenny, and last Friday with my friend Tanja . San Francisco is a...
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I’ve been a little bit at a loss of words this month…. for so many reasons I guess (do you watch the news?), but I’ve been also suffering a bit from writer’s block. Not much has been happening around here. Well, except for ALL THE RAIN. I can’t remember the...
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