June 21, 2000
Dear Everyone:
In two days (only 36 hours to go!), I will finally,
finally, FINALLY get the permanent replacement for The Tooth.
This will be in the form of (I’m assuming) one
cap and then two
caps with a bridge
between them, filling in the Hole where The Tooth lived until 6 months
ago. We may celebrate by
eating sandwiches for lunch on Friday.
Quite often, on Fridays, a group of us “Ladies”
will go to lunch together.
We try various eating establishments around “Livermore” and Pleasanton.
When I first started working in “Livermore”, about 5-6 years ago,
the choices were far more limited.
For a long time, the only place I went for lunch was a fast food
place, primarily because it was the only one I knew how to find.
I always said that I was going to use my lunch
breaks to drive around in “Livermore” and get to know the place.
Somehow, that didn’t happen.
In fact, it was several years before I realized that, if you
crossed the freeway, you weren’t in “Livermore” anymore; you were in
Pleasanton. Like
Walnut
Creek,
Pleasant Hill and
Concord,
which city you were actually in sometimes depended on the width of a
sidewalk.
In the past five years, this whole area has grown
by leaps and bounds. Now you
could spend hours at lunch, if you didn’t have to go back to work, that
is. There’s even an
Imax theatre complex,
with a total of 21 auditoriums, in “Livermore”.
In fact, I went there last weekend to see Disney’s
Fantasia
2000. “Jeannie”
needed to work that Sunday and I figured this was one movie she would be
willing to skip.
I found the film very interesting, even though I
was familiar with only four of the pieces selected (including
The Sorcerer’s Apprentice, which was kept from the original).
Unfortunately, too many people thought, “Disney = kid’s movie”,
and brought many small children with them.
Small children don’t understand why whales should be floating up
through the air into outer space.
They kept asking what was going on.
(Frankly, I was asking, too, but silently.
Apparently, it was to illustrate the freedom and creativity of
the artists… or something like that.)
But the kids settled down when they could watch
Mickey Mouse,
someone they recognized; and everyone liked the piece which answered the
musical question: “What
happens when you give a
yo-yo to a flock of
flamingoes?”
Short Letter this Week. This evening I had to go to
a
Homeowners Association Board meeting, which lasted longer than usual
(usual is 15-20 minutes), after which we needed to go out and inspect a
tree, some bushes and some
graffiti.
Someone had asked to have a tree cut down because
her unit got too much shade.
(I should be so lucky as to have such shade.)
We decided to have the tree pruned as part of a general
tree-pruning session.
There’s a hydrangea bush at one end of the complex that looks like it
could have devoured Detroit.
I know we call it Twin Creeks Garden, but there is such a thing as too
much garden in some places.
And we’ll get the tiny bit of graffiti on the back retaining wall
cleaned off.
The joys of homeownership.
Love, as always,
Pete
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