Us, May 10, 2026: John, Leo, Ondine, Roy, with Shadow pasted in from May 24, lol
Us, May 10, 2026: John, Leo, Ondine, Roy, with Shadow pasted in from May 24, lol
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ROY! Our first-born child is 312 months old! You can revisit his early days, including his entire first year in photos, by visiting Roy’s page.
Here we are Sunday afternoon celebrating Roy’s birthday at Kura Revolving Sushi Bar in Mission
Valley, its newest location. Parking is so much easier here than at the Convoy location! Going around the
table, there’s Ondine, Danielle, Roy, Leo, and John.
We ate so much sushi! Plus many bowls of cucumber salad, several fusion battered fish tacos with a sheet of nori in place of a tortilla, and a couple taiyaki, which were fresh and molten hot from the fryer. We earned three little prize balls, all of which contained little bubble stickers for Roy!
John had most of last week off work, which he spent uploading photos and videos to our Coast to Coast Walk page, and reconnecting with metal detecting and photography. He bodged together a new family portrait (above), about time! He also did some online trainings for one of the companies he works for, so that was a couple billable hours. Hey, plus he found $2.10 metal detecting, so he’s earning! This week, though, he has a full week of work scheduled.
Ondine took her Prius in for new tires, a four-wheel alignment, and checking an airbag warning light. So it was a good thing John was off, so she could use the Honda Fit. Also, it turned out the airbag warning light was nothing to worry about. She’s been working, one sentence at a time, on writing another story. And, over the weekend, she worked on another OWL newsletter.
Leo finished his last semester at Grossmont College, and his finals went well! He’ll be transferring to UCSD’s electrical engineering program in the Fall. He came over to select his on-campus housing and meal plan. Saturday he baked chocolate chip cookies for a party and shared some with us!
We met last week with Shannon, a fee-only financial planner, to get a second opinion on what Pure Financial has done. The news looks good; her projections, like those of Pure Financial, put us on track for Ondine to retire early, wow!
Saturday afternoon, our friend Lucy came over for veggie pizza from Mountain Mike’s and a couple episodes of Here We Go, a British comedy that we love watching over and over and over. Lucy brought veggie pot stickers, which we mostly devoured while still standing around the kitchen island. We watched the first episode, by way of introduction, and one of the second season episodes with “Void,” a character who never asks questions, because that’s one of Lucy’s pet peeves.
Neighborhood gas prices range from $5.49 to $5.89 per gallon for regular unleaded.
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