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home :: community Sun, 29 Feb 2004
10 days in California with family and friends
On Thursday, the first night, I had dinner with Bruce Martin and Salil Deshpande, old friends from my early Sun DOE/NEO days. They are now with The Middleware Company. On Friday, the next day, Flavia flew to California too. I met up with her, her son, Venus, and his girlfriend, Chiara, at La Pena in Berkeley for dinner and to hear our friend Rafael Manriquez perform. He literally sings like an angel, not to mention his superb song writing. Flavia and I have been fortunate to have performed with him at La Pena in the past and we appear on a recent recording too. After the concert we stayed late at La Pena hanging out with many of Flavia's Chileno friends. She was in her element. We stayed with Venus and Chiara in their apartment for the weekend. We met Rafael and his partner Paz for breakfast on Saturday. Then Flavia treated Venus and Chiara to a trip to the grocery store (as all good parents do when they visit) while I walked to Telegraph Avenue and browsed the bookstores - Cody's, Moe's, Shakespeare and Co. Shambala has closed down after 35 years. I purchased a number of books at Moe's, including Nietzsche's Ecce Homo which I read during the week. On Sunday Flavia and I left Venus and Chiara to study (they are attending UC Berkeley) and went to Marin to hear another Chileno musician friend play: Andres Condon. He has had success at building a touring career and offered us many good suggestions and contacts. Flavia and I then continued on to Green Gulch Zen Center where we got married. We parked in the dirt lot above the yurt where we had our ceremony and walked through the residences, past the garden, to Muir beach. I spent my time communing with Lew Welch's Wobbly Rock while Flavia sat on the sand and gazed at the sea. Again, she was in her element. Flavia returned to Utah on Monday while I stayed at California, working on-site at Sun. On Monday night I met up with Jed Krohnfeldt and Arun Ramachandran of Hitachi Storage Software, old friends from Patil Systems and Cirrus Logic days. We had a wonderful evening reminiscing. On Tuesday morning I had breakfast with Chung Le, VP of Product Development at Filemaker. Chung was my manager at Sun when I first joined in 1994. He was my first manager there and still, by far, the best. I met David Ungar for lunch. David was my mentor a year ago. He is very good at asking questions and not being satisfied with easy answers. David is the father of the programming language Self. Wednesday evening I spent alone browsing Digital Guru technical bookstore. They seem to have taken the place of the defunct Computer Literacy and Stacey's bookstores. On Thursday I met my long-time and best friend, musician Andrew Voigt at Yoshi's in Oakland. We heard Mark Levine's Latin Tinge. I took a few 1-1 theory classes with Mark Levine around the time his book, The Jazz Theory Book came out. Some of Flavia's bandmates from her Sol y Luna days were on the bandstand: Michael Spiro (with whom I was lucky to have played a couple of gigs with when David Belove asked me to sub for him) and Melecio Magdaluyo, who only played the last few tunes. Andrew is at the beginning of a new relationship with Lori B. He showed me her new CD which is about to be released. On Thursday I spent the night alone at more bookstores. I picked up copies of Daniel J. Boorstin's The Seekers and Bataille's Collected Poetry at Wessex Books in Menlo Park. After dinner I spent the rest of the evening browsing at Kepler's. I returned home to Flavia on Friday night. I've spent the weekend shoveling snow and reading The Seekers. We also watched De Niro's A Bronx Tale, which we checked out from the library last night. And I haven't even mentioned all the good people I met with during the day at Sun, but that would not be appropriate. |
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