Two weeks after the Arizona adventure with Aaron, Audrey let me tag along for a singing gig she had at Mission San Juan Capistrano<\/a>. She had OK’d my visit with the choir director, but apparently it was considerably more crowded than he expected so he set me up in a chair next to the organ for the invitation-only event, and I got to watch a sixteen person choir sing from onstage while the Bishop presented Papal honors to members of the Parish. The amazing music was followed up by a wine reception on the mission grounds (including the oldest building in California), and all-in-all it was a fairly decent way to spend a Friday.<\/p>\n Aside from these outings the rest of the month has been fairly tame. I’m running about thirty miles a week again, Audrey has been barbecuing up a storm (the girl is a samurai warrior on the grill), Caitlin made a brief visit to LA for a conerence and some sushi, and in two weeks I’m off to Pennsylvania for Grandma Holliday’s ninetieth birthday. JAMWiki<\/a> version 0.7.2 was released yesterday, work at DIRECTV<\/a> continues as usual, and the living room is now home to a monstrously large flat screen TV<\/a> that makes the baby ducks jumping out of trees in Planet Earth<\/a> even more spectacular. Oh, and Audrey has taken to spreading walnuts in the hallway, so we now have squirrels that visit our living room regularly. Life isn’t bad.<\/p>\n May blew past without any journal updates, so here’s a summary of the month: Aaron somehow managed to be the only person in America to get a job in new home sales during this market, and moved to Phoenix to work in Pulte’s internet sales group. I made it over there to visit him a … Continue reading “Tardy”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1023\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Squirrel](\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3588\/3598608509_9bdeca2212.jpg\")
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