Posted in Commentary, tagged Angelo Mozilo, business, Countrywide, Countrywide Financial, subprime on October 29, 2007 | No Comments »
Do you believe a word being uttered by Mr. Mozilo?
Mozilo is the CEO of Countrywide Financial and is at the heart of the excess and greed demonstrated by the mortgage industry. For several years during the boom where prices on houses have risen as much as three fold, CFC originated millions of “sub-prime” [...]
Posted in Karate, Kids, tagged jiu jitsu, Karate, Life, red belt on October 27, 2007 | No Comments »
I spent this afternoon washing down the front yard and driveway and collected a bucket of ashes and muck that has fallen out of the sky.
The kids have been limited to indoor activities because of the poor air quality. So no running, no cross country and no practices. They have been continuing [...]
Posted in Life, tagged Irvine Fire, NASA, Pictures, Santiago Fire on October 27, 2007 | No Comments »
I came across this satellite image from Nasa that shows the extent of the fires and smoke we have been dealing with. I’m not positive, but I think ours is the single dot above the two large clumps of fires just north of the border.
It has now been 6 days since the fires started. [...]
Posted in Events, Science, tagged Arson, Fire, Irvine, Jamboree, Portola Hills, Santiago Fire, Toll Road, Tustin on October 22, 2007 | 3 Comments »
Yesterday the Irvine fire in Santiago Canyon came dangerously close to our house. The Fire Department was doing mandatory evacuations and we had to leave at about 10pm.
The fire jumped over the 261 Freeway and came down the hill to Jamboree Road. This is less than 100 yards from our house.
This first picture [...]
Posted in Commentary, Entertainment, tagged 52XBR4, DirecTV, hdtv, sony, XBR4 on October 21, 2007 | No Comments »
I thought I’d provide an update on our Sony 52 XBR4 TV after having it now for a couple of months.
First, on the CNBC ticker problem I mentioned: I believe this to be a problem with CNBC and not the TV. Last week, DirecTV added CNBC-HD to their lineup and the ticker now scrolls [...]
Posted in Boy Scouts, tagged Boy Scouts, Brea, Camperall, Camping, Webelos on October 21, 2007 | No Comments »
We just got back from a 1 night camping trip with me and the boys and pack 541. We camped out in Tonner Canyon about 30 miles from here. The campsite is owned by the BSA (Firestone Camp).
There were about 20 kids in the pack and several hundred that were part of the [...]
Posted in Mountain Bike, tagged Moab, Mountain Biking, Porcupine Rim, Slickrock, Sovereign on October 21, 2007 | 1 Comment »
I got back from Moab and wanted to post some pictures. There were 13 of us that met from Seattle, Texas and So. Cal as part of our annual trip.
The first day was a new trail called the Sovereign trail. It was an 11 mile ride with just 1000 feet of climbing [...]
Posted in Cross Country, tagged Cross Country on October 21, 2007 | No Comments »
Nikhil ran in the Mt. Sac 2K billed as the world’s largest Cross Country Meet. More about Mt. Sac.
There were 24 races ranging from 0.8 mile for the 3rd graders to about 4 miles for the high schoolers. There were over 20,000 kids for the set of races from all over Southern California. [...]
Posted in Karate, tagged Karate, Sports on October 11, 2007 | No Comments »
This weekend, Vikram tested for his karate black belt.
It was about a 2 hour test where they tested all of the moves he has learned. Vikram has been practicing for weeks. In addition, he had to write an essay about what it means to be a black belt. There was board breaking [...]
Posted in Cross Country, tagged Cross Country on October 11, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Nikhil ran his first 5K this weekend. He has been training with the Equalizers for about 5-6 weeks now and he participated in the Chapman University Toyota of Orange 5K Run.
He had a time of 27:09 and got 231st place out of 525 finishers - pretty good for a 10 year old. He beat two [...]
Posted in Kids, School, tagged Kids, School, Walking on October 3, 2007 | No Comments »
Today was International Walk to School Day (IWALK)! I have the day off as I’m driving to Moab this afternoon so I walked the kids to school. It is about a mile each way.
Posted in Mountain Bike on October 1, 2007 | No Comments »
Yesterday was my last ride before my Moab trip on Wednesday so I did an extra long ride of 23.5 miles climbing 3400 feet of elevation in about 4 hours. This will be typical of the 3 days of Moab riding although the pace will be a lot slower and the terrain a lot [...]
