Category Archives: Around Berkeley

Day 3 – Poll Worker

Posted on 2024-11-04 by Holly

Today’s biggest challenges stemmed from disappointing people. We have posted hours. We don’t choose the hours, the hours are regulated. No, we can’t accept your ballot outside of those times. We are closed before opening and after closing. There are … Continue reading →

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Day 2 – Poll Worker

Posted on 2024-11-03 by Holly

And it was another technical 9-5 day. Not counting the fact that we need to be there an hour prior for set up and an hour after for tear down. Specifically, there are things we can leave up overnight. But … Continue reading →

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Day 1 as a Poll Worker

Posted on 2024-11-02 by Holly

Well, obviously, I am not going to be boring anyone about stitching today other than to state minimal progress. I had just drifted upstairs to get organized when I got a call from the Voter Reg office. I was on … Continue reading →

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Best Stop Sign ever

Posted on 2024-10-22 by Holly

now – where did I put the notes I wrote while in San  Rafael?  No clue, thought I saved it in notes or email, but then my phone was down to essentially no battery so it could have been completely … Continue reading →

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It is a lot

Posted on 2024-10-17 by Holly

I spent most of the evening over in Albany at some in person training. In a moment of what? Insanity, patriotism, boredom, curiosity? Not sure exactly what, I followed a link in one of the Veteran related emails and volunteered … Continue reading →

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Older than Snoopy

Posted on 2024-08-01 by Holly

Yes, I am. There was an entry in the August Edition of my local library newsletter under the kids activities relating to the Charles Schultz Museum and Snoopy’s 56th Birthday celebration. And I went “wtf?” I remembered Snoopy from childhood … Continue reading →

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Bastille Day

Posted on 2024-07-11 by Holly

Which, not being a Francophile doesn’t mean a lot to me. But there was a concert in the Redwood Grove that is a part of the UC Berkeley Botanical Gardens. George loves the location, thought he would enjoy the concert … Continue reading →

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Overpasses

Posted on 2024-07-10 by Holly

I was thinking as I drove to the Oakland VA Clinic yesterday about how much of the freeway system here is elevated. In some places there are overpasses on top of overpasses while roads travel beneath as city streets. As … Continue reading →

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It is early

Posted on 2024-06-11 by Holly

this morning, rising when the sky is still that grayish color with the consistency of flannel as I look out the window toward the San Francisco Bay. The lights are gleaming red, orange, yellow, white from the Berkeley Marina stretching … Continue reading →

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Banding Birds

Posted on 2024-05-15 by Holly

It has been four years since I started watching the Cal Campanile Falcons each spring. Prior to that, I didn’t know that they existed – although Annie & Grinnell had been making the tower their home for at least a … Continue reading →

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Allergy Season

Posted on 2024-05-06 by Holly

has arrived here. There has been more than enough rain to have everything blooming, pretty plants and weeds alike. I love the flowers, but flowers = pollen. So here I am, itchy eyes, runny nose, post nasal drips + cough. … Continue reading →

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Falcons

Posted on 2024-05-04 by Holly

  Having mentioned my favorites – the local Peregrin falcons inhabiting the Campanile on the UC Berkeley campus I have been reminded of a couple of other locations where falcons are currently nesting. First,  there is the pair currently nesting … Continue reading →

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and the final egg hatched

Posted on 2024-04-24 by Holly

According to the original estimates by the Falcon crew – there was a hatching party planned for today. Now, the nest is up near the top of the Campanile. Humans can’t exactly all go up there in a crowd. But … Continue reading →

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And now there are three

Posted on 2024-04-23 by Holly

When I checked in on the CalFalcons channel this morning, there was a third chick with one egg left to hatch. Checking in on the live feed off & on during the day – and watching one of the adult … Continue reading →

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Hatching

Posted on 2024-04-22 by Holly

Like many others during the pandemic, I started watching various live feeds on YouTube. The natural disasters are pretty self evident. I never expected to (nor wanted to) have first hand and up close experience with a volcano. Iceland provided … Continue reading →

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and today 0715

Posted on 2024-04-17 by Holly

Again, no cat early this morning. In fact, I woke at 0715, light shining in the window and a feeling that something must be wrong. No cat. Oh dear. Swinging my legs out of bed, there was this scurrying sound … Continue reading →

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WBIT

Posted on 2024-03-21 by Holly

Looks and sounds like those responsible should have come up with a better name. It stands for Women’s Basketball Invitational Tournament. California (UC Berkeley specifically since it is considered the MAIN CAL school) landed a slot and the first game … Continue reading →

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Turkeys!

Posted on 2024-03-16 by Holly

And…. they are back! It has been more than a few months since I have spotted any of the stupid birds around the intersection of San Pablo & Marin in Albany. But there they were, on a Saturday morning hanging … Continue reading →

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Go vote

Posted on 2024-03-05 by Holly

If you are a US person, and live in one of the states which are holding primary elections today – please go and vote. Or mail in your ballot, which ever applies. California is an automatic mail ballot state. This … Continue reading →

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They won!

Posted on 2024-01-05 by Holly

After a long, long day – in which Alex & I had breakfast out, then hit the grocery store, I stopped at Michaels, JoAnns, and a watch repair place on Solano Ave (and it wasn’t even noon…) I loaded the … Continue reading →

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