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Sep.02.2012
This day, and for the next several weeks, were taken up in adjusting to the Granada Hotel, and various physical problems.
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Aug.02.2012
Fire/Yahoo-sbcglobal snafu's took up the day, but near the end, two lucky calls to Robin Pappas and Christianson (thanks to Son Guy) paid off.
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Jul.31.2012
After a Full Monte Breakfast (the best meal of day at the Grenada), I felt curiously weak and retired to my bed.
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Jul.29.2012
Son Guy woke late this morning with an inexplicable headache. I went to brunch and brought him back "a Sunday Special."
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Jul.28.2012
The day did not begin very well . . . but then, again, perhaps it did. We missed breakfast, which our new friends promised us was full of flap jacks, bacon and eggs -- all those things we love but neither Guy nor I should have.
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Jul.28.2012
This day will be told in retrospect, for I was unable to get through initial Granada Hotel wi-fi glitches to the Red Room
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Jul.25.2012
This was our last day in the Civic Center Holiday Inn.
We began to wind up our affairs here, and prepare for our move to the Granada Hotel.
Phone calls to the Red Cross and Elder Services about Son Guy's discoveries at the Granda were not successful. And...
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Jul.25.2012
We spent much of the day making tentative preparations to go into our new temporary headquarters. Leslie from the Elder Services made a visit, bringing us the application forms for the Grenada Hotel. Later, Son Guy made a trip to the hotel, carrying the completed form. Then, he picked up our...
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Jul.23.2012
We spent the day on practical matters.
Son Guy and I worked on activating one of the debit cards, and after two tries, made it work.
Guy went shopping and brought home cheese, salami, yogurt, wine, and other goodies.
Paul of the Red Cross called to tell us that our residential...
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Jul.22.2012
A fine Sunday. Aside from the fact that I missed the bed in the dark last night, hurt my back, and almost smashed Son Guy's guitar, everything was coming up bright here in San Francisco.
After dealing with my Email (which included a nice note from Wayne the K. promising a return visit...
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Jul.22.2012
We slept even later today, in the pleasant quarters of the Civic Center Holiday Inn. We must have needed rest and relaxation after the welcome news that we were going to be extended here until Thursday morning while details are worked out for a temporary let in a retirement hotel near ...
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About Alex
Born in a little town east of Cleveland, Ohio, I attended Kent State, taking a degree in Political Science and History; served in the U.S. Army (Anti-Aircraft Artillery) at Lakenheath Airbase in Suffolk, East Anglia, England.
This experience was one the most...
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Causes Alex Fraser Supports
Greenpeace
Alex’s Favorite Books
Revolutionary Road, Easter Parade, Disturbing the Peace, and Eleven Kinds of Loneliness by Richard Yates; Pan by Knut Hamsun; The Dubliners by James Joyce; Dog...