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A Busy Monday

Yesterday started off normally enough. Wake up too early; fight to get the kids dressed, fed, and out the door. I dropped SKGP off at school, and went in to work.

I completed and mailed the state and federal taxes for the Rucker Home & School Club, wrote some work related checks, and checked some other items off my to do list.

From 3:30 to 5:30, I worked with the Rucker (SKGP's school) Principal and SKGP's teacher, Mr. H, to narrow down the list of architects from 15 to 6 for the Rucker rebuild. Then I went to the gym, relieved Nana from EJP duty. I watched SKGP do some gymnastics, and tried unsuccessfully to help the girls do some kind of bar exercise.

I took EJP home and washed the dishes while RCP made calzones for dinner. During dinner, I got a text message and a voice mail from my VIP (police volunteer) team leader. I ignored that for a bit. The phone rang, and it was someone looking for me to run for my state district's Libertarian Party state senator seat, which I declined.

After I finished eating, I decided that this would be as good a time as any to start actually doing something with the VIPs, so I called my leader back and left him a vmail. Then, I suited up, and drove to where the text said the issue was, arriving a few minutes before 8.

Around 7:35, a truck ran into a bike. I gathered that the guy was hurt pretty bad and might die; there was quite a bit of blood in the street, and his bike was broken in half. While we didn't learn anything last night, the newspaper reports that he's going to be fine.

For the next 3.5 hours, I stood in the cold with a little flashlight with a red plastic cone on the end, waving at cars to keep moving. I chatted with some of the other volunteers, and learned some of the basics of keeping a crime scene clear. I learned some things that I need to add to my kit, like gloves and warmer socks. I lit a flare. I watched the Gilroy PD team do a real survey of the area. It was an interesting, if boring and cold, experience.

I got home a little before midnight.

SKGP Christmas Concert

Here is a clip of SKGP's recent Christmas concert.  It's very shaky footage that might make you sea sick, so perhaps you can just listen.

2009 Level 4 Nor-Cal State Gymnastics Championships

Vault: 9.00 (19th Tie)
Bars: 9.1 (8th Tie)
Beam: 8.425 (17th Tie)
Floor: 8.9 (13)
All Around: 35.425 (14th)

Email to Gilroy Council

My email to the Gilroy City Council:

Good morning. 

In today's Dispatch, Councilman Bracco indicated that he had only received one pro- medical marijuana dispensary email.  I wanted to add one more email to the support pile.

Clearly, the recent actions of Medileaf are antagonistic and not in the spirit of cooperation, and they are probably not the right fit for our community. However, I support the idea of allowing citizens the freedom to make their own decisions.  While reasonable people may disagree about the effectiveness and ethics of using marijuana, it seems logical to me that in a free society, people should be able to make their own choices and mistakes.

Thank you very much,

JEP

Gymnastics Meet: The Pumpkin Caper, San Luis Obispo

Last weekend was our final meet of the season.  We journeyed to San Luis Obispo (a very nice town) for the Pumpkin Caper, 2009.

SKGP's scores:

Vault: 8.75 (7th place)
Bars: 8.75 (2nd place)
Beam: 8.35 (2nd place)
Floor: 8.4 (3rd place)
All Around: 34.25 (2nd place)

Also, SKGP won the handstand contest for her level.

Aubry from USA Sports took first place, and did an amazing job.  In addition, USA Sports Level 4 won the second place team award, which is the first trophy for Gilroy!  Great jobs, girls.

The scoring was very tough, but seemed to be consistently applied.

The next meet is the Nor Cal State Championships in early December.  SKGP and one other girl from her gym, plus a couple from the Hollister gym qualified.