Talking to the Undead , Meeting old friends, Staying another night

Ok issue number one: My friend and classmate is in fact not dead, but alive and living in Huntington Beach. In fact I got a call from her this morning. Apparently not only did the alumni office think she was dead, but that she was also married. Neither dead nor married, we had a nice but interesting conversation.

Also last night we had a fun dinner with two olds friends of ours in San Jose, Tim and Masa. It was really really fun. One was our old pal Masa Kobayashi, who practically lived at our house and shop, and the other was Tim Volpicella who is a great friend of Bill's and was the best man at our wedding. Today he is with another guy who stood up int he wedding, Kirk Tamura. he is another one of Bill's friends from the Music School at San Jose State, where Bill went to college. Today they all had a gig at the Children's Museum, and Bill watched it. They are in a group that writes songs for kids and we were bummed that we had not brought Spencer with us, because he would have loved it. However we are enjoying the time away. SO anyway. I am enjoying this trip to San Jose and seeing great old friends. We left here because there was no way we were ever going to be able to buy a house in a decent neighborhood, and we felt we needed that for Spencer to grow up. We also were tired of driving all the way up to Oregon just to buy guitar wood. So we do not miss the actual city of San Jose, but we do miss our dear friends very much. AND the restaurants.

I have been working on the classnotes most of the day. I have no pics but I have included, for your viewing pleasure, some pictures Bill took at the PAPA HUGS gig today that show Tim and kirk playing.