Tanya Tries Tomakua

Tanya becomes Tomakua. (Tomasito photo, 2010)

Tanya thought she would try the Tomakua head-dress and struck a pose, 

Very nice!

This dancing mask is fairly thick  papier mache and "Heavy." she said.

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Why Smile?

Why is This Man Smiling?


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Simple Is

Kitchen View. (Tomasito photo, 2010)


As simple does.



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Jury Duty

Tanya photo.

I did the San Diego jury duty as required.

I was highly pleased that I was able to take the "Sprinter" train from Escondido to the Vista station and ride my bike on over to the court house through the very heavy morning traffic--and arrive before the 0800 deadline.

We 250 prospective jurors whiled away the time from 8 until noon when we were ALL sent home.

How lucky we are in this country and state to have a jury trial guaranteed to us--a jury of our peers----just plain ordinary citizens chosen at random--random?--well from the DMV lists so not entirely at random--no homeless folks, etc. but almost random.

Still, it is pretty impressive that it can happen.

When we were told we could leave, the lady in charge said--"Take it easy driving out of the parking lot since there will be 250 cars all trying to exit at once".

"No", I thought, "249 cars and one bicycle!"

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