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Today Tucker turned 8... and we've had a tradition where we get the
golf clubs out and hit a bucket of balls.

He also gets to drive the golf cart around. He looks forward to it for months.

Today was a good day. Happy birthday Tucker!

Chloe's best stroke is breast stroke. With each practice, she gets better...

Your day starts at 6am, it's an entire culture of swimmers. This is
our first meet of the summer where one club swims against the other...

I was experimenting with a new set of camera apps.

 

After dinner, grabbed the football and went to the park for some catch and to run some plays...

...Tucker now knows what a 'button-hook' is.

Taken at Los Gatos Swim & Racquet Club

Two years in the waiting... and finally last night I got to see the final stretch of the U2 tour in Oakland. Outdoor stadium in all it's glory.

It felt late to the party, but timeless as a music experience.

Also a nice bit of photos from Richard Koci Hernandez, who was standing right next to me...

A great hightlght was the 'Beautiful Day from Space' intro segment from the astronaut 200 miles above the earth.

 

The set list was great. I heard a few new live versions. Here's U2's Oakland show report:

Even Better Than The Real Thing
I Will Follow
Get On Your Boots
Magnificent
Mysterious Ways
Elevation
Until The End Of The World
All I Want Is You
Stay (Faraway, So Close!)
Beautiful Day
Pride (In The Name Of Love)
Miss Sarajevo
Zooropa
City Of Blinding Lights
Vertigo
I'll Go Crazy / Discotheque
Sunday Bloody Sunday
Scarlet
Walk On

ENCORE

One
Where The Streets Have No Name

ENCORE 2

Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me
With Or Without You
Moment Of Surrender

 

 

 

 

We got a chance to go to the Giants game recently. Tucker is just
rolling off of baseball season, so it was fun for him and I to
talk-it-up a bit about what the players were doing.