I took advantage of the New Year’s holiday to take a ride with long-time friend, Todd Schaffer. We hit the hills and had a great 45-mile ride with snappy cold weather. (That’s crisper than crisp weather.)

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Burried deep in the damp basement of McClellandFamily.com we keep a box of old archived blog posts. Every so often we dig them out, blow off the dust and publish them here on the new and improved blog. (They were originally posted in that sappy old blog with that racist logo.) Rather than leaving them there to perish or simply bringing them forward to this blog and filing them by date where you would never see them (honestly, does anyone really read posts from 5 or 6 years ago?) we file them here under a catchy title usually with the word “archive” in it. That’s a hint: For you regular blog readers, search the word “archive” and you may see stuff you’ve never seen before. Here’s what we’ve brought out of that damp basement lately:

To my wife Lisa on Valentine’s Day 2005: A lover’s day poem written by Steve and a photo or her lipstick-written response! Originally posted February 14, 2005

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Patrick and I show off our costumes and makeup for Halloween 2010. Makeup’s a new trick for me. How did I do?

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Mike and Jody treated us to a weekend in San Francisco, a Jimmy Buffet concert and the hotel room to boot.  We were joined by Gina and Connie for the night. This is the last known photo before “Wasted Away Again in Margaritaville.”  Thanks Mike and Jody! We had a blast.

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Labor Day weekend’s cabin project was to extend the plumbing that we ran under the cabin last summer to an outdoor shower overlooking the lake.  Victor came up to help Steve and Mike finish the deck below it.  Steve broke it in properly with the first midnight shower under the stars and in the buff.

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Jody Wassermann invited me to bring my unicycle, juggling pins, balls and my best skills to the Sacramento CCHAT Center (Children’s Choice for Hearing and Talking), Jody’s place of employment, to entertain and educate the kids.  I have to admit I was a bit nervous at first, but I kind of got into character and had a blast. Jody ad-libbed with me and we created an act on the fly. In another life I’m sure I was supposed to be a clown, but I’m just too shy in this life.

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As a Christmas present, Santa brought us tickets to the Egyptian exhibit at the de Young Museum in San Francisco. We finally used them in March. Steve loved it, Lisa tolerated it and the kids ran through it as fast as they could.

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