Two different El Cerritos. Mine was in greater LA area of S.Cal near Long Beach. So two El Cerritos in California. I wonder which Ehab lives in.
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Typo Boy - Oct 03, 2011 10:42:31 am PDT #1917 of 3094
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
ehab - Oct 03, 2011 10:49:05 am PDT #1918 of 3094
...all my words have been taken by my work. - Mala
Hah! Typo Boy I was just going to post that Downey is nowhere nearby and that we have no Community College in town. Are you sure you're not thinking of El Centro?
I only ask about El Centro, because I have a yearbook from HS for El Centro, because the printer screwed up our town name. Yes, I still live in the town I was raised in, which is North of Albany & Berkeley.
SuziQ, I miss Capwell's at the Mall. The Mall that exists now is completely odd to me but redeemed by TJs.
DavidS, that must mean Emmett's in middle school now? Despite living in the town I grew up in, not a single school I attended exists in the form it was when I attended. Every single one has been torn down (& rebuilt) for being unsafe. Well okay, my middle school still exists, but no one is allowed inside.
ETA: Typo Boy, Cerritos maybe? El Centro is near Mexicali...
SuziQ - Oct 03, 2011 11:06:53 am PDT #1919 of 3094
Back tattoos of the mother is that you are absolutely right - Ame
El Cerrito Plaza. Not Mall. Typo tripped me up. I've been to El Cerritos also, but just passing through.
I grew up in Berkeley, moved to El Cerrito, moved to another place in El Cerrito, then to Alameda, up to Washington state, back to Alameda, another place in Alameda, then back to El Cerrito, back to Alameda, into the house some of you have visited in Alameda, then off to Colorado.
ehab - Oct 03, 2011 11:19:44 am PDT #1920 of 3094
...all my words have been taken by my work. - Mala
Yes, the Plaza.
I too have lived all around the Bay Area, Santa Cruz, and briefly in Portland, OR. I lived in Alameda, in a basement apartment of an old Vic in the Gold Rush part of town. And in Emeryville, in a brief, failed experiment at high rise living.
I've also lived in Berkeley, Oakland, and in a few different places in El Cerrito.
Like you, SuziQ, I moved around a lot without going too far. There was a period where I moved 8 times in two years. Ugh.
SuziQ - Oct 03, 2011 11:25:49 am PDT #1921 of 3094
Back tattoos of the mother is that you are absolutely right - Ame
ehab, I highly recommend the bay area buffistas. I miss them terribly. When you are ready to be social, post something in F2F.
Typo Boy - Oct 03, 2011 11:37:33 am PDT #1922 of 3094
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
Yes misremembered part of the name. This: [link]
DavidS - Oct 03, 2011 11:47:11 am PDT #1923 of 3094
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
DavidS, that must mean Emmett's in middle school now?
He's at Albany High School now. But he goes through El Cerrito Plaza every day on his way home, and has lunch there half the time.
SailAweigh - Oct 03, 2011 12:09:09 pm PDT #1924 of 3094
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb
Nobody should have to live in El Centro, that place was maybe one step up from Yuma. Although, at least Yuma didn't have the Imperial fault under it.
ehab - Oct 03, 2011 12:13:38 pm PDT #1925 of 3094
...all my words have been taken by my work. - Mala
But he goes through El Cerrito Plaza every day on his way home, and has lunch there half the time.
Let me guess, Chef's Chinese Food.
Sheryl - Oct 03, 2011 12:54:07 pm PDT #1926 of 3094
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Hello to the lurkers and de-lurkers.
Since last year, little has changed. Still in the same house, with the same husband and the same cats. Still working for NIH, though things are in a bit of flux as to where I'll be next year.(Group/lab in the process of shutting down, but they have to find me a new position. Hopefully still at NIH.)
Still attending 10-12 conventions a year. Most recently, Renovation(WorldCon in Reno) and Intervention(local con about webcomics and other on-line stuff that we day-tripped). Next up, OVFF(Ohio Valley Filk Fest)