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I was waiting for the bus in Sebastopol, trying to get back home to Graton, when I noticed a lot of people in various forms of costume-- most pertaining to Christmas themes-- were walking past me at the bus stop. I asked what it was, and they mentioned there was an impending Chistmas Tree liughting ceremony in the square across the street. I decided to blow off that but & catch a later one, so I could experience a community event.

I went from feeling somewhat scrooge-like to feeling a lot better after.

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After my weekend in Port Costa, I went through nearly a week of abject depression, which was interrupted by a trip to spend Thanksgiving with the family up in the Sierra Foothills. My brother picjked up my nephew in Hayward, and then came up to Cotati to pick me up. Then we drove up to my Mother's place in Cameron Park, before going to dinner at the historic Bennett House in Placerville.

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Nothing really eventful happened, except that I saw my Mother's apartment for the first time since she moved to Cameron Park (we met a couple of times nearby for her 85th and 90th birthdays, but I also saw her a few times when she came down to the Bay Area or Sonoma County).

I did receive a call from my (now) current roommate in Graton, letting me know I could move in on the first of December-- so that was good news.

We had breakfast together at a strip mall diner in Cameron Park (which wasn't bad), then we headed back toward home in the greater SF Bay Area.

Sorry for the delay-- to many excuses even to count...

After dinner at the Bull Valley Inn (mentioned in the previous post) we went across the street to catch "some band from Ireland"-- Seneca-- and as we arrived they were still setting up.

The entrance to the Warehouse (more-- and better-- pictures to follow):

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As I mentioned in my last post, I've gotten pretty busy the last few days (alternating with bouts of huge depression).

Thursday night, I attended a meetup of the North Bay Ruby Users Group, which is a group of people working with, developing, experimenting-- or just plain learning-- Ruby on Rails, which is an up-and-coming web application development framework, using Ruby as the programming language, and Rails as the framework (Rails can apparently also be used with other programming "languages" like AJAX). I was having trouble getting my Rails Server to run on my laptop, and I received hands-on assistance in working out the bugs. Now I have to learn how to use the framework to develop web applications.

I'm just getting started in this endeavor.

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