Willow and Sage Magazine

Saw this in my optometrist's office; it's like Make magazine, but for home health products:
https://stampington.com/willow-and-sage?page=2

Kevin Voted (By Mail) Today

Statewide Contests

Governor: Gavin Newsom
Lieutenant Governor: Eleni Kounalakis
Secretary of State: Alex Padilla
Controller: Betty T. Yee
Treasurer: No vote
Attorney General: Xavier Becerra
Insurance Commissioner: Ricardo Lara

Federal Contests

United States Representative: Jimmy Panetta
United States Senator: Kevin De Leon

State Ballot Measures

1. Y: Issues $4 billion in bonds for housing programs and veterans' home loans
2. Y: Authorizes state to use revenue from millionaire's tax for $2 billion in bonds for homelessness prevention housing
3. N: Issues $8.877 billion in bonds for water-related infrastructure and environmental projects
4. Y: Issues $1.5 billion in bonds for children's hospitals
5. N: Revises process for homebuyers who are age 55 or older or severely disabled to transfer their tax assessments
6. N: Repeals 2017's fuel tax and vehicle fee increases and requires public vote on future increases
7. Y: Authorizes legislature to provide for permanent daylight saving time if federal government allows
8. Y: Requires dialysis clinics to issue refunds for revenue above a certain amount
9. -
10. Y: Allows local governments to regulate rent on any type of housing
11. N: Allow ambulance providers to require workers to remain on call during breaks paid
12. Y: Bans sale of meat from animals confined in spaces below specific sizes

District Contests
Member, State Board of Equalization, 2nd District: Malia Cohen
Member of the State Assembly, 29th District: Mark Stone
Superintendent of Public Instruction: Tony K. Thurmond

Judicial
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court: Carol A. Corrigan
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court: Leondra R. Kruger

Presiding Justice, Court of Appeal, 6th District: Mary J. Greenwood

Associate Justice, Court of Appeal, 6th District: Allison Marston Danner

Associate Justice, Court of Appeal, 6th District: Nathan D. Mihara

County
Y: Measure G
Y: Measure H

Santa Cruz City School District
Governing Board Member, Area 1 (Inside City): Deb Tracy-Proulx
Governing Board Member, Area 3 (At Large): Cindy Ranii

City
Member of City Council:

1. Justin Cummings
2. Cynthia Hawthorne
3. Drew Glover

Y: Measure M

RESOURCES

https://www.jwz.org/blog/2018/10/lyft-drops-100k-against-sf-tax-to-fund-housing-for-homeless/
https://brokeassstuart.com/2018/10/09/the-november-2018-bas-voter-guide/
City on a Hill Press
Good Times newspaper

California Vacation 2018 - Day 6

TIMELINE

• 8:30 a.m. Wake up
• 10:00 a.m. Breakfast at Starbucks #25941
• 10:15 a.m. Depart for La Quinta hotel
• 11:00 a.m. Arrive at correct La Quinta LAX hotel
• Noon Depart for Santa Cruz
• 2:00 p.m. Snack at Petro #327, Grapevine (Lebec)
• 6:30 p.m. Arrive Santa Cruz, get cats
• 6:45 p.m. Home

NOTES

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California Vacation 2018 - Day 5

TIMELINE

• 8:00 a.m. Wake up
• 9:30 a.m. Breakfast at Starbucks #25941
• 10:30 a.m. Depart for Santa Monica Pier
• 4:00 p.m. Arrive Hollywood Walk of Fame
• 7:30 p.m. Dinner at the Sizzler
• 10:00 p.m. Arrive La Quinta hotel
• Midnight Back at our hotel

NOTES

• Pallisades
• Route 66 terminus sign
• Lost iPhone
• Playing on the beach, building with wet sand
• Shaved ice (rainbow)
• Movies: It's a Mad Mad World, Rio Bravo (Brad's favorite)
• Buck Owens and the Bakersfield sound
• Playdoh
• Bunny (Ruby)
• Saying hello to Violet and Jenny via video chat
• Modern (Georgia) vs. Traditional (Brad) Australian: Mate, stubbie (beer), 
• Beer:
• Regional where Brad lives: Pint, Middy, pony, shot
• Other: Pint, half-pint, 
• Stubbie vs. long neck
• MYass (McDonalds logo + town of Yass)
• Homing pigeons nearby pooping all over their solar panels, etc.

California Vacation 2018 - Day 4

TIMELINE

• 7:30 a.m. Wake up
• 8:15 a.m. Breakfast at Friendship Motor Inn
• 10:30 a.m. Small Mang keychain plush at Line Friends Popup, Hollywood
• 10:45 a.m. Gift at Ghirardelli on Hollywood Boulevard
• 1:15 p.m. Lunch at Bibigo, Westfield Culver City mall
• 2:00 p.m. Check-in to Crystal Inn & Suites
• 5:30 p.m. Edward Vincent Jr Park
• 6:45 p.m. Dinner at Sizzler
• 9:15 p.m. Back at hotel

NOTES

• Hollywood stars:
• Dr Suess
• Mister Rogers
• Spike Jones
• Weird Al Yankovic
• Toshiro Mifune
• Groucho Marx
• Learned about Line Friends
• Had lunch and dinner with Dawn's friend Jill and her family: Brad, Georgia, and Ruby

California Vacation 2018 - Day 3

TIMELINE

• 9:00 a.m. Wake up
• 9:30 a.m. Breakfast at Friendship Motor Inn
• 10:15 a.m. Arrive La Brea Tar Pits / Page Museum
• 11:00 a.m. "Titans of the Ice Age 3D"
• 1:00 p.m. Excavators Tour (Page Museum)
• 3:45 p.m. Arrive Griffith Observatory
• 4:00 p.m. Leonard Nimoy Event Horizon Theater film: "The Once and Future Griffith Observatory"
• 4:30 p.m. Lunch at Cafe at the End of the Universe
• 5:15 p.m. Planetarium show: "Light of the Valkyries - Our 75th anniversary show reveals the wonders of the northern lights."
• 6:45 p.m. Leave for hotel

NOTES

• Thunder and lightning started on way home
• Listened to classical music on radio KUSC FM 91.5
• La Brea Tar Pits / Page Museum
• Tar pull interactive exhibit clearly demonstrates how less than 6 inches of sticky asphalt would doom nearly anything
• Learned difference between asphalt (natufal) and tar (result of human processing)
• Asphalt bubbling to the surface on the grounds and marked with green traffic cones
• We briefly walked around the outside of the LACMA--very nice and worth a future visit
• Some animatronics 
• Griffith Observatory
• Tesla coil
• Food very good but very expensive
• Beautiful sunset and view
• As we exited, listened to warm up at the Greek Theater ("5 Seconds of Summer with The Aces")
• Learned about radiocarbon dating--it's a dating web site for radioactive C14 looking for the right Oxygen partner to make radioactive CO2

California Vacation 2018 - Day 2

TIMELINE

• 6:00 a.m. Awake
• 7:15 a.m. Breakfast
• 8:00 a.m. Checkout
• 10:45 a.m. The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf #130 in Santa Barbara, for coffee
• 11:55 a.m. Missy's Cupcake Creations in Oxnard
• 2:00 p.m. Early check-in at Friendship Inn
• 5:30 p.m. Gus's World Famous Fried Chicken
• 5:45 p.m. Back at hotel

NOTES

• Gus's:
• Dawn: 2 Piece White, Mac 'n Cheese and beans, Firestone 805 beer
• Kevin: 1/2 chicken, Mac 'n Cheese and beans, greens, unsweetened ice tea
• Dessert: Chocolate chess pie with ice cream
• Missy's:
• Chocolate Chocolate Thunder
• German Chocolate
• Watched Teen Titans and NASA X review of the Soyuz failure

California Vacation 2018 - Day 1

TIMELINE

• 6:00 a.m. Awake
• 7:15 a.m. Drop off cats at VCA Pet Hospital
• 7:45 a.m. Peet's Coffee downtown for coffee and snacks
• 8:15 a.m. Home to retrieve forgotten Anker PowerCore charger
• 9:47 a.m. Rest break at Big Sur River Inn: coffee, snacks
• 12:30 p.m. Arrive Hearst Castle
• 4:30 p.m. Depart Hearst Castle
• 5:30 p.m. Arrive hotel
• 6:15 p.m. Dinner at Rosa's Italian Restaurant: split sjde of broccoli and Pasta California - $16.95 artichoke hearts, shitake mushrooms, sun dried tomatoes in a light cream sauce, penne pasta
• 7:15 p.m. Hot Topic at Pismo Beach Premium Outlets (13th Doctor accessories for Dawn)
• 8:15 p.m. Back at hotel

NOTES

• Landslide at Mud Creek mostly repaired; minor delay
• Weather partly sunny with spots of light mist
• First time for both of us south of Big Sur on Highway 1
• Cambria Scarecrows
• Hearst Castle Neptune Pool filled just four weeks earlier, after repairs lasting for some time