Newsletter Tri Valley SIR 34

March 2021

Bill Staack 
Big Sir
General COVID19 Information for Alameda County

“March is such a fickle month.
It is the seam between winter and spring—though seam suggests an even hem, and March is more like a rough line of stitches sewn by an unsteady hand, swinging wildly between January gusts and June greens. You don’t know what you’ll find, until you step outside.
Estele used to call these the restless days, when the warmer-blooded gods began to stir, and the cold ones began to settle. When dreamers were most prone to bad ideas, and wanderers were likely to get lost.”
― V. E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
 
“The almond blossom from the tree has gone, to be replaced by new green shoots. It smells of spring, and mown grass, and tilled earth from the fields beyond. Now is the month of Germinal in the Republican calendar: the month of hyacinth, and bees, and violet, and primrose. It is also the windy month; the month of new beginnings, and I have never felt it so strongly as I feel it now: that sense of possibility; that irresistible lightness.”
― Joanne Harris, The Strawberry Thief
 


Bill Junge
Little  SIR
An attorney arrived home late, after a very tough day trying to get a stay of execution.  His last minute plea for clemency to the governor had failed and he was feeling worn out and depressed.
 
As soon as he walked through the door at home, his wife started on him about ,'What time of night to be getting home is this? Where have you been? Dinner is cold and I'm not reheating it’. 
And on and on and on.  Too shattered to play his usual role in this familiar ritual, he poured himself a shot of whiskey and headed off for a long hot soak in the bathtub, pursued by the predictable sarcastic remarks as he dragged himself up the stairs.
 
While he was in the bath, the phone rang. 
The wife answered and was told that her husband's client, James Wright, had been granted a stay of execution after all.    Wright would not be hanged tonight.  Finally realizing what a terrible day he must have had, she decided to go upstairs and give him the good news.  As she opened the bathroom door, she was greeted by the sight of her husband, bent over naked, drying his legs and feet.
 
'They're not hanging Wright tonight,' she said.
 
He whirled around and screamed.....
'FOR THE LOVE OF GOD WOMAN, DON'T YOU EVER STOP?'

Treasurer's Report
Tom Reif
I know many of you are anxious to make your dues payments for 2021. However, the board has decided to not collect dues until we actually start meetings so put your checkbook away for awhile.
Membership 
Don Bartel
New Members None
Current Membership 149
Personal Technology User Group December Zoom Session

December Board Meeting
No SIR 34 activities are approved until SIP is lifted

If you have any Zoom or other photos you'd like to share please email them to rsmall70@comcast.net.  Be cool to have some photos from a few online card games or other activities.  Thanks