Andrea and Richard

Proud Republican and supporter of John McCain and Sarah Palin.

…to be continued.

We are now exactly one month away from our very first year as a married couple! It still only feels like yesterday when we stressed trying to figure out the flowers in order, get the cake ordered, the tux and dresses are rented, etc. And it only feels like yesterday when we were enjoying our honeymoon on the vast beauties of one of Hawaii’s island, Kauai. There is still a lot for us to get done, but so far this year has been a good year.

Andrea and Richard at the Half Moon Bay Ritz Carlton

We’re almost there. Two more months and we’ll be celebrating our very first year as a married couple. It’s quite exciting, we can’t wait. Our cruise is booked, we’ve still working on getting house, and all-in-all things are going as best as can be expected.

With the whole State debacle where Governor Schwarzenegger signed the executive order cutting all State worker’s pay to the Federal minimum wage of $6.55 an hour with the layoff scares in the City and County of San Francisco. As some of you know, Andrea works for the State and I work for San Francisco County. In Andrea’s situation, the $6.55 an hour most likely won’t take effect because: 1) John Chiang (the State Controller) has flat said, and is, refusing to follow through with the executive order; 2) the budget is to be signed any day now; and 3) The time it would take for the Controller’s office to implement the $6.55 would make it not worthwhile because by the time the systems are all switched to pay everyone $6.55, the budget will be signed and then the pays will have to be readjusted to the norm. It is a shame for the 10,000 or more seasonal and temporary State workers who have lost their jobs.

In the City and County of San Francisco, Mayor Gavin Newsom has proposed in his budget a layoff of 1,085 jobs, of which 450 are actual filled jobs. The attorneys (in the Public Defender’s, the District Attorney’s, and City Attorney’s offices) all voted to take a 2% temporary pay cut in lieu of any layoffs. My Union saw the lost of 19 professional technical and engineers laid off, some of which were middle management.

These are definitely some scary times. But on a lighter note, today Stripes gets her shots to keep her nice and healthy. Her poor little bum :(.

Some of you guys might have noticed some small subtle changes to the design around here. Since I recently upgraded our WordPress to the latest version, 2.6, I’m making some changes in our Andrea and Richard theme to reflect the new features of WordPress 2.6, one of them being the inclusion of built in galleries. You’ll notice these gallery boxes that will appear from time to time that look like:

By clicking on the thumbnail or the title, you’ll be taken into the album for that gallery set. Provided that comments are turned on, you can also comment to the entire album as a whole or to individual images. Also feel free to browse through past archives because I’ll be uploading old albums as time permits. You can also directly access all the galleries by visiting: http://andreaandrichard.com/category/gallery.

Also you may have noticed that the navigation menu has been missing for some time now. I’m working on that glitch and it should be back up soon.