This November with Andy, 2016

Dec 5, 20167 min read

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Published: Dec 5, 2016

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Exercise with Andy

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Blast the Belly Fat (Arcadia Community Center)

TONE YOUR CORE and TIGHTEN YOUR ABS! We will use Cardio Dance, Belly Dancing, Bollywood, Hip-Hop, Salsa, and other ethnic dance styles to work those flabby core sections and get a great workout during one solid hour of cardio work! All dances are choreographed to concentrate on strengthening your core. Work off that holiday muffin-top. Move, gyrate, shimmy and you won't even know you are working-out. During the last quarter of each class, you will go down to the floor on your mat to work your core midsection even more! Bring electrolyte-water, yoga-mat, towel (You will sweat — A LOT) and belly-dance belt if you have one. For maximum benefit, refrain from eating fatty foods such as hamburgers or fried foods eight hours prior to the workout.

Mondays:
8:00-9:00pm class January 9 through March 20. Arcadia Community Center 365 Campus Drive, $70.00 for 12 weeks

Saturdays:
9:00-10:00am class January 14 through March 25. Dana Gym, 1401 S. First Ave. $76.00 for 11 weeks

Class listed under: Katalina, taught by Andy Serrano

Register on-line: secure.rec1.com/CA/city-of-arcadia/catalog
Click: Exercise (Adult)

Andy & Barbara at the Symphony

Barbara and I have permanent front-row center seats at the Symphony and Joyce Yang's performance of Rachmaninoff's Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, reminded us of why this seat is such a treat. www.youtube.com/watch?v=7U4bHt…

35^th Anniversary

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November 27, marked 35 years since Barbara and I tied the knot. It's still going strong. I think the Force is with us.

Trump

I was horrified when Trump was elected President of the USA. Although Hillary Clinton had two million more votes than Trump, the racists, bigots, and suckers who swallowed the Right Wing propaganda spewed by Alt-Right Fascist/Nazi web sites convinced the gullible, ill-informed people, in the rural farm states to vote for Trump. This caused an Electoral College majority. This is a low-point for America. I am ashamed of being American, but happy I live in Liberal California. And, quite frankly, if you are offended by this message, please take me off your watch list. I do not want Deplorables to have any association with me or my art.

Chola and Andy and Legs

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Before heading to the gym, I was walking to an ATM machine on York in Highland Park to get money for my tailor and Barbara's golf lessons when I heard someone walking quickly toward me from behind. A young woman's voice said to me, "Yo, hey dude" a couple of times. I turned around and it was a cute rotund chola (Hispanic gang-member associate) with a huge gang tattoo on her neck. I stopped and faced her in puzzlement. She said, with her hands flipping sideways in a stereotype cholla fashion, "Hey man. Howdya did you get dem legs? Biking? Hiking?" I told her I hike and work out with Zumba and dance. She began asking me how to lose weight and get better legs. I told her, "Take some scissors to your tortillas and sweet bread and cut them in half and eat cheese and avocado between meals to kill your appetite." She said, "Thanks dude. Ya know. That's gonna be hard. I love sweet bread and tortillas." She rubbed her belly. I reassured her that eating an ounce of cheese or an avocado slice between meals will help take the sting away. As she was about to walk away, she bent down and took another look, "Damn dude. A woman would kill for those pins. Later man." it was pretty funny. (Stock photo of a Cholla.)

Wordament

When Barbara and I have a spare moment, we sometimes play Wordament on the net. You play against hundreds of other people. It's like Scrabble but hundreds of times faster.

Stock Trading Program Complaint

One November morning, I was I was tormenting the computer programmers at Merrill-Lynch stock trading desk. I told them their new improved trading assistant, market analyzer, is worse than useless. I told them that some greedy programmer must have gone running with his creation to management and swiftly got his bonus before any clients actually tried to use it. And I said, to make it worse, you have to take 10 separate steps just to launch the program and it runs like something that ran on a PC before Windows was invented. All he could do was laugh and apologize. He thanked me for being a good sport. This is how I make most of my income.

Tess and Andy