Another Song for Our Anniversary

And, of course:

You know what song I just had to include as well



And a special visual treat for both of us, no?




(A whisper in your ear--"Te Amo mucho, Chris"

"Comments on Early Jimi Blog"

When I did my first Jimi Blog in Google Blogger (May 31, 2006, I received a comment on it from someone who said,

Nice idea with this site its better than most of the rubbish I come across.

It was signed Newloghere. If you read carefully, Newloghere, apparently writing without thinking very thoughtfully, is saying that some of the rubbish that he came across was better than my blog. I hope that for months unending until far in the future someone comes along repeatedly and gets his goat, the one that he particularly hates having been "gotten" by someone.

On June 1, 2006, I wrote a post about Darren getting his degree.

Oldtownboys commented Hmm I love the idea behind this website, very unique.

In June, I wrote something about Darren's birthday and bdfytoday said,

Greets to the webmaster of this wonderful site! Keep up the good work. Thanks.

I think that my leg was being pulled in some of these comments. The day I received the owntownboys comment above, I also received the exact same comment from someone else.

Hmmmmm. Maybe this leg-pulling is why I developed gout years later, no?

Darren's Graduation Party at VFW; Jimi "closing in on one years old. Victoria's Mom and Dad (Carol and Abel) and brother Jose and sister Ronnie and her Grandmother.


















Jimi Victorino Campos Hoff almost three years
later, you all.





















































pix: 5/31/06
By Bob 's Wobbly Camera
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September 14, 2008--Jimi Takes Grandma and Grandpa Hoff to the Library ("sort of")

Signs in the Children's Section of the Library

Left picture I took of Chris and right picture Jimi took of me. Not bad for a 3-year old photographer, no? He does use voice instructions from me on how to hold and point the camera and where to keep his fingers. He also wears the strap loop around his right wrist iin case the camera gets away from him, which it did the other day, but it stayed swinging on his arm; my heart attack was "minor."

He is a good photographer, as you can see. I handle his "bad results" the way I handle mine: I delete them immediately

I said above that Jimi took us to the library "sort of" because we had to blackmail him to get him to go. Once he got there, he was a perfect gentleman and seemed to enjoy it, having Chris find and check out books for him and reading to him. Later, he would not admit that he had enjoyed himself, as MAIN his passion is in the realm of video game playing.

We are hoping to convert some of that passion to reading and books and the joy of libraries (and Gramp's favorite buying books). When you see Jimi playingvideo games, he is pretty darn amazing and skillful (he plays adults on the Internet; I don't think they know he is three).

We want him to find time for reading, as well as discovering the joy that it can bring. It really can and does bring joy, joy even deeper I can imagine than the joy of "shooting the bad guys").

Jimi gave Aunt Olga who works at the library a big old bear hug before we left.

Project Playground Performers--Jimi and Gramps!!!

Jimi did great on this balance beam at the "Project Playground" here in Carlsbad. When I tried walking on it, I fell off sooner than immediately. I will "try" to find that .avi video file (Darren took the video; it is "somewhere" on my camera; now where is my camera?) and process it at "Innertube.com"

Jimi loves to view video of himself and the family, often wanting "numerous repeat showings."

As you saw above, Jimi walked across the "balance beam" at Carlsbad's "Project Playground" one time and was returning his second time when he slipped off at the end.

So I tried to see how many I could do and I slipped off right away because I wasn't really ready when I started. Also Darren, who of course wanted his son to win, had spun me around 75 times with my Boston Red Sox hat pulled down over my eyes.

Just when I got up on the apparatus, Darren whispered (which is why you can't hear it, "rattlesnake" and I fell off, lunging forward, almost cracking my noggin on the wooden structures just inches away from where I tumbled off in a high speed twist of uncontrolled velocity.

Jimi, bless his heart, immediately ran over to start to do a new trick so that it looked like I meant to do that. If you study the video closely, you can see that I am really throwing myself off on purpose in order to stroke Jimi's ego.

That is Darren encouraging me by laughing in the background of the video.

I do want to point out that there is 58 years of age difference between Jimi and I and that I have been unbalanced since the late 1960s, but rest assured, I would never make any excuses. I did what I had to do, as I wasn't capable of any other alternative. Clearly, being the stuntman for Chuck Norris for all those decades, I expected more of myself.

I think that the "leaking" of this video is ultimately what kept me off the U.S. Olympic team, but don't you think that Jimi should have made it?

"I Do Best What I Do Best"

"I do best what I do best."

That's what Jimi repeats several times a day now and he has been doing it for a while.

I finally asked him, "where did you learn that Jimi?"

He replied, "from my teacher."

"Which teacher?" I asked.

"From my school--Shining Stars."

When I asked for confirmation he said no, not Shining Stars. But then said something that sounded like it to me, but I wasn't wearing my hearing aid at the time.

When he says this, he reminds me of a very small motivational speaker. I love to hear him say it.



Now I am teaching him to point to his own head and to say, "When I think best," and then point to his own mouth and say, "I talk best." This is a lesson that while I have known it for years, I still struggle to apply on a daily basis.
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Second Prize Winner will receive from Bob Hoff, former Park Historian, "free directions to the caverns."

Hurry; if you think too much about the details of this contest, you may not enter after all.

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Jimi the "Balancer"















Father and Son

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