Archive for 2008

Just a brief check in..

Wednesday, June 25th, 2008

Laura and I are still around, still waiting, and still wondering if the process will ever speed up.

In the meantime, we are pursuing other adventures.  We figure that instead of watching the web for news, and counting the ticks on the clock that we would do some of the things that we won’t be as able to do when we have a little one in our lives.

I have taken back to writing again, although I am still a little gun shy about digging up the old novel to get that going again, but I found a great site that lets me exercise my writing in small bursts.  It is called [ Ficlets ] and it limits you to writing a 1046 character story.  You can add prequels or sequels to your stories, as can other ficlet authors, which makes for some interesting stories.

I have also become a full-fledged blogger over at [ For the Love of Geeks ].  It is quickly becoming a highly trafficked site and a full-time job in itself.

We will be in Palm Springs this next weekend (Fourth of July), soaking in the sun, and relaxing by the pool.

Laura is pursuing a career in crafts, and doing her volunteer work , she is in marathon mode for that this summer, so I doubt I will see much of her during the day.

So that is pretty much it for the time being …

Hopefully news will come soon

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Tempus Fugit..

Monday, April 28th, 2008

Yep, you may have forgotten about us, but we have not forgotten about you. ;)

Time does fly, and many months have gone by.  CCAA is up to January 9th, 2006.  As a reminder, we are June 27th 2006.

So…  another three years or so…

See you in a few months.  In the meantime, you can read me at [ For the love of Geeks ].

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15 years ago… on the 13th…

Sunday, February 17th, 2008

Last night we celebrated our 15 wedding anniversary … yep 15 years ago this geek moved out of his parents basement, sold off his star wars toys and got hitched…

Since then, I have been trying to reclaim all my star wars toys… ;)

We had the party in our newly finished backyard… grilling, bonfire, good friends and good food and drink.

Here are some pics for your enjoyment.

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The beautiful cake… it was very nice, until the party degenerated into a cake fight at about 2 in the morning… we were sober…. sort of.. LOL

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Us cutting the cake… apparently you have to do that at your wedding and any anniversary divisible by five.

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My lovely wife , and my sister … respectively. Behind them is the bar… see the part about the cake fight.. LOL

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This is Jen… without Jen, the party would have consisted of alot of beer… and some hot dogs… Thanks to Jen, the party actually had a theme, and people actually had a good time… Of course, Jen is the one that started the cake fight… but that is why we love her. ;)

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Here is a really bad picture of the fire… but it was all I had.. and it was starting to die down…

It was a fun night…

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It’s Disneyland for geeks…

Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008

I am referring to MacWorld.

MacWorld is a yearly conference / expo where all things Mac (apple) computers are brought out and paraded for all to see, drool and purchase… oh wait, scratch purchase, since no one was selling anything this year …. good for the pocketbook, but bad for geek in me.

I was also a little disappointed with the keynote announcement of the MacBook Air. Yeah, it is the smallest notebook on the market, yeah it is a new Mac product, and yeah it is pretty dang cool… BUT… 1800.00 for the low end model… Pass.

During the Keynote address when Mr. Jobs was speaking about this new product, I kept thinking that this would be a great “low-end” laptop that could finally compete with the under 1000.00 laptop market. Instead it ended up being their most expensive laptop.

The Apple TV take two announcement was far more exciting for me… and I am looking forward to having a small little white box attached to my TV to bring me hours and hours of tv enjoyment.

MacWorld had a “meet and greet” which also included a concert by Devo… that was great! I have been a long time fan of Devo, but I have to admit it was kind of sad seeing them old and overweight still trying to be the same 80’s techno band they were…

The highlight of the trip was the purchase of my new and shiny iPhone…. still playing with it.

Anyway, spent a week in San Francisco, saw some old friends, learned a lot and had a great time.

Here are some pics for your enjoyment (all taken with my iPhone) :

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