We’ve been awfully busy/sick lately and just haven’t had much time to post… besides, when you’re sick/busy, there’s nothing much really to tell. I offloaded my cellphone photos tonight and discovered I had a few leftovers from Taiwan. This was one of my favorites. As we were waiting in the airport terminal, in the food … Read more
You see? It really is for the kids. When I came home today Michelle was all wound up, wanting to decorate the Christmas tree. We had to make her take a nap she was so jittery in anticipation. All the while it was being decorated she’d look at each new decoration, or each change in … Read more
OK, so I’ve never really come up with a good, non-religious name for the good old fashioned Christmas tree. “Holiday Tree” just doesn’t have much pizzazz. Did you realize that Christmas Trees are really not all that old? The first known one in England was Queen Victoria’s. In fact, that whole Dickensian Christmas thing was … Read more
It’s the end of the month and that means my flickr upload allotment will roll over on the first of December, so I’m cramming as many of the 300+ remaining photos from my Taiwan trip onto Flickr as I can tonight. With the new camera I’m generally getting about 5 photos per 1% allotment of … Read more
I bought the re-mastered DVDs of the original King Kong, Son of Kong and Mighty Joe Young tonight. That’s something I’ve been looking forward to ever since the announced Peter Jackson’s re-make of Kong. (Sometimes that’s the best part about re-makes, the originals finally get released on DVD! Although, in this case, I haven’t yet … Read more
If I’ve not mentioned it, although I call my wife Irene, her actual given name is “Chu-Wan”, romanized from the original Chinese using the Wade-Giles romanization system. Someone born in China today with the same name would have it spelled “Zhuwan” using the Pinyin romanization system. The fact is, when spoken in Chinese, to my … Read more
‘Tis the season for guessing what’s coming at Macworld Expo in January. Despite the fact that I just bought an iBook (and love it) I’m intrigued by the rumors that Apple will be refreshing the iBooks first with Intel processors. I wouldn’t be the first to jump ship to get one, but it will be … Read more
Today was my 41st birthday. It was pretty much like any other day, except for being taken out to eat and having pie. This one just wasn’t a milestone birthday. Michelle was very happy about it being my birthday. Actually, she just wanted pie. Why the picture of the cactus? We went hiking in Dreamy … Read more
One of my favorite places to eat chicken is Chick-Fil-A. Generally, my only real complaint with them is that they’re run by fanatics and so they’re closed on Sundays. I think Sunday is a prime chicken-eating day, but it’s their revenue to loose, I suppose. However, today, they’ve probably lost a customer. Ever year, for … Read more
The whole family awoke Friday morning sometime around 3:30AM. Since none of us were sleepy and we were all hungry, we headed off to the nearest IHOP for breakfast. On the way, we passed Park Central Mall and in the parking lot was an example of one of Phoenix’s new light rail cars. I was … Read more