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A short brief of what I have done in the last 7 days (Hint:Not much)

Hung out with some babies (and their parents):

Donned a Wrestling Mask (Fun Fact: I was voted most likely to be a American Gladiator in High school):

Was lucky enough to meet up with some of the extended family:

And the Grand Project, capturing, digitizing and editing about 30 hours of old Hoffman Home  Movies:

Ah, another Halloween has come and passed.

Kate went as Juno, from the movie Juno.  I must say she did a pretty good job, proof:

For those that want to know how to fake your own full term pregnancy, please consult these photos:

Note the stitched on button, simulating an outtie belly button.

I of course sat in the office all day doing end of the month reports and working.  Spoooooooky.

Here is a reminder of a costume I had has a kid, which was later stolen by for a movie picture film.

Shark Costume

PS. Hey Science Guys!  How about figuring out what gene makes drunk girls yell “Whooooo!” until 4 AM for no reason and surpressing it….or something.

PPS. Micheal Phelps costumes? Really?  C’mon.

Whilst I was off in Oakharbor at an Acronym Conference, Kate stayed closer to home and had fun.

Behold! Photos Paula’s birthday party:

Sidenote: Kate is getting really great with her new camera.

This is pretty much what my weekend looked like:

PS If you go walking at night with 6 guys on Highway 20, passing cars will yell at you as drive by.  I blame Jeff’s provocative dress.

Here is a sentence I never thought I would utter “I had a business trip in Yakima”.  Not that I have anything against Yakima, but I just never expected to need to head there.

This week I did in fact need to go and was lucky enough to get to spend some time with my grand-parents Joe and Doe.

Before dinner I checked out Joe’s amazing wooden model of an Ercoupe Airplane.  Each little part made by hand, without instructions, all from wood.  The steering wheels turn the flaps (or whatever those things are called), the landing gears have little wooden shock absorbs that move, it is an amazing model.

Generally speaking, my family is chocked full of creative folks, my grandpa does this (and used to rebuild the real thing), I have an uncles who either designing adverting or building a plane in garage, cousins who dance and draw.  This could be biggest indicator I was switched a birth.  Somewhere this is an engineer in a family full of really attractive people trying to figure how he fits in.

As part of the trip I went to Richland, Washington. Not much to say…except this little riddle. What is a SMORGY?

Grandpa’s 81st Birthday along with Karen and Steph’s 29th birthdays.

Good times indeed.

Slideshow:

Also, blocks are probably the coolest toys ever.

Remember last year’s video, well here it is

This is probably the best musical ever.  An evil villain is the main character (played by Neil Patrick-Harris) and written by Josh Whedon.  Three Acts of amazingness.  Below, find Act One.  The rest of Dr Horrible can be found at Hulu.

This about the 4th revision to the look of the site in 48 hours, having trouble getting what I want. Le Sigh, as the french would say.

Here are some photos:

Today I ordered an early christmas present, which is great.  Shiny new monitor, decided to go with Dell’s very slick new model. This is a big deal as I hate spending money. Yet, this little wonder will improve my life sufficiently to make worthwhile.

Anyways, about an hour later I get an email that I need to update my credit card.  Turns out, it can’t be done.

After bouncing around to about 10 reps and a lot of yelling my order number into automated systems, I ended up canceling my order. If you can’t even collect my billing information…how can you make a decent monitor?  Seriously.

Chances are I will eventually order this thing again when my patience shield has regenerated.

Ever call Apple?  One number, phone rings a few times a rep answers that knows their stuff.  That and their website allows to update items, cancel them or add to them.  Don’t all commerce site support this now?
Update: Looked on eBay, 20% less, free shipping and much faster delivery (in theory). Hurray.

Quick snap shot of right now, feverishly pounding away at work (excluding of course the time I have spent typing this brief note), watching cars go by on Olive, listening to The Streets, A Grand Don’t Come For Free (the greatest album ever).
Kate is tending to her facebook, skies are a uniform grey until they smoosh up against the Olympics (which I can see from where I am sitting).  Looking forward to fall getting going, God’s season.

General Update:
Work=Great
Kate>Great
House is out of the equation until we find one that doesn’t come with “Surprising Structural Issues” in the description.

Dropped the fancy, image oriented format and rolled the site back to the tried and true Black and White

Thinking of dropping some more videos with specifics, on account of me being much more of talker than a writer. Stay tuned, friends.

While Kate was working on her lesson plan for teaching at work (some gibber jabber about hair color) I tossed together some videos on what I thought was “mission critical” tips for stylists.

Lesson One:

Lesson Two:

Hey! I named myself!