I took a day off from moving yesterday (more or less) and played (and lost) a couple of rounds of (FR)isbee g(OLF) with Matt (pictured), (and happy birthday!). There’s the record for parentheses in a single sentence broken. “Sport” continued on the playstation in the evening and we investigated a couple of local pubs, but one was too full and too bright and the other was too loud so we adjourned back to the house and watched Futurama.
Sita’s back today after her Sonoma trip and it sounds like a good place for a photo expedition one of these days. Misty valleys of vineyards and I’m making a list of more stuff to buy… a multiregion DVD player and wireless router top the list.
Click away for the kind of quality news coverage we’ve come to expect from the Taunton Gazette… EDIT: I checked the link and they’d changed it from a story about a ghost haunting a Wellington couple to a tragic one about a baby dying. Really sorry about that. I thought the link was static.
Just came back from a nice moonlit walk along the beach with young sita and the mutt. Well happy about the time change even though I desperately needed that extra hour last sunday. I’ve also just added a few random photos to my Flickr account to try out the upload program. Which you’re invited to browse through…
Just received these lovely pix of Bethan and Ali’s new puppy, Jed {{popup jedthedog2.jpg jedthedog2 900×600}}jedthedog2 {{popup jedthedog1.jpg jedthedog1 508×508}}jedthedog1 {{popup jedthedog3.jpg jedthedog3 900×600}}jedthedog3 In other news, hot tubs rock… am feeling a little cloudy today, monica surprised us with a visit this morning and went for breakfast downtown, and we’re off to a Hindu wedding with horses and everything this afternoon…
I used to be vegetarian, but those days are long gone. The BBQ’s back in action in our back garden, we brought it out of hibernation when bert and his dad, David, arrived last saturday. Tasty. I’m going to use Flickr to host my pictures for a while and talking of which, I have one more Pro account to give away. I signed up before they got taken over by Yahoo and slashed their prices and increased their services, so they’re giving me 2 free accounts. I’ve offered one to me Dad, still waiting for him to accept. The other’s for the next guest mappee to add themself. Don’t forget to include your email address. If you’re already on there, just email me asking nicely. First come, first served.
Fruitful, sleepy day today. Am now 95% officially a US permanent resident, just have to wait for me green card to arrive. They stamped me passport in the meantime. It’s a much more efficient system now, instead of queuing up at 5am and hoping to get in, they’ve got an automated online appt system. I was in and out within 15 minutes. It would have been less but I had to go back to the car to leave my PDA there cos it can take photos which could be disastrous for homeland security apparently.
anyroad, below is a 9.5 second file of Monday evening in Ciao bella with Bert, his Dad, Sita and me. In the clip it’s just bert looking suspicious then the camera panning up to see the ring of redwoods which the outside dining area’s in. It’s a bit dark and as ever, dial up users may feel a little dissappointed. Bert and co headed south yesterday, you may see them keeping well within the speed limit in one of the following places in the next few days: Monterey, Big Sur, Hearst Castle, Santa Barbara, L.A., Palm Springs, Las Vegas. It was grand to see them, I just wish I could have taken some time of work to spend relaxing with them. But that will come soon. He blogged cryptically…
In other news, I’ve joined BritBlog.com. So if you’ve clicked through from there, then cheers. I have a guestbook you know… It’s been fun skimming through other UK peeps’ blogs.
And finally, I found a fantastic program online where you upload a photo, and it delivers you a rasterized version in as many sheets of paper as you want that you then assemble into a full size poster. Klem’s poster fell down, but pictured below is Sita in front of Lulu’s makeshift shrine:
