Firecrackers

Pickled spicy carrots.

Nice sunset

It was 95 today. A bit too hot for me, but now it's cooler and there is a nice sunset.

Free HDMI cable!

Buy a $1000 tv, get a $5 cable.

Poor laptop

My laptop battery developed a little chip/crack in an unfortunate spot - where the softest part of my wrist hits it. Anyway the replacement batteries appear to have issues holding a charge, so I took my chipped one back and put a little bandaid on it so I don't look like I'm trying to commit suicide.

Squishing bugs

Drew and Van squish bugs on Rose's iphone.

Ready to eat

Drew and Aviva get ready for a meal.

Free Ikea breakfast

I may feel a bit ill now, but it was worth it.

Cookies and milk

Christmas socks

Here we are in April, and Drew still enjoys wearing Christmas socks, even though they clash with everything. Maybe he's setting trends.

Crucio!

Drew and Van practice their curses on park trees.

Turtle rock

If you look very closely, you can see a baby turtle perched on the back of one of the adults.

The lizard snare

Drew peeks through the hole of one of my home-made lizard snares. 

Evan

Brave Drew

That's about as close as he wanted to get.

Running Wolf for mayor

If rock stars can have stage names, why not politicians? At least I hope it's a stage name.

The perils of technology dependence

Our dentist has toys all over, from computers instead of paper for getting histories to capturing signatures. And I'm sitting here, waiting to have another set of molds of my teeth taken for my bite guard. My fourth. Apparently my jaw is very active at night. Anyway, they took one set but the dentist was utterly unable to get it to fit. So this is take two. If this one doesn't work, I'm going back to my dentist in Berkeley who fitted my last three.

Rich claims that they have TV goggles that they let him wear with some headphones and watch a movie while they were doing something to him. I've never been offered those. They have a huge lcd hanging ten feet above the lobby at an uncomfortable height to watch anything and another one in a kids area near the lounge which is just ridiculous looking. They always have music playing, which I suppose is nice, but...it's like my dentist's office is trying to be cool, and I just want them to do a good job!

Back to the technology dependence - their software had a glitch this morning and six patients were sitting out in the lobby, waiting for procedures that couldn't be performed until we could sign consents which we couldn't do because the system wouldn't let us digitally sign. And for some reason a signature on a piece of paper wasn't an option. So we sat...and waited until they rebooted their entire system. Another ten minutes. None of us in the lobby were happy.

Egg bread

Go!

The egg hunt in Berkeley was more of a mad candy dash. Everyone lined up and jumped on the candy when they said go, though half of the kids jumped the gun. It was all over in about 10 seconds and ended in tears for half of the participants. The joys of Easter.

Drew's first music game

This is an uber high tech piano.

Ready, set...