Spelling

Updated: 06 Nov 2009 07:11 am by Ron
Filed: Life in General
Tagged: Deb • Li • spelling

Deb: “How do you spell ‘Ian’?”

Li: “With a pencil…”

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Halloween Pix

Updated: 03 Nov 2009 06:48 am by Ron
Filed: Life in General
Tagged: Halloween • Ian • Li

The world's cutest lady bug (Oct 2009)

As promised, a couple of pictures from Halloween this year. The first is, as you can clearly see, the world’s cutest lady bug! (Or “leggy bug”, somewhat ironically, in Li-speak.) She was really excited about her costume — including the hat with the little antennae — which is always a question, but made it really easy to get her ready to go visit a few of the neighbors’ houses. There were a couple of houses with scary music or where the people answering the door were dressed in scary costumes that threw her off a little bit, but for the most part she did great. We’d been working on getting her to say the “trick or treat!” part of it (“No, you say it, Daddy!”) and after the first house, where she would only whisper it, she got the hang of it…

A couple of hippies that showed up and agreed to cover door-duty on Halloween (Oct 2009)

We also recently found the hippie on the left living in our basement. He and his friend Fi agreed to cover front-door duty for trick-or-treaters, including serenading them accompanied by guitar, as we took the little lady bug on her neighborhood rounds, which worked out well…

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More Assorted Shorts (11/2009)

Updated: 02 Nov 2009 07:06 am by Ron
Filed: Books & Reading • Geek Stuff • Life in General • Linux
Tagged: books • firefox • Halloween • Linux • Movies • Pat Conroy • soccer • ubuntu

More to come on some of these as we get our lives at least marginally back under control as soccer winds down for the fall…

• We’ve got Halloween pix coming; you’ll want to keep an eye out for those in the next couple days!
• On the Linux front, Ubuntu 9.10 is out as of late last week. I pushed one of my older boxes to it with reasonable success. Not much more there to say other than the startup and shutdown times are impressive, even on old hardware. Brown hasn’t done much for me lately.
• The time change is wreaking havoc on our mornings at this point, particularly with Li.
• The first pre-release of Firefox 3.6 is out, but I haven’t had a chance yet to pull it down and give it a try. At least on the surface, the only interesting aspect is the return of some eye candy regarding switching tabs. Also on the browser front, Google Chrome continue to progress, but the continued absence of the ability to control default font sizes on Mac OS X is mystifying.
• Ian wrapped up his high school soccer career with a trip to the state tournament in Boise in late October. Odd to think that’s over and done with; odder to think that I am going to be saying that more and more over the next few months as he works his way through his senior year.
• Done a bit of reading, although little of it was worth noting aside from “South of Broad” by Pat Conroy. I haven’t read anything by him for several years and this was a great reminder of how much I love his writing.
• On the movie front, go see “500 Days of Summer” if you haven’t yet and can still find it in a theater. Best movie we’ve seen in a very long time.

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