“Gotcha” Day: Can it really have been eight years ago today that we were in Nanchang, Jiangxi, China and Li finally came into our lives in one of the most overwhelming, emotional days of our lives?
Statuses
A New Year
2015 is now behind us; 2016 stretches out before us… Happy New Year!
I’m hoping that 2016 is a little less “interesting”, actually, than its predecessor. It’s definitely off to a chilly start…
A New Hope
We’ve started: We watched the first half of Star Wars IV yesterday with Li for the first time. The Millenium Falcon just got pulled into the Death Star after coming out of light speed only to find that Alderaan had been obliterated by the Empire. I’d forgotten how bad the movie is: bad acting, bad dialog, bad effects, and unfortunately we’re watching the version that Mr. Lucas “added” stuff to. I’d also forgotten how many iconic dialog lines came out of this first movie, too. Li loves it…
Sliding…
Sliding toward beach-mode… in a couple days, we will head west for a week on the Oregon coast.
Homemade Coldbrew
We did our first homemade coldbrew coffee yesterday, and it was sort of a life-changing event. Second batch is filtering this morning as I write this…