Here is a link to the photos from the retirement festivities for Vint Cerf at Sony studios ( Read more... )

This started as a comment in a friends LJ and then it took on a life of its own. I have posted it here with additional thoughts for my friends to read ( Read more... )

Damn...

It went out again tonight. Now I have to sort through hundreds of the saved files because when I try to open them, I get I/O error messages. It came back on tonight, but too late for me to do anything now. Gotta set the alarm clock for work!

Whew, three times yesterday the power was gone.... once as I was getting ready for work it was down maybe a minute ( Read more... )

Last Saturday I participated in the annual Family Astronomy Day for the local astronomical society ( Read more... )

It was nice celebrating the spring holidays the past few weeks with family and friends ( Read more... )

The wampa was very popular at the museum exhibit yesterday. Very few kids were scared by him. Most of the parents wanted the children to pose next to him. And only a few people called him Chewbacca. I went out twice in costume, and was really glad I had the cooling vest. I have two sets of cold packs, so I can rotate them, and recharge the packs to ( Read more... )

My new costume arrived today ( Read more... )

Whew.. seems like I finally found my dustcap for the Renn Faire costume. I knew it was in the house, and it fell behind several boxes and folders of important documents in my bedroom closet. That's the good news... I found it. Unfortunately I needed it for Friday. I was going to wear it for Crazy Hat day. Instead I wore my Plan 2 - Disney Mad ( Read more... )

This weekend is kinda quiet. I'll try to do a little catch up with the usual routine.

Good news is I'm down 41 lbs. so far. The bad news is I'm only losing one pound a week. At this rate it will take me over two months to reach my goal. Oh, well. at least I'm still making progress, so that's a good thing.

Happy Purim to those who celebrate it!