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I know all about me

Thu, 31 Dec 2009 10:13:40 -0800

. . . and it's not good. Not good at all.

It's New Year's Eve tonight. You all know what that means!

This vacation is getting a bit long in the tooth. We're ready to get back to our regularly scheduled routine. It feels like more than a month since we picked up our Naginatas or had a full day's worth of work to finish or played video games with Steven (not that I haven't been keeping myself occupied with Modern Warfare 2).

I suspect few of you are interested in knowing how my year went. I don't blame you. Instead I'll provide you statistics for my posting:

30 text posts (22 of which were for the Marathon)
25 photo albums
1,715 photos in the albums (okay, so we're not good at culling photos)
210 Horribles doodled this year
210 Horribles posted this year (not sure how that worked out so perfectly)
75 Horribles left unposted in my queue
1 story written (if we're generous and count my Marathon offering as a story)

What do we learn from these statistics? I spend lots of time doodling, and not enough time writing. But I already knew that.

"You've been quiet lately"

Wed, 30 Dec 2009 09:10:52 -0800

Ugh. This has been sitting at the top of my queue for quite a while. It was time I threw it out there and moved on tomorrow. I doodled this based on a decent photograph we had taken in Victoria. Not sure what happened in translation. Probably laziness and a good enough attitude.

The week crawls closer to the New Years. I'm looking forward to it.

What are all these pixels for?

Tue, 29 Dec 2009 13:48:25 -0800

The Julies thinks my Horribles backlog is too large. She recommended more Horribles, so here's a Tuesday post. I started my computer-aided Chinese lessons again. I'm still not sure why 'elephant' makes it into the early part of the vocabularly list.

Don't mention the wolves

Mon, 28 Dec 2009 09:41:49 -0800

We watched Avatar on Christmas Eve after we participated in the rest of a traditional Jewish Christmas by eating at a (vegetarian) Chinese restaurant. I ended up getting sick probably from a cold virus mixed with the 3D effects and a very nasty Avocado milkshake. Thinking about Chinese food now makes me nauseous, which is hard on the Julies.

Avatar is a beautifully rendered movie. I wish I could say the same for its characters and story. There will one day be a movie about a benevolent corporation that is trying to save the Earth from runaway Nature and the do-gooders who try to protect her by deifying her. Oh and there will be military people who are, like, real people who don&#8217t want to fight just because they can, but actually care about their soldiers and civilians. And there won&#8217t be any giant robots in this movie. Or flying blue people.

Otherwise the weekend was nice and long. We finally took the dogs out of the house thanks to the sun and mild temperature.

It's not summer yet!

Fri, 25 Dec 2009 12:12:40 -0800

I woke with a headache and sore throat this morning. I'm hoping the sunny sky and my morning (okay, late afternoon) tea will help get over it.

Sorry for the ugly doodle. I had such high hopes for the heat waves. Those hopes were obviously dashed.

"They made me this happy"

Wed, 23 Dec 2009 09:20:25 -0800

Thanks for all the birthday wishes!

We found a great vegetarian Taiwanese place last night in Kirkland: Happy Cafe. They have vegetarian pork buns that taste like pork buns! We haven't had pork buns in quite a while. Julie bought a whole package to make at home (fun fact: pork buns taste better when microwaved than steamed).

Angelina's First Birthday in Dallas

Tue, 22 Dec 2009 09:43:54 -0800

Photos: 169

"They're listening to our every word"

Mon, 21 Dec 2009 08:51:44 -0800

We're leaving from Dallas in a few hours after our long weekend visiting Julie's family. The weather has been sunny and warm--A nice break from the strange Seattle weather. (Not as strange as that East Coast storm!)

I thought of writing something pithy for my birthday. Then I remembered I don't write anymore, and besides, I haven't had any coffee today which means I can't write even if I still did.

Enjoy Mr. Conspiracy. He's my new favorite Horrible.

"Knowing the future and changing the future are two different animals"

Thu, 17 Dec 2009 10:05:32 -0800

Bonus Horrible! Actually, we're leaving for Dallas tomorrow through Monday, and I've been prolific in doodling. I decided to post this a bit early so you wouldn't miss out during the weekend. Enjoy!

Happy Chanukah!

Wed, 16 Dec 2009 10:29:42 -0800

By request (hi, Kelly and Kelly's kids!). I particularly like how the dogs look. They're very cute if a bit smelly.

The Seattle winter weather has returned: rainy and fifties. Most of the icicles have melted on our fountain except for the bottom bowl, which is still partly frozen. I turned on the pump this morning but nothing happened. I'm hoping that it works once it completely melts. Otherwise I'll have to put on my toolbelt and start afixing. Or call someone. Definitely the latter.

You can always use more explosions

Mon, 14 Dec 2009 09:57:04 -0800

It's above freezing today! Finally.

I don't know why I thought I could do it

Fri, 11 Dec 2009 10:11:04 -0800

A fitting Friday Horrible. This was the last in the line of Betrothed, my failed attempt at a video game. As you can see it ended in abject failure. I'm used to it.

For those tracking the Seattle weather at home, it will get into the high forties next week. It looks like we won't get any snow. I did doodle a couple of snow Horribles just in case.

Don't forget, tonight is part deux of Julie's choral concert.

The skunkworks

Wed, 09 Dec 2009 09:40:17 -0800

Here's my favorite Horrible from my secret project. That was me during the peak of my work. (It all went downhill from here.)

The cold continues. Our fountain completely froze over. I kept it running because I liked the icicles falling from the lion's heads. I turned it off this morning to stop the pump from burning out.

I should be doing something

Mon, 07 Dec 2009 08:59:38 -0800

My brain is not yet working this Monday morning.

Mom visits Seattle

Sun, 06 Dec 2009 20:19:10 -0800

Photos: 12