Walking from the Ferry Building to Caltrain and back this week, I saw this ship at Pier 30/32. Was trying to figure out what kind of ship it is - lots of ships in the Bay for Fleet Week. It's the newly commissioned (as of Alani's birthday!) USS America ( Read more... )

Last weekend, I took da kidlets to their first con - Convolution in Burlingame. They were slightly underwhelmed... The main reason I was going was to see andpuffThey liked the Dealers' Room (three t-shirts, two ray guns, one floppy hat) and the Art Gallery (Kyle fell in love with a print that cleaned out his allowance bank ( Read more... )

I'm way behind in posting...

Thursday, February 13th, me, my sisters and da kidlets were going to see Imagine Dragons in concert at SAP (aka HP Pavillion). This was one of the few things that Alani wanted for her birthday last October. Guess what happened during PE that morning? Alani got smacked in the face with a volleyball. "Slight ( Read more... )

Alani graduated from Otis Elementary School. Big bad 5th grader is now back to the bottom of the ladder and will be starting Lincoln Middle School as a 6th grader in September ( Read more... )

Eeyore II got new shoes today. Odometer read 215,703. Last set of tires bought in May, 2009 ( Read more... )

Geez, I am so behind in posting. RL has gotten in the way, big time. I still haven't finished my con report from WorldCon - and that was in AUGUST ( Read more... )

Happy 12th Birthday, Keoki-chan!!!

Wishing you joy!

Love & hugs,
Auntie Deb

Oh yeah, I'm fried ( Read more... )

Day started out with Keoki-chan calling me at EXACTLY 8am to ask if I wanted to go to breakfast (aka take THEM out for breakfast). He knows that he's not supposed to call me before 8am, so he's been timing it just so ( Read more... )

Got Eeyore II back from the dealership. Air Conditioning problem fixed with a simple recharge, though they did add some dye to the freon so that they could possibly track a leak problem. Cost including 5K maintenance (going on vacation next month and all) just over $300. YAY! Froze all the way home yesterday.

So, Slither at the Museum was a ( Read more... )