What a fantastic day. Gorgeous weather for Oaklavia. Team LexiMonkey was equipped with two bubble machines and 320 ounces of fruit-scented bubble solution, as Pirate mentioned (although we only brought one 80-ounce bottle due to weight - a slight underestimate, which we remedied by stopping by the Walgreens at Broadway & 14th to drop $3 on another ( Read more... )

Wow, what a fantastic day yesterday was!

After doing 3.5 miles on our morning training run (details to follow; need to catch up on my training log), Pirate and I hopped on our bikes and headed over to Lake Merritt BART to meet up with the taco truck bike tour organized by Cyrus Farivar of the California Taco Trucks blog. The turnout was great ( ( Read more... )

We've only had them for a couple of days now, but so far I'm really liking the new phones we got.

The camera is much better than the one on the previous model. This is a photo I took last night of the cat on the bed, lit only by the ambient light from a string of red rope lights we have running around the room at ceiling level:


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I was feeling down and sad on Saturday morning when I serendipitously came across a couple of videos that got added to the "makes me feel happy" file.

First, an ad from the Discovery Channel, "I Love the World" (which has made this big ol' sappy moosh cry every time I've watched it):

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