Welcome to the inaugural episode of a new entertainment experience. Five minutes of what we live with all day all the time; Zuzu fully loaded. Set on repeat for simulation of a weekend at our house.
Buster under the stars
September 5, 2009 by
Friday night and we’re downtown at Discovery Green to see Buster Keaton in The General. One of the best silent movies of all time, KUHF arranged to have The Golden Arm Trio accompany the film live.
This was one of those seemed-like-a-great-idea moments. The kids were entertained all night despite the movie. Fresh made cookies placated the youngins. Pinot Noir took the edge pour moi.
Poooor Stella. She hates black and white movies. So, this was a double-dip of DaddyMom fun for her.
End of an era
September 1, 2009 by
My pastor and friend Fr. Mario Arroyo
The road goes on. We either travel where it goes, or stand and wonder where it goeswatch it rowithout us. That obligates us to uncounted goodbyes in life. Tonight I said one to Saint Cyril’s of Alexandria Catholic Church.
Saint Cyril’s has been our family church home since before there was a home or a family. Tracey led me there in 1989. Over the 20 years that followed, every one of my babies was baptized there, three made first reconcilliation there and took first communion. My marriage was blessed there and I buried my wife there. I became Catholic there.
While saying goodbyes to the Pastoral Council members with whom I’ve served over the past eight years, I said if this were a decision made looking in the rearview mirror, there wouldn’t be a chance of my leaving. But, in looking forward, the needs of my kids dictate our change of church home.
Sunday we will officially become members at St. John’s and begin a new chapter in our family book of twists and turns. I wasn’t prepared for how sad this would leave me. It is another parting from the life with which I parted seven and a half years back. Another passage, a portal taking DaddyMom and his babies into what only He knows. We are not among those content to stand and watch. That’s why we walk this road in faith.
Look, don’t touch (today)
August 28, 2009 by
Creative services director and genuine mac genius Mike Raskovsky taught me years ago: no software updates or installs on Fridays. Wish he could have secured Apple’s cooperation in that. Today the new Snow Leopard OS Update landed on my inbox and she’s growling to get outta that box. Now, Friday ends at 6pm, technically speaking. Right?
iPost capable at last
August 28, 2009 by
The best place to hide something at my house is in plain sight. Turns out challenges I was having making postings from my iPhone was a case of the same thing.
When the dialog box came up talking about XML and PPC and lots of other letters and numbers, my simple automatic-transmission mind locked up. That is until my good friend Paul Boomer set me straight. I thought it had to be some kind of setting deep in the code–scarry to Mr. Big Picture. Turns out I was, as is so often the case, over-thinking the problem. Two check boxes later, my iPhone connected and now you are reading this.
The ability to post on the fly was the one remaining capability lacking from the bad old TypePad days. Thanks Paul for your help and for not making me feel like an idiot. (Far better at doing that myself.)