Lagoon is closing for the season so we went one last time. Halloween is the best time to go.
Tag: Family
Grami Del
Some people deserve to live forever yet on this beautiful Autumn day we spent the day with family celebrating a life beautifully lived and saying goodbye to Grami Del. She is in so many ways what I hope to grow up to be. She was unfailingly kind to everyone. She loved family and loved to…
Vegas Baby
I and my daughters and their friends took a trip to Las Vegas to see Harry Styles first concert since the Pandemic started.
Aubrey and Alyssa
I’ve worked from home for most of my life. My office is in the basement at the bottom of the stairs. Aubrey’s is next to it on the way to the storage room where I keep my chocolate. As an unrecovered cocoa addict my path to a chocolate fix carries me past my daughter’s bedroom…
Look What Aubrey Drew
Aubrey’s gift to her grandmother’s this year was this drawing:
Maker Faire
After a week with the Google tech elite today was a day dedicated to fun, curiosity and fascination. Callie brought Devin down Yesterday so we could spend today experiencing the inventions of the Bay Area’s eccentric, creative, technology minds. I’m not sure how to describe Maker Faire. There are vendors selling everything from small CNC…
Viva Las Vegas
Day 1. The Dam Day. – March 29 Our first day we leave Las Vegas (doesn’t everyone?) and head out to Hoover Dam to take the Dam tour. It’s a really big dam. We pay our dam money, ask a few dam questions and wait in a dam line to watch a dam movie. We…
Gifts
It’s January. That means a couple of things: I’ll be forgetting to write the correct year for several weeks. I’m older so the forgetting will probably last for more than several weeks. It’ll probably be 3 months before I’ll be outside on a road bike. I have 3 months to ride my fat bike. I…
Huntsman Awards for Excellence in Education
My mother in law received a Huntsman Award for Excellence in Education this evening – a well deserved honor befitting her work as an educator over the past 16 years. Out of the 21,000 teachers in the state of Utah, 2 elementary school teacher, 2 junior high teachers and 2 high school teachers along with…
Kids these days
When I was a kid we watched TV on a 20” screen that weighed 600 pounds, output 480i (the antithesis of HD TV) and only provided very fuzzy, analog network channels. Howe we wished for a big screen TV. They were the size of a VW bug, 480i and still only provided fuzzy analog. Of…