Category: Family
Happy Birthday, Dad
My dad turned 61 today. There’s a longer story here, tied to a post I want to do about books and reading. But for now: Happy Birthday, Dad.
Sophie
Sophie Eleanor was born on Sept. 16th, at 12:29 AM.
While retrieving my car from the parking garage to bring her home, the parking attendant asked me, “How much this baby cost?”. To which I replied, “More than you want to know.”
It took me a minute to realize that he was asking me about my car.
Wedding Weekend
Back from Malvern, PA, where Jordan and I attended Caroline and Brad’s wedding. Photos from the digicam are here. I shot a few rolls of film with the Leica that I’ll get developed this week.
It was a beautiful weekend — on the drive down on Friday it seemed that everyone had played hooky to take advantage of the weather. I was shuttling several boxes of cupcakes from Joyce bakeshop for the rehearsal dinner, and they were an absolute hit. I felt kinda bad for eating three, considering I can get them here anytime. But the feeling went away after a few bites.
The day of the wedding we were apparently within spitting distance of an Obama rally in Paoli, the next town over. Caroline wanted to show up in her wedding dress for a photo op with Barack.
KO’d
Got sucker-punched by the flu this past Wednesday. Spent Thursday working from home, but by Friday I just packed it in and hibernated through Saturday. This came just as we’re finishing up the project I’ve been working on for the last several months, which made for the worst possible timing.
Mom stopped in to visit us Saturday evening, and today she was off to meet an old friend of hers from Manila. She got to see Jordan sing in church this morning, before heading off to catch a Broadway show with her friend.
Nice to see my new(ish) tv made the top of the heap in a recent showdown. Malice recently got a new flat-panel and we were discussing the relative merits of 1080p resolution. Is it worth it? Here’s one chart on different seating differences related to the screen resolution we can discern.
Of course, all of this comes as Pioneer announced they would start sourcing their plasma panels from Matsushita, which led to a fair amount of panic in the online echo chamber about the fate of the Kuro line. Pioneer swears it won’t make a difference in quality.