April 29th, 2008 by andrew
This weekend we went to Victoria and accomplished many astonishing things. Allow me to list them:
Thing 1 — Taming Wild Beasts
Thing 2 — Scooting
Thing 3 — Enrolling a Large Part of our Family into a Scooter Gang
Thing 4 — Being Photographed at Night
Thing 5 — Riding on a Taxi that Floats
I ask you, what did you do on your weekend?
For more evidence of our doing astonishing things, go here.
August 11th, 2007 by andrew
We’ve discovered some excellent Pita baking techniques. We’re using the recipe from The Bread Bible, only since we don’t plan ahead, we don’t raise it for anything like the time suggested in the book. Then, we’ve been baking the pitas on our grill outside. Most of the time they rise into beautiful little pockets like you see here, and the whole process takes about an hour, including rising and baking.
We’ve also been doing some Dodo flying. Friday afternoon I bought a new motor for my Dodo and Joe and I took both our planes up for some tandem Dodo flights. It was not to be. Mine was far underpowered and took a quick nosedive into the brambles. I took it home and did some repairs, and replaced the propeller with a larger one. This morning, while Alyssa was rounding at the hospital, I took the Dodo out by myself and had an excellent flight.
Of course, as always seems to be the case, that flight ended with a serious nosedive into the concrete, but the nosedive was preceded by some beautiful moments. Loma Linda’s almost beautiful at 7:30 in the morning.
August 7th, 2007 by andrew
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Joe bought the same kit that I used to create the Dodo, but his creation turned out to be far less flightless; which is to say that it flew.
I’ve been inspired to resurrect the Dodo, and see if I can’t make it soar once again. We shall see.
Despite not having our own functioning plane to fly, we had a pleasant time watching Joe fly up in the hills above Loma Linda.
Quite a good time.
August 7th, 2007 by andrew
We decided that it was time for another sadieshoot. She did quite well.
You can see the entire set here.
April 6th, 2007 by andrew
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We have been to Baja, and it was excellent. I’d highly recommend it. We saw many things, many of which you can see on our flickr gallery of the trip, or on Jesse’s.
The video above is of diving Pelicans near Bahia De Los Angeles, excellent birds in an excellent place.
February 13th, 2007 by andrew
My flickr account has recently been inundated with baby photos. I suppose there are worse things to be inundated with. Perhaps I’ll soon be fielding calls from calendar companies looking for the next Anne Geddies. Forget advertising or dentistry, a career in baby photos is the way to go.
But that’s not what you’re here for. You’re here to see photos of Sadie and Thomas. Go ahead. I know you want to.
February 6th, 2007 by andrew
February 5th, 2007 by andrew
Please forgive us, you thousands of readers, rabidly waiting for frequent updates on our lives. We have been lax. Many things have happened. Here are some of them.
Potting
We took some time last Sunday to re-pot plants. Alyssa worked on her herbs, I worked on the Kumquat Alyssa gave me for Christmas.
Read on for more.
January 12th, 2007 by andrew
This weekend was my office Christmas Party. When I think of Christmas Parties I think of going over to someone’s house to awkwardly exchange gifts and drink cider. For our Vertical Advertising Inc. office Christmas party, we all met at a hotel in Laguna, ate four courses in a private dining room on the roof of a hotel, and stayed up until far too late. Alyssa and I were loathe to leave the beach this morning and return to the smog-ridden harsh realities of the Inland Empire.
To ease that pain, I decided to take on an afternoon project. It is true that generally any time I I take on a project, more pain is inflicted than relieved, but I was feeling lucky.
I followed the vague guidelines from Make Magazine, spent far too much time and money at Lowes (the workbench was supposed to be a deal, and the actual materials were only $30 or so, but that was before I bought a square, and drill-bits, and several hundred wood-screws, and a measuring tape, and hooks to hang our bicycles from the celing, etc..), and then spent a happy couple of hours in the driveway putting together the workbench. As you can see, the experience was generally a success.
I feel as though the next step should be to paint it, but I’m undecided as to the colors. Any suggestions would be appreciated.
