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Dave Has Arrived
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For those of you who may be wondering where Dave is…photographic proof that he made it to Austin.

qwertyuiop
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Fun with blocks

Alexander has become quite the little reader over the past few weeks. He’s always enjoyed a bedtime story, but recently he’s been asking us to read to him first thing in the morning after he gets up, before every nap, after he wakes up from each nap and every now and then at random points during the day.

We read:
Possum Magic *
Edward The Emu *
Thomas The Tank Engine
Mother Goose
Scuffy The Tugboat
Guess How Much I Love You?
The Bunny Book
The Puppy Book
Are You My Puppy?
The Bunyip of Berkeley’s Creek
Where The Wild Things Are *
The Very Hungry Caterpillar *
I’m sure there are more….but can’t think what right now.

The books marked with a * are on heavy rotation.

Classy
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I think it may be time to get an ice bucket.

Running, Jumping, Climbing Trees Originally uploaded by krisalis.

How excited am I?

I’m in process of upgrading to Wordpress 2.5.

See you on the other side….I hope….

Update:well, that seems to have worked. Yay!

Now if I can just muster enough brain power and energy to fix the design….

The old design has been driving me batty for a while now, and this evening I snapped and just HAD TO DO SOMETHING.

So, here you have it….it’s…..something.

The photo was taken back in October of last year, when we were in Edinburgh, up on the Crags near Arthur’s Seat.

I had a hard time fumbling my way around the CSS stylesheet, because my skillz are all rusty.

If someone wants to tell me how to make the background pale blue (not the text area, I like that white) that would be sweet. Also, I seem to have broken pop-up comments.

1) Ski down to Chamonix from the top of Mont Blanc
2) Complete at marathon
3) Complete a half iron man
4) Scuba dive off the coast of Borneo
5) Spend a night in Raffles Hotel, Singapore
6) Knit something other than a blanket, scarf or hat
7) Ice skate at the Rockerfella Center in New York
Take Alexander to Disney
9) Thow a big 25th wedding anniversary party for me and Mark
10) Ride the MS150 from Houston to Austin again
11) See Eddie Izzard perform live comedy
12) Fly first class long distance (preferably from the US to Australia) in one of those planes with the lie flat beds and fancy service
13) Do 10 real push-ups
14) Watch the Olympics, live. Preferably swimming or track and field.
15) Watch a stage of the Tour de France
16) Drink retsina at an outdoor café in Greece
17) Hot air balloon
18) Take a Thai cookery class, in Thailand
19) Brew my own beer
20) Climb Mount Fuji
21) Soak in Japanese bathhouse (in Japan)
22) Hot springs in Iceland
24) Watch a tennis match at Wimbledon
25) Shop at an open air Christmas market in Germany

(inspired by the Mighty Life List)