the grid

i hate living on the grid. it is fraught with dependencies that irritate me probably more than most.
apparently there was a water main break near us and we have been under a boil water advisory since yesterday morning.
we didn’t find out about this until yesterday night so i guess boiling it now is kinda moot.
GAH.

yesterday was lost to the portable music devices

mp3 players have made it into our house and they are like a drug.
R gave me a sandisk sansa for christmas and he got an ipod from a friend at work (another story for another post). they have instantly isolated us from each other. we are both either consumed with ripping our cd collections to [...]

yeast rolls *updated

this year i had planned to add homemade yeast rolls to the christmas dinner menu using the recipe i remember my maternal grandmother using when i was growing up. i got the recipe from Sister in time but with all the excitement of the day yesterday we went with premade frozen rolls.
so i am trying [...]

christmas day 2006: a short photo essay

M patiently waits for the gift giving to begin

R arrives in the front room looking a little bewildered

a little tree gazing

M knows her stocking and gets very excited about fishing out her things. notice the blurred tail caused by rapid wagging

M dives right in

loving the new giraffe

a quiet moment with a christmas pig

R gets presents [...]

christmas eve

well, i monitored NORAD’s santa tracker until he got out over the open pacific ocean. the star marker is for a sighting on easter island.
it looks like he is headed back north to work the baja peninsula and the western US. very north/south zig- zaggy that santa claus is.
it is raining here and late (1:30 [...]