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It’s pretty late, but I wanted to upload this video clip. farrah and I picked up Jane, Ann, and Tiana from the airport this evening. We went back to the house in SJ and started decorating the Christmas tree. As you can see from the clip, the kids started to become fascinated with the digital cameras.
Ok, I’m heading back to the living room to watch farrah finish wrapping gifts for the big day tomorrow.
How do you take your tea or coffee?
Submitted by Vasquez.
If the coffee is regular cup size, I take two sugars, one creamer. If it happens to be the coffee at work, it is amp’d up to four sugars and four creams. Yeah, it’s strong coffee.
Otherwise, give me a Venti Mocha please.
BossaNova treated Kelvin and I to lunch - as a thank you for covering his work duties while he was on vacation. It just gave me an opportunity to try and take a photo of the restaurant, Shabuway, on my cellphone and post it to Vox. The photo seems to have turned out ok. Hmmmm…perhaps I’ll need to add a data package to my phone plan.
So it’s been one year today that farrah and I have been married. As you can tell from the photo it was a little windy that day in Hawaii. But the wind is only one element that made the day memorable. I’m not really going to reminisce about that day. You can read about it here if you would like.
After work today, I’m going to spend a quiet evening with my wife.
Happy birthday to my beautiful wife, farrah Today is your big 3-Oh! But babe, you don’t look a day over 25 to me :)
farrah and I went to see Imogen Heap at the Warfield this past Sunday, December 3rd. We hadn’t been to a concert in quite sometime. I think the last concert we saw was Esthero at the Filmore back in July.
We got a late start to the Warfield, not really having a desire to see the only listed opening act who, Kid Beyond. I had never heard of him, but then again I have never heard of some of the opening acts I had seen at the Warfield before. I never heard of Cheryl Crow when she opened for Crowded House. I never heard of Jewel when she opened for Liz Phair. And I never heard of Tricky when he opened for PJ Harvey. I’m not saying Kid Beyond is in the same league as these opening acts, but he was very entertaining.
We caught the tail end of Levi Weaver’s performance. He had the crowd going on and made me interested in hearing how his studio work would be.
Kid Beyond in Toronto
Imogen Heap came briefly on stage to introduce Kid Beyond. The dude beat boxes and so much more. He did a little Nine Inch Nails, some Portishead, and some of his own stuff. You can catch some clips, such as this, on YouTube. All the performers used a machine that Imogen Heap called a parrot. I’m not sure if that is the correct reference, but basically the performer records a vocal or sound that they layer upon until they have the affect they are trying to achieve. Anyway, it was a very good performance.
Imogen then came out twenty minutes later. She started by walking through the general admission crowd on the floor. farrah and I were located in very good seats, first row lodge, so we could see her milling about there in the dark, singing the vocals to her first song. I had never seen Imogen Heap perform, or never seen a video by her, so I was quite surprised to by her stage presence and performance.
She put on a strong performance considering she had a nasty cold she caught from Levi Weaver. From her stage look and keyboard talent, all I could think of was that she may be the lost love child of Cyndi Lauper and Thomas Dolby. You can see photos of her on Flickr here. I didn’t realize she is the girl in the red coat you see on Flickr’s home page from time to time.
She danced around stage with reckless abandon and played her keyboards and other instruments with (mostly) perfect precision. Her parrot failed her on one of her songs, but her cold never slowed her down. She talks and responds to the crowd in her cute voice. Very cool interaction.
Hopefully she’ll come around again in a couple of years after working on her next album.
What is your stupid human trick?
Submitted by Scarlett.
I can fold my tongue in half - from front to back.
This morning we had to put Tigger to sleep. He was 19 years old.
He hadn’t eaten on his own the last six days. We brought him in on Friday and found out his white cell count was up, his body temperature was down, and his hydration level low. They gave him fluids and antibiotics.
Later that evening Tigger’s breathing pattern had changed. It seemed he was struggling with each breath. We kept an eye on him through the night, trying to keep him warm, but there was no change in his condition.
So this morning we brought him back to the clinic, knowing full well the choice we had to make. After more consultation with the vet, and an xray to guide us in our choice, we made the decision that he shouldn’t suffer any longer. I called my sister Tessie, who had Tigger originally, and told her the news. She agreed as well it was time to let him go.
I will always remember Tigger as the most affectionate cat I ever knew. I’m am happy that I had the opportunity to be his owner for about 13 of his 19 years of life. His meowing and playful clawing will be missed.
Anybody know what kind of spider this may be? Just found him in our bedroom. Yikes!
Oh, my friends at Yahoo!, how I hope the rumor is not true. I went to only one YEP (Year End Party) out of three opportunities.
I missed The Flaming Lips and Earth, Wind and Fire, but did manage to see Ozamotli. But Chris Daughtry? Granted, I would have voted for him, if I did that sort of thing. But if you’re going to have an American Idol perform at your Christmas party, can you at least get the current champ? Or better yet Kelly Clarkson?
Perhaps it’s a ruse. Maybe someone like Bob Dylan will show up?
What’s your dream career?
Submitted by Something.
If I could do it all over again I would have probably be a chef. I thought of being a chef my junior year in high school. Funny, I don’t cook to often now, but I think if I made that career choice back then and stuck with it, I would be pretty good at cooking.
