Year: 2007

One of the best things about living in DC is being close to family. Tonight we had dinner with the DC Martins.

The young cousins put on a play.

Backstage prep:

The suspense:

The action:

And the appreciative audience:

I spent the morning emptying closets and rearranging furniture because even though my parent’s house is empty of people, it is overflowing with a lifetime of possessions and our own possessions (about 5 tons worth) are about to be delivered on Monday morning.

Jeremy had the pleasure of looking at all my science fair projects which are on display in the basement – my favorite being the fire fighting robot.

This cold is still lingering and we are still not 100% better yet.

We went to Lake Needwood and had a snack and walked around a bit. I remember going fishing there with Mom and Dad many years ago.

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Sadly, my Guitar Hero save data got corrupted yesterday. I was saddened by this, since I was pretty much 80% of the way thru the expert mode. I guess it’s just an excuse really to go back an redo all the songs better than before.

I managed to clean up medium difficulty in under a day without missing a 5 star, earning a cool $32,000. 😛

1. The World Book (circa 1984). “Researchers are seeking ways to improve computer memories and auxiliary storage equipment. The expect to produce an efficient magnetic bubble unit, which is faster and cheaper than mechanical tape or disk units. A magnetic bubble unit is a semiconductorlike chip that stores data in tiny, cylindrical shaped area called bubbles. Up to a million bits of information can be sotred in one bubble unit the size of a matchbook.”

2. IBM selectric typewriter. I loved the self-correcting ribbon.

3. Shrine to the IBM PC. Still on display in the family room next to the TV.

4. After many a dial-up service and surreptitious hanging onto errant neighborhood wireless connections, today (finally!) marks the inaugural day that my parents’ house has high speed internet. We may still have 2 rotary phones in use in the house, but hey, we are cruisin’

The kids and I said bye to Jai at about 10:30 this morning…

and we made it to Maryland at about 6:30pm.

(I’m learning to dodge and burn using GIMP – a free photoshop-type software… you can see in the lower left hand corner, it was totally overexposed and I burned it in a bit.. but I still don’t know how to make the edges less noticeable.)

All my bags are packed, I’m ready to go…

Don’t you know that I gotta get out of here
Cause New York’s not my home

Tomorrow we are moving again!

For a work related meeting. We’re in a lunch break. Just thought I’d say hello.

I can’t believe how bad we both still feel. I spent most of the past two days sleeping and taking Motrin. The IRSA conference was good! I didn’t take any pictures, but I met a bunch of people, including Sam and Jeff, folks I met through this blog and Ingrid who runs girl power 2 cure. I met a bunch of people from Maryland, including Nita and Pam (who lives in Gaithersburg) and little chats in the hallway with lots of other folks.

We met lots of other Rett girls ranging in age from 2 to 25 and we met a lot of educators who really believe in the abilities of these girls. It was nice to see.

We came home on Sunday night, missed the tribute dinner and the science talk on Monday morning..

Jia (a cellist in the conservatory) and Bob took good care of Vince while we were gone. Tonight they played a duet for us.

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Sunday I went out on a photo shoot with Eon and JT. Drove down to Santa Cruz, and went up the coast. We came across a ton of beaches, and a flock of kite surfers. I reminded me of one of those paintings you make in the first grade, where the sun is in the corner, shooting rays down, and the birds are curvy letter M’s in the sky. I tried to capture that feeling… I swear there were about double the amount of kite surfers on this beach than what’s in this picture.

Also we had a fun time at another beach, where JT lost his car keys, but didn’t realize it until just after sunset, and it was getting dark. Ironically, this guy that was camping near the beach, had a metal detector, and we spent an hour beachcombing but to no avail. We did find some rusty nails and 17 cents. Woo hoo. JT’s sister drove out to Half Moon Bay to give him some spare keys. The tacos we ate that night were delicious. 🙂