I got nothing
It's not any better today.
⊕ Mercer Island, WA | 2008.07.29 | Cast of Horribles, Forest, Suffering
Janie and Jimmy visit
⊕ Mercer Island, WA | 2008.07.25 | Photos | Button, Janie, Jimmy, Julie's family, Ziggy
If only I could fit
This doodle was sitting on my harddrive for a long time. Julie helped put a name to it. It's another in a long line of suffering-for-no-reason Horribles.
Julie's sister Janie arrived with her dog Jimmy yesterday. We now have three people and three dogs in (or around) the Villa.
I would say more, but my head is clogged from a quick day trip to Mountain View yesterday.
⊕ Mercer Island, WA | 2008.07.24 | Cast of Horribles, Suffering
Some things are good to be left alone
Guest Artist: Sarah
My niece Sarah doodled this Horrible (this was her first one). She also titled it and went strong with the fart joke. I don't have the courage to go that strong.
I'm coming up from a light depression. I didn't even realize I was down until this morning. Work has been rather blah lately, and it took me until this morning to realize it was me. (I sometimes forget everything is about me.)
Julie's sister arrives tomorrow, followed by her other sister and parents this weekend. Lots more family adventures.
⊕ Mercer Island, WA | 2008.07.22 | Cast of Horribles, Farting, Guest Doodler, Sarah
Rachel's Doodle
After Sarah doodled the latest Horrible, Rachel added her own beautiful work.
⊕ Mercer Island, WA | 2008.07.22 | Rachel
The Bite of Seattle
⊕ Seattle, WA | 2008.07.20 | Photos | Bite of Seattle, David's friends, Food Festival
The words make up crap
Sometimes the word "crap" isn't strong enough. I doodled this during a drought (a creative not water one). I was happy to put anything on the digital screen. Looking back, the monster reminds me of my earlier monster-doodling days.
We're getting back into our routine after our NY vacation. The weather has finally taken a turn for the better (albeit a bit unseasonably dark and cool this morning). I'm still slightly tanned--although that seems to be fading quickly. Except for brief moments standing in the ocean at the beach, like true Seattlites, in the Hamptons we both hid from the sun most of the time.
⊕ Seattle, WA | 2008.07.17 | Cast of Horribles, Monsters
The long website
I was playing with the zoom function of my browser, and after zooming all the way to 10%, I realized how long my front page looked even at this magnification. It was somehow soothing. I snipped it (because of my new philosophy: if I do not record it, it did not happen):
⊕ Mercer Island, WA | 2008.07.16 | sewcrates.com, Website Design
It's been a long time
I did a bit of skipping to pull up this doozy. I drew this after my last long break from doodling back in April. I'm finishing up another break because of my computer problems. During the vacation, my new bios chip arrived from the Netherlands, and I plugged it in yesterday and watched as the beautiful bios logo appeared on the screen. I'm back in business.
While I had a good time on my vacation and took lots of photographs, I didn't accomplish much for NEQID: I brought a large stack of books, of which I read half a book; except for a brief doodle on the airplane, I didn't open my computer; which means I also didn't write a word. I did think about writing. That and a can of beans will get me lots of gas.
⊕ Mercer Island, WA | 2008.07.15 | Cast of Horribles, Doodling, Old man
The Hamptons Vacation
We visited Julie's sisters and Steven in NYC, and then went for a weekend in the Hamptons with my family. We celebrated my mother's 60th birthday, and spent much of the time at the beach and pool.
There are lots of photographs. With six nieces, I found most of the photographs too cute to delete.
⊕ West Hamptons, NY | 2008.07.14 | Photos | David's family, Hamptons, Vacation
"He's getting away!"
This happened back in the Castle days. We were sleeping when Julie heard a noise. She got out of bed and went to the window and saw a kid rummaging through our mailbox. He took our Netflix and a few envelopes we left for the mailperson, and took off as Julie banged on the window. She somehow resisted running after him--although she seriously considered it. Me? I turned over and continued to sleep. I'm no brave hero, especially when it comes to Netflix envelopes. I doodled this to document the occassion.
We're heading to NYC tomorrow for our Hamptons vacation. I've only been to the Hamptons once: during my summer internship at the law firm, they took us to a partner's estate for dinner. It was large and grassy. They were trying to show us the good life that working 100 hour weeks for forty years would get us. I somehow resisted that good life, but I did enjoy the freshly shucked oysters and overloaded trays of shrimp. That was pre-Kosher days (also pre-Julie days).
I'm not looking forward to the flight early tomorrow morning. The less I travel, the less I want to travel. It will be nice to see my family and nieces. I expect much doodling and photograph taking. We've decided not to bring the video camera, so no Sagamore-esque video. It's probably for the best.
⊕ Seattle, WA | 2008.07.08 | Cast of Horribles, Mail, Netflix, Robbery, Thief
She moved in so quickly
Ah, the Button! Here's the original photo. That grass is rather terrible. At least Button is cute. I haven't drawn the iggies in a long while.
Come to think of it, I haven't drawn anything in a while. Oh, yeah, now I remember why: I broke my computer again. I was trying to fix an issue I was having with Vista sleeping properly, and I attempted to flash the bios. This would have been fine if the WinFlash tool supported Vista 64-bit, which it didn't. I tried it anyway and it blue screened. This is not a good sign when flashing a bios. When I rebooted, the black screen stared at me. I had scrambled the bios and it would no longer POST. (The bios is rather important as it initializes the motherboard and devices and starts the boot process. Without it, no boot.)
I've done some research on Hot Flashing in which you swap the broken bios into a working machine and reflash it. Regretably, of the five or so computers at home, none of them have the same bios chip. One would think it would have been standardized by now. I plan to order a replacement bios from the internets today. Hopefully I'll be up and running sometime next week.
If you didn't notice (or read this thing through the fancy RSS feeder), my Little Guys are holding an umbrella this morning. It thunderstormed here this morning. During our bicycle commute last night, we also hit a short thunderstorm. I don't want to raise any undue alarms, but the sky may be falling, and the apocalypse can't be too far away.
⊕ Seattle, WA | 2008.07.03 | Button, Cast of Horribles
Be scared, very scared
Before we moved to the Villa, we started playing tennis at a local center near the Castle. Julie had played tennis for many years when she was younger, and I had never owned a tennis racket. We went a handful of times before we moved to the Villa. We purchased tennis rackets (mine a bit fancier than Julie's to handicap her), and a few cylinders of balls, all of which now sit in the garage awaiting a tennis revival. I'm noticing a scared theme in these competitve doodles. Do you remember the scared chess one? (As I looked through my old doodles, I'm not sure I can call two doodles a theme.)
I'm a very competitive person. Lately, I've not put myself in many competitive situations. I used to have basketball and driving. I had to give up my road-rage-inspired driving after realizing how ridiculous and dangerous it was. And basketball fell by the wayside when it became inconvenient to play. Bicycling and weight-lifting (which I haven't done in over a year) are fun but not competitive since there's no winning. Work at times is competitive, when there are contentious issues being discussed; although this is much rarer than it should be. Even video games have grown less competitive as I mostly play co-operatively with Julie and Steven.
Tennis did provide a short release of competitive energy. While it isn't as competitive as basketball--mostly because I don't get the opportunity to wrestle for rebounds or push myself into the box--I refused to lose to Julie. I'm quicker than her on the court (thanks to my long skinny legs), and I am able to get to the ball faster. I'm also nastier, sending lots of short balls barely over the net for easy points. I won all of our games (we may have tied and ran out of time during the last few games we played). Whenever it looked bad for me, my competitive juices would churn and I would focus intently and begin dinking the balls, scoring easy points and tiring out the Julies. I miss these opportunities to play (and win!) competitive games.
Looking through my mail today, I received an e-card from my mother. Until I opened it I couldn't figure out why she sent it. Today is our New York wedding anniversary. (I guess it's true what they say about men's ability to remember anniversaries.) As I mentioned in my last anniversary post, we are alternating our celebrations. For my mother (and, in reverse, Julie's mother), there is no alternating: we were married in New York on July 1st. We're okay with that.