2004
2006
Lily picks THE SLOWEST LINE EVAR!
June 29, 2009
2 Years - Big Difference
Lily and Fiona at the Children's Discovery Center
2004
2006
Lily picks THE SLOWEST LINE EVAR!
2004
2006
Lily picks THE SLOWEST LINE EVAR!
June 22, 2009
June 12, 2009
Doing Uncle Bump's Job
Perfection
In the foreground:
J. Johnston 9'0" atop my car comfortably parked in the Super Secret Spot.
Actually not so secret. In fact the MOST sought after parking spot at Ala Moana Beach Park during a summer swell: directly inshore from Tennis Courts and Big Lefts, right next to the showers for afterward.
In the distance (250-300 yards that is): Solid 10-12 foot faces at Big Lefts, light offshore winds, chill crowd.
The only drag were the two helicopters hovering 50' off the water trying to find/rescue some poor soul. Hope s/he was ok.
May 26, 2009
May 22, 2009
Grandpa Gene's visit
Way back during Spring Break, Grandpa Gene was out for a quick visit.
Here's some pics:
In full coach mode
2 times over
Cute pic from the zoo
Watching the monkeys....
Shave ice!
Manning the AAA
Bogeys mark 27
Bowfin museum
In Das boot
Here's some pics:
In full coach mode
2 times over
Cute pic from the zoo
Watching the monkeys....
Shave ice!
Manning the AAA
Bogeys mark 27
Bowfin museum
In Das boot
Dorky hobby, Part XXII
What can I say?
The Spitfire is just a gorgeous plane
When Gene visited I made him help with the airbrushing. Turned out pretty nice IMHO.
May 03, 2009
The Red and Black Snakes
Or at least 75% of them.
Lily's on the Pink Eels which sounds to me like a euphemism for penis but whatever....
And there's ANOTHER Under 8 girls team named the Eels....wth?
Dirty snowball or comet?
Yes!
From the astronomy open house at UH.
Lily got all hand's on and made some astronomical stuffs.
They had lots of activities. One of which was a do it yourself pin toy like these:
where you put in the pins into a black box to find what type of terrain is below. SUpposed to model remote sensing of terrain on Mars or Venus.
With the low res version, there's only 40 or so pins (8 x 5 grid), mid-res about 80 and the high res is something like 150 you get the correct "map" created.
The people who brought it had considered not even bringing the hi-res one - figured no kids would actually have the patience to do the whole thing at each of the three resolutions
Turns out there were two who did.
Soccer buds
Lily and bff Aiyana.
Lily has already scored twice this season, once in her first game no less. And interstingly, it was nearly a carbon copy of her old man's first goal back in 1977.
Left side.
Five yards from the goal.
Ball bobbles to us.
Stop.
Wait.
Think.
Kick.
GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAL!
Brought it all back.
April 26, 2009
April 24, 2009
Good Times?
Still have a job, as does everybody in Exhibits. Some people won’t be as lucky today.
All salaried staff are now 36 hour employees (ie. 10% pay cut).
Got back to my desk and was listening to Dick Tater and the Czarina's weekly radio show.
They were playing “Good Times” by Chic.
So wrong.
April 23, 2009
Jake the bike mechanic
Now that Lily and Jake can ride w/o training wheels it was time to get my bike out of mothballs so I can keep up when we head to the park.
Jake loves cleaning and prepping.
That's my one and only mountain bike from back in the day. Got it in 1989 and still is great, though rusty here and there.
April 08, 2009
A is for.....Admiral Akbar!
So Jake and I are reading before lights out last night.
He chose "Zoe and Her Zebra" - one of those alphabet book where each page has an animal with a different initial letter. Each page also has a like lettered kid being "chased" by said animal.
So we're on B....
I'm pointing to the words and Jake is slowly reading...
"B....is...for....Ben...but who....is...chasing......him?"
Rather than go for the obvious (and pictured) animal Jake goes with an alternative that works.
"BANTHA !"
I love that kid. He was remembering when I showed him this:
Star Wars Alphabet
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