Patti’s Family

4th Grade photos

nobody@vox.com(Nancy P.) — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 15:54:52 -0700

Bronwen and her friend Electra. 4th Grade. Wow.

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New photos

nobody@vox.com(Nancy P.) — Mon, 12 May 2008 16:06:25 -0700

Some new pictures since I've posted last. We've got new whale watching pictures, Bronwen skiing for her first time, and an easter pictures, and two pictures of my dogs. Whale watching this time was great. We got to see many humpbacks actually jumping completely out of the water. It was amazing. Hard to get pictures of though, the best I got was a big splash.

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QotD: I'm Biting My Tongue

nobody@vox.com(KT) — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 16:03:34 -0800

What are 10 things you want to say out loud but you can't?
Submitted by alix.

Ooooh ooooh ooooh... This is a good one... I try to be a nice person really I do... But sometimes I would just rather say:

No it's not alright you lame beeeotches... my time is important too... it's not all right that you need to reschedule...
Does the nature of the opportunity AFFECT whether you know the people I asked you about?? (Do you mean you only KNOW them if there's something in it for you??
Call your mommy... NOW... (oh wait I did say that) Good... now that I have you on the phone tell me every detail of everything you are doing so I can determine if I need to fly in there on my broomstick and save you!!! (Ok I didn't say that part...)
What is fucking wrong with you people??? (ooops I hope my mom doesn't remember where this blog is)
Why don't you ask your damn WIFE for the phone number? Cause then you'd have to explain to her why you're calling them AGAIN?
Stop messaging me and calling me and following me around... Can't you take a hint?
I miss you... I'm not happy about it... I want you back...
No I don't mean you you F***tard (see number 6)
My God you are a complete tool... Maybe it will be easier to be successful around here than I thought
I need help with [anything]...

Wow so I guess there are alot more things I wish I could say than I thought... (and alot more I won't even say here...)

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Whale Watching

nobody@vox.com(Nancy P.) — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 18:26:06 -0700

We took a little mini vacation to Monterey Bay this weekend. I went to a nursing conference and took the family along. We decided to go whale watching, well Bronwen and I did, Dan gets seasick so we left him at the hotel. We had a good time. We saw five humpback whales, and multiple Risso dolphins. I got video of the whales but I'm having a hard time getting it online.

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Camping trip. (From August)

nobody@vox.com(Nancy P.) — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 16:24:53 -0700

Bronwen and I went camping in August with some friends who were nice enough to invite us along. Here are just a few of the pictures I took. The top right one is Bronwen and Kim inside the driftwood house. I'm not sure what Kim did to deserve the look she's getting. The second one down on the right is Bronwen climbing a tree (yes I was nervous), with my friends son David below her ready to catch her if she fell. The bottom one on the right is a photo of a driftwood house at a beach near the camp ground. The top left one is Bronwen river walking at the campground. The middle left is Kim, Ron and David on a bridge over the creek. The bottom left is Bronwen and Ron, playing in the river that goes into the ocean.

We had a marvelous time and would love to go camping with them again. The only think bad to occur was that I had to get my car towed to Sebastopol from the camp ground because it wouldn't start. Quite the hassle considering we had no cell coverage and the nearest auto shop was over an hour drive away. Luckily it turned out to be nothing. Next time I'll check the battery cables on the truck a bit more carefully :).

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Trip to D.C.

nobody@vox.com(Nancy P.) — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 13:27:08 -0700

We visited the Baltimore/D.C. area April 9th-16th to see family and visit the nations capitol. A good time was had by all. Bronwen had a blast spending time with her grandmother and her cousin Zoe. She also had fun seeing things she had only seen in pictures and on TV. We were exhausted by all the walking but it was fun. At least it was fun until I came down with the plague (strep throat) on Saturday. It was very nice to have some family around that was able to entertain Bronwen on Sunday while I visited an urgent care clinic. I kind of like having family close by. We really had a nice time.

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San Francisco

nobody@vox.com(Nancy P.) — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 12:07:16 -0800

We spent a day in SF last weekend. Among the things we got to see and do. The Amgen Tour of California was doing their time trials starting at the Ferry Building. We got there just in time to see Levi take off. http://www.amgentourofcalifornia.com/race-live/videos/prologue-videos.html for video of the race. We got to feed the wild parrots of telegraph hill. A book was written about them. We were just lucky that we happened to be walking by the park when they were there. We rode the cable car up to the top of Nob Hill and back down again. We got to walk through Chinatown. All in all it was a very nice day, and not once did we need a jacket.

The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill: A Love Story . . . with Wings

Mark Bittner

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Bronwens Talent Show

nobody@vox.com(Nancy P.) — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 11:48:21 -0800

Talentshow

Bronwen choose to participate in this years talent show. She choose to do comedy. I didn't get the entire show because I'm an idiot but here is what I did get. She did great.

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How Many Blogs?

nobody@vox.com(KT) — Mon, 05 Feb 2007 05:32:26 -0800

Dummies

As I've wandered around the blogosphere I've noticed a number of blog posts and blog titles here and there that reference how many blogs people have. That made me stop and count up just how many I have... It's WAY more than I realized:

Blog #1 - March 2005 - Stumbled across this at another topic-specific site; this was the first electronic journal I've ever used and the first journal of any kind I've ever kept up with - Stats - 854 posts - still posting

Blog #2 - April 2005 - If one is good, MORE must be better; discovered a free, open blogging tool (I won't mention the 'B' word here (shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh)), much prettier and easier to use than tools blog #1 uses (this is STILL unfortunately the case), I set this up for fun not really knowing what I wanted to do with it, but it has ended up being a totally private place where I post things I feel very strongly about getting down in writing, but don't want to share with anyone (yes I AM a big baby sometimes) - Stats - 10 posts - still posting but infrequently (what can I say, life is good for the most part and I share most everything with SOMEONE)

Blog #3 - May 2005 - Set up as an experiment to figure out how to link the blogging tool above to a domain/website that I already have; fun experiment, it worked well - Status - 3 posts - never posted again after the initial set-up

Blog #4 - Sept 2005 - Set up because of frustration with 'topic-specific site'; I set this up using Moveable Type (see I can say that here) on my own domain (installed it myself and everything (aren't you impressed Patti?)); this was lots of fun at first because a number of bloggers from the 'other site' came with me, but eventually it became too tedius to cross post with the other site, so it fell off... - Stats - 211 posts - haven't posted there since Oct, 2006

Blog #5 - June 2006 - This one :D - Invited here by Patti (I looooooooove you :p ); Yes, it's true, I was a Vox beta tester (wanna touch me??); I set this up because I'm always a sucker for new techno-toys, it's turned out to be a good place for fun, family-friendly, geeky blogging, I like the tool but WHEN are you guys gonna let us use code snippets and links in the sidebar (like in Typepad)? - Stats - 28 posts - still posting

Blog #6 - June 2006 - Set up a Flickr account - Does this one count? I suppose in a multimedia sort of way - Stats - 289 photos posted - still posting

Blog #7 - Jan 2007 - Set this one up using Moveable Type again because I wanted a place to keep some of the ideas I have floating around in my head; I like MT because it's completely customizeable, but I had some issues with the hosting site and the template I was using, and I don't really have the time or inclination to do much hard-core code development on the site/templates, so it's really more horsepower than I need - Stats - 10 posts - took this site down and switched to Typepad (see below)

Blog #8 - Jan 2007 - Set this one up using Typepad (am still in my 30 day free trial period (I love you guys haha!)) to take over hosting of Blog #7; I like the tool because it's flexible and customizable, but you guys take care of the server bs that I don't wanna deal with, if I decide to get ambitious I may switch to the advanced templates but so far it's working well; I like the 'community feel' of Vox, but I don't like that you have to be a member to comment so for this one Typepad is working better - Stats - 16 posts - still posting, come visit me!

Damn! No WONDER I can't get away from this computer!!! coughaddictcough!! So now it's YOUR turn... How many places do YOU blog???

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Bronwens First Climbing Competition

nobody@vox.com(Nancy P.) — Sun, 04 Feb 2007 12:17:36 -0800

Pinkroute

Difficulty

Speed

This is Bronwen at her first climbing competion. She did very well but did not place. She has decided that she likes it after worrying and fretting over it for the past two months. Now she wants to go to the rock gym more often and work on bouldering which she never liked before. Had she done better at bouldering she would have placed easily. I'm very proud of her.

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