文書は英語ですが、写真は共通
(though I'm taking a break from blogging for a while)
Archive for December, 2006My Christmas present this year seems to be my health. Finally, yesterday (Christmas Eve), the cold I've had for the last two weeks or so started to abate. Perhaps it was the drugs that the doc gave me, or maybe it was just time, but I finally felt good enough to at least do some shopping. Our Christmas Eve began, just like last year and the year before, with the mini free concert at the Kyoto Hotel Okura. This time it was a Mr. Wakata playing Christmas favorites on the pan flute. Anthony had been hoping for horns like [...] 
View full post » I've had this cold for a week that's just left me feeling totally blah, with a mild headache and without an ounce of energy. Luckily, it doesn't take much energy or brain to sit in front of a computer, and so I thought I'd try to mix in some other colors with the blue this cold has left me feeling. Here are some colorful shots from one outing a month ago. The contrast and shadows in the last one grow on me as time goes. The second-to-last, looking up at a tall tree, is interesting in that you can see [...] 
View full post » A cute thing going around the Internet these days is Elf Yourself, a site where you can upload a picture of your face and then see yourself doing a silly dance dressed as an elf. It's fun and silly. When you go to the site and click the "Start the Elfamorphosis" button and choose to upload your own photo, you're first presented with this page: Blah blah blah, yeah, whatever, click ACCEPT and move along. If you actually glanced at the text shown before clicking ACCEPT, you'd see that you can't post porn and you have to have the right [...] 
View full post » I've had a cold (and still do... ugh!), which is why I'm not writing much, but something just happened that makes me really wonder why people can't keep their word. I ordered a new computer two weeks ago, and Dell said that I'd get it to me near Christmas, but it actually arrived a week ago (and is wonderful and zippy). And now, two minutes ago, a deliveryman shows up with my camera, back from service at Nikon. Nikon had promised it on Dec 23rd, but here I am with it three days early. I'm so glad [...]
This morning, Anthony's preschool had a Christmas service, which included the kids (aged 3-6) putting on a "pageant" depicting the Christmas story. The older kindergarten-aged kids did a lot of speaking roles and other complex things, while the younger kids like Anthony had less challenging tasks. Anthony was the star. Or, at least, a star, lighting the way for the three kings. He wore a star hat, and made "twinkling movements" with his fingers above his head. If you use your imagination, you can see Anthony on the far right in the picture above. (A crop taken from [...] 
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