Monday, February 23, 2009
23 Year Anniversary
Celeste and I have been married for 23 years today. My kids believe that we are that old, but we do not. Anyway, it's nice to spend all of those years with a good friend that you love!
Labels: Marriage
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
Hail in The OC
Yesterday morning we had the end of a storm pass through the area. With this storm, we got a large pelting of hail at the house. It is not unusual to get a little bit of hail now and then, but there was so much this time that it looked like a snowfall!
Below are a few pictures of the hail that I took at lunchtime (about 3 hours after it dropped).
Leftover hail on the neighbor's roof:
Hail in our garden:
Hail harvested from our garden:
Below are a few pictures of the hail that I took at lunchtime (about 3 hours after it dropped).
Leftover hail on the neighbor's roof:
Hail in our garden:
Hail harvested from our garden:
Wednesday, February 11, 2009
Snowmobile!
While I was in Sweden last week, I had my first ever chance to ride a snowmobile. It was big fun! Below are some photos taken with the camera on my phone.
Labels: Driving, Rob, Travel, Work
Monday, February 09, 2009
Time for another update
I have not updated for a while, so here are a few random tid bits.
Live has been very busy preparing for a "User Acceptance Test" with my customer in Sweden. This is a very important step where the users get to say if the system is ready to be used. I was in Sweden last week and we passed with some caveats. We have a few things to fix, but we are basically ready to go at the end of this month. This is a world-wide company, so if the pilot project in Sweden goes well then I have potential to travel to much more of the world.
On the home front, we took Ina (our Norwegian exchange student) to Las Vegas for a weekend. She really liked it and wanted to stay longer -- even though she is not old enough to gamble. She enjoyed taking lots of pictures and generally seeing all of the flashing lights and interesting decor. Andrew went along with us, so it was a nice family reunion weekend of sorts too.
Here are a few random photos that I have gotten lately.
In January, four representatives from my customer in Sweden came to visit. The weather was great. We went to the "Great Park" to ride the balloon. The weather was clear enough to see almost all of the way to downtown Los Angeles.
We have been keeping an eye on some of our outside wood, and decided that it was time to replace some pieces and get the house painted.
Ina (top photo) and Bethany (bottom photo) at the Treasure Island pirate show in Las Vegas. Unfortunately, the show was cancelled due to wind. However, they did not make that decision until after we had stood out there for 1/2 hour.
Hayley at M&M World in Las Vegas.
Live has been very busy preparing for a "User Acceptance Test" with my customer in Sweden. This is a very important step where the users get to say if the system is ready to be used. I was in Sweden last week and we passed with some caveats. We have a few things to fix, but we are basically ready to go at the end of this month. This is a world-wide company, so if the pilot project in Sweden goes well then I have potential to travel to much more of the world.
On the home front, we took Ina (our Norwegian exchange student) to Las Vegas for a weekend. She really liked it and wanted to stay longer -- even though she is not old enough to gamble. She enjoyed taking lots of pictures and generally seeing all of the flashing lights and interesting decor. Andrew went along with us, so it was a nice family reunion weekend of sorts too.
Here are a few random photos that I have gotten lately.
In January, four representatives from my customer in Sweden came to visit. The weather was great. We went to the "Great Park" to ride the balloon. The weather was clear enough to see almost all of the way to downtown Los Angeles.
We have been keeping an eye on some of our outside wood, and decided that it was time to replace some pieces and get the house painted.
Ina (top photo) and Bethany (bottom photo) at the Treasure Island pirate show in Las Vegas. Unfortunately, the show was cancelled due to wind. However, they did not make that decision until after we had stood out there for 1/2 hour.
Hayley at M&M World in Las Vegas.
Labels: Exchange Student, Family, Travel, Work
