Tag: gifts

  • More cool gifts

    25 Dec 2006 » 1 min read

    On Saturday morning, Jen and Jason brought out a stack of presents for me to open. Jen made me my own letterhead. It’s on gray granite paper and it has the coolest logo on the top center of the page: (It’s a little fuzzy looking because I took the picture with my camera phone.) The…

  • ‘Tis the season to get mail

    21 Dec 2006 » 1 min read

    This last week or so I’ve been flooded with more “real” mail than I normally get. Yesterday was no different. I received two packages yesterday. One was a gift from Bonnie & Tom: a biography of Charles Lindbergh that they found in a used bookstore. The other one surprised me because I completely forgot about…

  • Great minds

    21 Dec 2006 » 1 min read

    Last night at 8:30, I sat down for a video chat with Mom and Dad. We had arranged the video chat because they wanted to watch me open the gift they sent me. I was eager to do so as the package had been sitting in my living room for two days and I was…

  • Science fiction didn’t get it all wrong.

    20 Dec 2006 » 1 min read about Science Fiction

    I had a holiday letter from Rich and Tricia when I got home this evening. Also, there was a large box from Amazon which is the package that Mom admonished I not open until we are able to do a video chat and the folks can watch me open it. We’ve scheduled the video chat…

  • Building a house

    19 Dec 2006 » 1 min read

    I have decided to build a house, and I have Doug and Rachel (and Ruby and Carson) to thank for it. Doug, who works in the home loan industry has made this incredibly easy for me, supplying me with everything I need to get the job done, with absolutely no paperwork.

  • The Main Street Electrical Parade

    30 Mar 2006 » 1 min read about Music & Arts

    When I got home from work this evening, I had a package from Dan and Megan. It turned out to be the 50th Anniversary: A Musical History of Disneyland, a 6 CD collection and coffee table book. What a cool present! Thanks Dan and Megan. How can you listen to the Main Street Electrical Parade…

  • Pasta and Maragaritas?

    29 Mar 2006 » 1 min read about Fitness & Health

    I stopped at the groecery store on the way home from work today to pick up some groceries–and it took longer than usual because I had to actually check the sodium content of the stuff I was buying. When I got home, I actually cooked, something incredibly rare for me. I made plain pasta and…