I finally installed FAlbum, Elijah Cornell’s plugin that integrates Flickr galleries into WordPress. It makes fabulous galleries; see how good my own galleries look.
Unfortunately, installation is a bitch. No matter what I did, I just could’t get friendly URLs to work, and attempts to troubleshoot it just broke the damned thing, again and again. So […]
You gotta love Glo’s on East Olive. Their breakfasts never fail to satisfy, even if you have to camp out for a table. I usually spring for the frittata, but today we had variations on Eggs Benedict. Halfway through Luna and I swapped. Luna preferred the salty bacon in my “Blackstone,” and I vastly preferred […]
I keep tweaking my WordPress blog, trying to bring it closer to some kind of ideal. Here, in list form, is what I did recently.
New banner photograph. I found a brilliant photo by scouring Flickr for Creative Commons, “BY-NC-SA”-licensed photographs. I tweaked it in Photoshop, then masked it into my banner image. Began using <!—-more—-> tags […]
We hit the Intiman tonight to see Lynn Nottage’s play, “Intimate Apparel.” I liked it enormously. Its protagonist, Esther, is a humble, African-American seamstress in the New York of 1905 whose business—-producing exquisite undergarments for her uptown and downtown clients—-and late-blooming love life come to successfully dramatize a host of class, gender and race issues […]
Superbrief weekend update:
Kha and Christine held their wedding last Saturday. Banquet at Hong Kong Seafood Restaurant. (pictures) Sunday we had Jennifer C & Nathan, Jen L & Matt, and Rachel over in Rachel’s honor: she’s going back to school for Industrial Design up at Western Washington University. We fired up the grill and made margaritas for […]
Sophie is ten weeks old now, a longer, bigger baby. She’s a happy, bright-eyed, and alert girl whom we love and adore.
Yesterday I needed a haircut and saw Oanh, my usual stylist. As she’s going to deliver a baby boy in September, we chatted about babies. (Where was Sophie? In her stroller with a good view onto my haircut.)
Then I pushed Sophie all over Broadway. Cal Anderson Park beckoned, but was still surrounded by chain […]
It’s 80°F, but I’m cooling off on a small grassy slope in Columbia Park behind the library. A breeze rustles the leaves overhead. Sophie’s snuggled in her sling. The neighborhood Wi-Fi network is strong. Now why didn’t I think to pack a thermos full of margaritas into Sophie’s diaper bag?
Baby’s woken and spit up, but […]
Replied to a good chunk of my brothers’ emails.
Met cousin Nam’s new family in Tacoma. It was my first time seeing his wife, Thao, and their preemie, infant twins, Sarah and Hannah. What eyes those twins had, such big dark irises. Cute.
Lunch was Pho Bac with Mom, Luna and Sophie. Rushed. I had the Special.
Saw […]
My favorite spot for a Vietnamese meal has to be Lemongrass Restaurant. The nearby Tamarind Tree is well-reviewed, with its creative takes on Vietnamese classics and sheer atmosphere. By comparison, Lemongrass doesn’t list a lychee martini on its menu. On the other hand, I’ve never had a disappointing meal at Lemongrass. Food and service are […]
Why do new parents put a “Baby on Board” sign on their cars? As a caution to other drivers? The narcissistic nitwits who can’t drive without a mobile dangling from an ear (cell phone suicide bombers) are not—-on seeing the sign—-going to place both hands on the wheel and drive safely.
I like driving with Sophie […]
Stunning. Sophie slept through the day today. Babies are changeable little things, but I thought that I knew her schedule after minding her since Saturday. She’s fun and lively most mornings, nappy in the afternoon, and fussy in the evening. And in fact Sophie was a joy midday when my Mom came by to spell […]
I’m feeling great about this blog. Blogging with WordPress is tons more fun since I installed a few, key plugins and cleaned house a bit.
Statistics: Who’s hitting my blog? What’re they hitting me with? Install ShortStat v0.36b and PathStat and understand what addiction is about. While you’re at it, sign up for StatCounter. Tags:amazon […]
Minding Sophie—-all day—-is exhausting. I’m downing cheap wine as I write this. During the day she’s a pleasure; it’s evening that brings out her fussy inner-demon. If this presages a colicky phase, well, I’m done for. Luna said it first: “She doesn’t like you at night.” Do babies really intuit body language? Maybe she’s […]
my baby Originally uploaded by tqn69.
Saturday, minding Sophie alone all day while Luna works. So far Sophie has consumed three disposable diapers and 10 ounces of breastmilk. This being a Seafair weekend, formations of Blue Angels would thunder overhead, causing me to leave the wriggly baby—-but […]
block party Originally uploaded by tqn69.
The street was closed for the annual, neighborhood block party Tuesday. The food was delicious, the neighbors were all just great, and the kids even had a piñata to kick around. Great job, Kat and Tari! We stayed until the dark […]
Luna and I had the neighbors over for grilled cheeseburgers last Sunday. The burgers were a Weber’s Big Book of Grilling recipe and tasty. Good times, but next time, for flavor, I’ll use chuck, ground at my request by a butcher. By the way, the recipe indicated 3/4″ patties, but Luna sized them how she […]
I’ll be on the Microsoft Campus in Redmond, Washington the next four days, attending a technical preview conference about “Office 12,” the next version of Microsoft Office. Yippee. I’ll be taking pictures of as many geeks as possible.
Update: I just saw an overview of the new GUI for Office and their new thinking in interface […]
So my brother read my blog, liked it, and wanted help replacing his blog at Harvard Weblogs, which runs on Manila. (He wants to start blogging in earnest, and Manila, he says, is not-so-intuitive.)
Hell, I can do that. I installed WordPress for him last night (as a sub-domain of my site). The procedure went much […]
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