My nephew, Alex.


He's too cute.







He's upset because my brother took the pop can away.


All better.


My nephew, Aiden.  He's spelling jellyfish.


He left a space for a second L.  He doesn't like to mix the different kinds of letters, so he just left it blank.  He's got several different sets of letters, these have animals on them.  Aiden is a very smart little boy.  He's only three years old and already he can write his name and spell and write many words including but not limited to: horse, adventure, and rocket.  He can read some words and he knows all the states.  You can point to a state on the map and he can tell you what it is, and if he has a family member there.


All done.















Brother in a bowl.  Alex's nickname is brother.








Alex is a daddy's boy.


Cute!!!


A silly face from Aiden.




Making faces at himself in the mirror.  Wish I could have caught the mirror image.


Ahh... Brothers.


He loves making music.





Tired.




Aiden's bedtime/anytime bear.
My brother asked me to do some artistic shots with the bears.


Bear and Brother Bear.


Bear is so worn that he got another one (he doesn't use) and they called it Brother Bear.

Those are the pictures from one of the cards from my camera.  I have some from my phone and another 1 gig card.  I can't find the other 1 gig card.  I'm worried it fell out of my suitcase through a hole.  It was in a fair sized case.  I hope I didn't lose it.

I won't be blogging on here very much if at all. You can join Twitter and follow me. Follow this link: http://www.twitter.com/panda0eyes

I just want to profess my fondness for this web browser so that everyone may be aware.    Especially since you can use it on any OS.  Which you can use Safari for Windows, but I here from a very reliable source that it's really bad.  Take note I used to only use Safari and I was pretty much an Apple purist, but the features in the new Firefox had me intrigued.  To me using Firefox 3 is just like using Safari except that it's more stable and has more and better features.  Safari would crash on me more than I'd like to admit.  Firefox has features like better stability, the ability to type one word in to the address bar and have it know exactly what website you want, and the ability to save tabs when quitting. 

The address bar is pretty amazing.  Here's the quip from Mozilla:

"A quick way to get to the sites you love—even the ones with addresses you only vaguely remember. The new Firefox 3 location bar learns as you use it—it’s so highly evolved that we like to call it the “Awesome Bar”. Over time, it adapts to your preferences and offers better fitting matches. Type in a term and the autocomplete function includes possible matching sites from your browsing history, as well as sites you’ve bookmarked and tagged in a drop down. For example, you could enter the tag: “investments” to find “www.fool.com”. Matched terms are highlighted, making the list of results easy to scan."

The ability to save on exit is very useful.  It even works if I've logged out or restarted the computer. Another quip from Mozilla:

"Now when you open Firefox, your tabs and windows look just like they did when you closed it down. No need to reopen all your windows each time you start a session."

The ability to find add ons in the browser.  From Mozilla:

"You can now find and install add-ons directly in your browser. You no longer need to visit the add-ons Web site, simply fire up the new Add-ons Manager. Not sure which add-on is right for you? Ratings, recommendations, descriptions and pictures of the add-ons in action help you make your selection. The fully integrated Add-ons Manager even lets you view, manage and disable third-party add-ons in a few easy clicks."

My favorite add-on has to be Adblock Plus.  This is why:

No adblock in Explorer:



Adblock in Firefox 3:

 
The little image that says bling is from myspace.  If I wanted to take the time I could find it in the adblock preferences and block it.

So those are just a handful of reasons why I like Firefox.

Let's recap. Firefox has:

1. An awesome address bar.
2. Stability
3. Uses less memory
4. Design integrates with what OS your using
5. Faster page loads
6. Reopen closed tabs and save on exit

P.S.  The reason they are Vista screenshots is because I'm at work.

We moved in May 24th, but I just haven't gotten around to taking pictures until today.  So here it is.

The view from the balcony.



The view when you wallk in the front door:

The living room including the couch my mom gave us.

More living room.
    

DVDs and video games:
 

The dining room (and of course Boba Fett):

Book shelf and a sampling of our books.

The kitchen:

         

The office:

My work area:

 

 

My bathroom (left), Greg's bathroom (right):

       

The bedroom and the cedar chest that I got for Christmas from my parents:

    

Bamboo windchime!:

          

Emma enjoying the new apartment.

 

So, I have finally beat the Half-Life series and Portal. Now I have to wait patiently for episode three of Half-Life to be released; which has no release date set. There aren't even any rumors. That's how Valve works, but they make incredible games, so I forgive them. It's worth the wait. I highly recommend playing these games. They're incredible. Best first person shooter ever. The plot is intricate, and the game play is amazing. It looks amazing, and the physics engine is incredible. It's also realistic (I mean as realistic as you can get). Your suit doesn't recharge like in Halo, and sometimes you'll go a long time without finding a health pack. But it's not impossible get through. Sometimes I would die like a million times, but, at least for me, I would be like, "I have to figure out how to get through this." It takes a lot of paying attention, and figuring out puzzles. That's part of what is so neat. It's not just a run around and shoot aliens game, you actually have to figure out how to turn on electricity, so you can open a door, or start an elevator, or something like that.

So, everybody play Half-Life and Portal.

Now I actually have to start packing instead of sitting and playing video games and thinking, "I'll start packing after this chapter". We move on Saturday and I've only packed up one closet and a couple of bookshelves. Ohh!!! I got my stimulus check today. Woohoo.

I also have some other big news that I'll be able to tell you later.