The family (minus Frank) dropped by to visit "Grandma Joan" in the South Bay. Joan used to attend FBC until she moved down to Cupertino. The kids were quite impressed with the complex's on-site cafeteria. :-)
Sunday, July 30, 2006
A visit with "Grandma Joan"'
The family (minus Frank) dropped by to visit "Grandma Joan" in the South Bay. Joan used to attend FBC until she moved down to Cupertino. The kids were quite impressed with the complex's on-site cafeteria. :-)
All dressed up for church
Colin and Katie got all dressed up for church this week. Well, Katie usually insists on her "pretty pink dress" but Colin doesn't usually put on the his fancy shirt and slacks. So we took a picture of the two of them before heading off to Sunday service.
Luckily, you don't see this in the picture, but Colin's got white socks on with his dress slacks and loafers. We couldn't find his dark socks. :-)
Friday, July 07, 2006
Amazing ping pong volley
This time, here's a real world, eye-poping ping-pong volley (as opposed to that Matrix-style ping pong volley I posted a few months ago).
Monday, July 03, 2006
Typing and a great book series
Ok, here are two quick items which have typing (and a man named Mr. Smith) in common.
Item #1: How fast can you type? Find out at this Web site which has you type in excerpts from the Gettysburg Address (I think) and calculates how many characters and words per minute you are typing. Accuracy counts -- a little indicator will turn red if you haven't typed in exactly what it's asked you to type.
Tip: stop typing as soon as you finish typing the text; if you type anything else, you'll dismiss the little pop-up window that tells you how many words or characters per minute you've typed!
I've been a pretty speedy though not terribly accurate typist ever since my high school typing class with Mr. Smith (no, really, my typing instructor's name was actually Mr. Smith). So depending on how many mistakes I made, I "scored" anywhere between 85 and 126 words per minute.
Item #2: Thanks to Rob & Jen for turning us onto a delightful series of novels by a Scottish writer named Alexander McCall Smith. Rob, as it turns out, is visiting Botswana in the fall as part of his medical training. And Mr. Smith has written a charming six-volume series of novels set in Botswana.
The books are about a woman who sets up her own detective agency, the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency. The novels are less about private detection per se, but more about how people change as their country transforms from a purely rural country to a more urban country, from a traditional culture bound by "the old Botswana morality" to a less civil, more hurried modern culture.
The main characters are captivating, the writing is beautiful, and the stories will touch your heart. I heartily recommend the entire series. The books will have you pining for a simpler time and place. It will make you feel like you understand something about Botswana even if you -- like me -- have never set foot there.
Item #1: How fast can you type? Find out at this Web site which has you type in excerpts from the Gettysburg Address (I think) and calculates how many characters and words per minute you are typing. Accuracy counts -- a little indicator will turn red if you haven't typed in exactly what it's asked you to type.
Tip: stop typing as soon as you finish typing the text; if you type anything else, you'll dismiss the little pop-up window that tells you how many words or characters per minute you've typed!
I've been a pretty speedy though not terribly accurate typist ever since my high school typing class with Mr. Smith (no, really, my typing instructor's name was actually Mr. Smith). So depending on how many mistakes I made, I "scored" anywhere between 85 and 126 words per minute.
Item #2: Thanks to Rob & Jen for turning us onto a delightful series of novels by a Scottish writer named Alexander McCall Smith. Rob, as it turns out, is visiting Botswana in the fall as part of his medical training. And Mr. Smith has written a charming six-volume series of novels set in Botswana.
The books are about a woman who sets up her own detective agency, the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency. The novels are less about private detection per se, but more about how people change as their country transforms from a purely rural country to a more urban country, from a traditional culture bound by "the old Botswana morality" to a less civil, more hurried modern culture.
The main characters are captivating, the writing is beautiful, and the stories will touch your heart. I heartily recommend the entire series. The books will have you pining for a simpler time and place. It will make you feel like you understand something about Botswana even if you -- like me -- have never set foot there.
Sunday, July 02, 2006
The rings
Colin's gotten quite good with the rings -- better than I remember myself being. Hopefully he'll be more together physically than I ever was!
Everything's coming up daisies!
We're glad it's cooled off somewhat, though I imagine the daisies love the sun whether it's cool or roasting.
Colin and Katie inside a tree
The kids had a hard time accepting the proposition that this was a real tree. "It's so smooth!" said Colin.
The seal at the Bay Area Discovery Museum
The smooth stone seal at the Bay Area Discovery Musuem -- the site of our July family adventure -- has a great view of the Golden Gate Bridge. Colin declared the museum "much more fun that I expected." Given that pretty much the only other musuem we've been to is the kid-oriented Children's Discovery Museum in San Jose, I wonder how he's already programmed to think that museum are not great fun.
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