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Jul
0

Crabbing with Grandpa

Personal,Travel

Today we went to Grandpa and Gigi’s house near Kayak Point to go crabbing. I’ve never been crabbing before and neither have the boys. Grandpa has a unique method that proved to be very successful. I was in the canoe with the boys just offshore while Grandpa was wading in the water. We would spot the crab from the canoe then push them to more shallow water using the oars. Most often Grandpa and I would double team with our oars to bring a crab up into the canoe. After the first crab, I was hooked. We ended up catching around 25 sized crab and threw back 13 females. Later in the evening we feasted on the 12 crab we caught.

The weather cooperated as well. I thought I was back in Souther California… minus the Dungeness crab. Another wonderful day on our Seattle vacation!

 

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Jul
0

Summertime in Seattle (part 2)

Personal
I’ll keep this one short as we’re trying to get out the door for either the Woodland Park Zoo or the Seattle Aquarium. The aquarium is our backup plan should it rain… which its doing right now. Now I’m seeing why everything is just so green up here, although yesterday we definitely had to sun-block up the kids.

The last couple days we’ve seen a ton of family, spent time at the beach and some parks, and continued our eating spree. The boys just loved the beach at Mukilteo as its so different than the beaches in San Diego. They really enjoyed all the rocks, shells and crab body parts, looking at the jellyfish in the water and climbing on the driftwood. It really is a great place to play. Emily kept having to tell the boys that we can’t bring home the crab body parts with us as  cool as they were. Who wouldn’t want to bring home crab legs, right?

Today we’re upgrading Emily’s parent’s garbage DSL from Frontier to a respectable connection from Comcast Cable. Everyone here is excited to have working Internet again. I still can’t believe the terrible connection they’ve had to live with for some time. $25/mo for 768k/128k connection, max. Yuk!!

Off for another day of adventure.

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Jul
0

I’m 99% slower than you

Personal,Technology
I can’t believe the family I’m staying with is paying $25/mo for this crap service from Frontier. Look at these tests below… all done within 5 minutes of each other.
I called Frontier and they told me the area we are located in is being upgraded so we should expect intermittent connectivity for 30-45 days. Maybe they should expect intermittent payment as well. Even once the lines are updated, the max profile available is 3Mbps/768k for $30. Gimme a break!!!
I want to click on the rating option but I there isn’t an option for ZERO stars.

 

BTW – They are moving over to Comcast 20/2 tomorrow… for the same price. Frontier FiOS 25/25 for $39.99/mo. Wish I could get this service at home in San Diego.

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Jul
0

Summertime in Seattle (part 1)

Personal
We’re up in Seattle for a couple weeks visiting family and friends. I still can’t get over how late the sunset is up here. I took the sunset photo from my father-in-law’s place near Stanwood around 9:15pm. Just amazing (both the lateness and the view from his place). Getting the kids down to bed is not as easy here as it is in San Diego. Their bedtime in San Diego is around 7:30 and it’s pretty dark by 8pm. So far, the kids have been going to bed after 9pm and it’s still light out until 10. They are a bit confused!

At Grandmas and Grandpas, we’ve been eating our weight in raspberries. Grandma has a fantastic garden full of all sorts of treats… peas, berries, rhubarb (crisps!).

On Monday the Samms came up to visit. Isaac had been asking to see them since we stayed at their place last summer. They were awesome with all of the boys and wore them out! They even did a fencing demonstration for us.

Today we’re off to Mukilteo for a bit.

Love vacation!

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Jul
1

Don’t Touch My Hair!

Personal

Today when I came home from work, my two and half year old son, Isaac, was very excited about his new big boy haircut. He came racing outside to greet me and to show off his new do. I’m used to him having somewhat curly longer hair so the haircut was definitely a drastic change for me. It was truly a big boy haircut. I reached out to touch his cool new do and he got a bit of a frown on his face and quickly said, “Daddy, don’t touch my hair!”

It turns out that after his cool new haircut, the barber put some gel in his hair which he just LOVED. He was so proud of his cool new do. He was quite disappointed when mommy gave him a bath and shampoo’d his hair and the gel disappeared.

Jul
0

Isaac Drafted into NFL as Youngest Player Ever

Personal

Is it too much pressure on a 2 year old to bank my entire retirement on his future NFL career? I’d even settle for a sub-par team like the Broncos or the Patriots just as long as it wasn’t the Raiders. I’m sure the San Diego Chargers will be calling on Isaac soon after seeing this photo. I’d rather have to work my entire life then to have a son play football for the Raiders :)

He is a natural when it comes to sports. I didn’t teach him to tuck the ball to protect it. He does watch football with me though which is evident in the way he tackles other kids. We finally figured that one out. I guess watching football can be a little confusing for young kids as they see grown ups yelling, screaming and trying to destroy the person across from them. Hmmm…

Apr
2

Batteries are Full of Protein!

Personal

Notice anything strange in this x-ray of my 2 year old son? The little dot at the bottom is not a raisin, grape or any other food substance. It is a watch battery from circa 1988. The battery was in the LEGO drawer mixed in with the massive collection of LEGOs from my childhood. I was always really big on the city, town and early space LEGOSs. I just never got into the castle series or the newer Star Wars/movie stuff. Go with the classic ones.

Anyway… Isaac and I were playing LEGOS and we found the battery. Being the responsible parent that I am, I put it aside to throw away but got distracted building the coolest helicopter in the world. Do keep in mind building something awesome out of LEGOs and building something awesome that will be somewhat 2-year-old safe are too different things. Needless to say, I spent some serious time and energy on this copter and it lasted throughout the day! A few hours later at nap time Isaac said “Daddy, I swallowed battery”.  Oops.

Mar
0

Isaac Goes Headfirst Down the Slide. HD Video with Canon 5D

Personal,Photography

This past weekend we took the boys to two different parks on two different days. That’s big time in our household! On Sunday we went to the park up the street from our house and Isaac had free reign of the play structure. I just got my Canon 5D Mark II camera and figured this would be a good time to test out the HD video capabilities the camera possesses. I’ll tell you, it’s not super intuitive like you may expect from Canon.

This video was shot obviously using the Canon 5D Mark II camera and the 70-200 2.8 non IS L series lens. Sorry for the shaky video. I wonder if a IS lens would work in video mode?