I’ve been genuinely busy (really!) and generally not able to commit an hour of brain time to write a decent blog entry. Some of that was self inflicted: I committed to playing cello with the Stanford Savoyards latest production of the Gondoliers, and that more or less killed three consecutive weekends right there. Beyond that, Susan [...] » Read more

A lot can happen in one hundred and nine days. Susan has been sick the last few months, and is still sick. She’s had to go to the hospital twice. We were lucky to have her discharged just prior to Christmas, and her parents flew out to help make it more festive here, but it seems [...] » Read more

Our familes will have to fly in from opposite ends of North America to our wedding in Berkeley (more details forthcoming when I get the website up and going). We wondered what the geographic average of their hometowns would be. The answer is a cornfield in Nebraska. (If you think the map is off, remember [...] » Read more

My subconscious is repressed enough for me generally not to remember my dreams when I wake up, but lately there was an exception. The dream started with me being home (a long time ago, still the grocery store) from university for lunch, just finishing up and about to walk back to school. As dream logic goes: [...] » Read more

We spent last weekend in Southern California, sweltering through a heat wave at Disneyland, being tourists in Hollywood, and attending the world premiere of Wall-E at the Greek Theatre. Getting to go was Susan’s privilege as a lead on the film and I got to tag along and pretend to be famous. Although not your [...] » Read more

As of last weekend, Susan and I are now finally engaged! Here’s the proposal story: Saturday May 3rd was the fifth year anniversary of our first date – the Finding Nemo wrap party – and I decided that was going to be the big day. I had the diamond since a little before Christmas (hidden [...] » Read more

So there’s that orchestra thing I do, every Wednesday I lug my cello to Cal State East Bay in Hayward, dump fourteen quarters into a parking meter, and practice for a couple of hours. Our spring end of quarter concert is coming up next Wednesday, March 5th. We’re playing Prokofiev’s Classical Symphony, Brahms’ Variations on [...] » Read more

The majority of my friends and peers have always been older than I am, so carping about my new status as a trigenarian garners little to no sympathy. I seek solace instead in a poem by one of my favorite authors, Lewis Carroll, from Alice in Wonderland: “Father William”. “You are old, Father William,” the young [...] » Read more

It’s one of those times in my life where I have too much going on. Came down with a cold, but mostly recovered in time to spend last week in Vancouver with family; Dad included, first time in seven years. Dad gave me a Leica M6 camera and lens, and I’m now faced with the [...] » Read more

We drove up to Ashland this past Friday to attend the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, since we both needed the R&R away from our computers for a weekend. I’d driven through Ashland before on my way from Seattle to Oakland, and thought it to be one of those quaint towns where we could spend a day [...] » Read more