ingrid dominates UNO, ages 7+ my ass.
playing UNO with the shark
February 7th, 2010knitted awesomeness
February 7th, 2010thx silvita!
Donald Troup
February 2nd, 2010You were actual size, but you seemed much bigger to me. We will miss you.
January 1920 ~ February 2010
Planetpayne gets a facelift!
January 31st, 2010Over a year in the making, the new planetpayne.com is finally live! It’s been a long time coming I know, but the truth is I don’t like to do anything half ass and I wanted this update to be big. Most of the old photos from planetpayne have been migrated over, and about 2,500 new photos have been added. I have also spent most of the time working on this site building an automated system that makes adding images from my iPhoto library a breeze, which will mean more photos, more often!
For those of you who kept tabs on planetpayne with a RSS feed, you will most likely have to add this feed again as the URL has changed from /home/ to /blog/. Anyway, let me know if you find any weird bugs. I will be fiddling with the site over the next few days so if you see something weird, give it a few minutes and it might magically fix itself.
Oh and by the way, this site will most likely look like crap in IE 6. If you’re using IE 6, please don’t. If you really love IE 6 or are afraid of change and want to tell me about IE 6 bugs, please don’t. I may currently value your friendship and I would hate for that to end once I learn that you still use IE 6 :). That said, there are probably IE 7 & 8 bugs, but I will iron those out shortly. In the meantime do everyone a favor and use a browser that doesn’t suck, like Firefox or Safari.
Ta da!
January 27th, 2010I finally finished Ingrid’s purse. It was Ingrid’s idea to add the flower. I wasn’t into it at first but now it’s growing on me. The flower makes it more girlish, more Ingrid. The pattern is from a calendar my mom gave me, which features one knitting project for each day of the year. This project was sometimes a headache (lots of ripping rows), but I got to learn some useful tricks, like Chevron patterning, moss stitch, and mattress seaming. I already have my next project picked out… actually, the next two!
Check out Ingrid’s new shoes while you’re looking, she’s told me she loves them about a hundred times so far.
Brotherly love
January 25th, 2010Actually, Otto was not agreeable to Pluto’s plan. Lucky for Pluto, I was on the couch to stop Otto from attacking Pluto.
gator farm!
January 24th, 2010
daddy gets a sand massage
January 23rd, 2010
South Miami
January 20th, 2010We’re staying close to Fort Lauderdale for a week or so, because Andrew needs to go in to the local Sun office for work. We’re somewhere between Everglades and the coast, about 30 minutes from each. There are fun things to do in the area, but it’s only day two and we’re still in shock from how wonderful the weather is, so the only thing on the agenda today is being outside and relaxing.
This morning I finally got my butt in gear and went for a jog. They have a paved path around this RV park which is about a mile long. The dogs and I jogged only two and a half miles, but it was very pleasant. There are tropical trees and lizards and song birds and everyone here is in a fabulous mood. True, they are all quite a bit older than us, but it’s clear to me that they are having the time of their lives; most are reading books outside or walking or bicycling. The happy people and the perfect weather have lulled us into a lazy, euphoric state. Even the dogs looked happy during our jog and they sat outside and actually relaxed for a change, instead of whining incessantly.
Yesterday Ingrid and I worked on building a butterfly kite from a kit that Amanda gave her for her birthday. It looks good but I don’t know how well it will actually fly. We’re going to need some help from Andrew to get the engineering part done. Ingrid has been asking to build a kite for a year now, and I’m very happy to finally get to it.
The last place we stayed, near Tampa, was Alafia River State Park. I thought our lack of planning would really do us in this time, but so far we’ve had excellent luck in finding places to stay in Florida. I called Alafia the day before, and someone had just cancelled. We got to stay two nights at a campground that has been booked for eight months. I can see why, the park was beautiful and had some surprisingly wicked mountain bike trails, plus it’s only $20 a night and that includes water and electric! There were alligators in the river so we couldn’t go in but Ingrid and I enjoyed bike riding and just walking around and seeing the different trees and birds. I made a mental note to come back some day.
Today’s knitting project
January 20th, 2010I wish I’d used a more colorful yarn, but this was what I had on hand, leftover from a failed daddy-hat. This was my first time doing yarn-overs and slip-slip-knits. Never mind that Ingrid complained about being too hot and took it off 1 minute after the photo. Knitting is fun!!!
