Manny's World

Sunday, December 27, 2009

Menudo! It's what's for breakfast...

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Saturday, December 26, 2009

Installing the gift that Santa brought me- internet and iPhone enabled deadbolt!

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What the hell? Why would you put wings on pants? It doesn't make sense...

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Friday, December 25, 2009

Whoa- I'm gonna be an Uncle!

Monday, December 21, 2009

The iPhone never ceases to amaze me...

Thursday, December 17, 2009

I love living in Santa Barbara!

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Wednesday, December 16, 2009

Making candy trains at school

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Monday, December 14, 2009

Monday night cocktails with @americancliche

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Saturday, December 12, 2009

We took Hannah to the beach for the first time today...

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Wednesday, December 9, 2009

It's what's for breakfast...

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Monday, December 7, 2009

iPhone peeps: check out the new Dragon Dictation speech to text program by Nuance. Very functional- and free...

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Friday, December 4, 2009

Poor Hannah!

Sunday, November 29, 2009

Saying "cheese" while waiting for Kai to finish Yu-Gi-Oh!

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Beautiful Sunday in SB: took Hannah for a morning walk @ Shoreline, breakfast burritos @ Mexican Fresh, then took Kai out to surf the last part of this swell. In November, even!

Monday, November 23, 2009

New baby!

New baby!

Sunday, November 22, 2009

Forcing the family into psychic servitude...

Saturday, November 21, 2009

Woohoo! Vieja Valley 3rd/4th grade flag football team takes the city championship undefeated!

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At SBCC for the city championship for flag football.

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Thursday, November 19, 2009

Kai flexes his mind...

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Monday, November 16, 2009

A sizable weapons cache was discovered in the foothills of Santa Barbara today...

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Friday, November 13, 2009

So we're having dinner on the patio at Fresco...

and we're approached mid-chew by two pleasant young women selling "dreamcatchers" for the Unitarian Church. Really, Unitarian Church? You interrupt dinner to sell dreamcatchers? How gauche!

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Rockin' the crossfade and spinning mad remixes...

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Wednesday, November 11, 2009

Bejeweled Blitz is now available for the iPhone. If I had any chance of productivity, it's gone now...

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Bike ride out through deepest Goleta

Updated spider pic for Connie...

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Sunday, November 8, 2009

Tasted a 600,000 Scoville unit hot sauce tonight- outrageous!

At my folks' house in Santa Maria, modding a Nerf gun.

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Saturday, November 7, 2009

My wonderful wife, who's in Omaha, calls me at 7:30 this AM, while I'm still asleep, then hangs up before I answer it. Why? Because it was too early to call...

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For my Mac-using peeps, free apps! Well, they ask for your email address... http://www.macheist.com/

Friday, November 6, 2009

Big spider in the carport...

Thursday, November 5, 2009

Congratulations, Kai!

Kai's a new Grandpa! There's at least three little chirping beaks in there...

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Wednesday, November 4, 2009

Hawkin' t-shirts at school...

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The central message of Buddhism is not "every man for himself"... - Wanda

Tuesday, November 3, 2009

Mmmm- watermelon sorbet!

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FPS for the iPhone? Yes, please!

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Monday, November 2, 2009

Buoyed by the success of a brake job on his scooter, Manny challenges the toilet to clear an obstruction and change the wax ring- and wins handily! I rule!

And so it begins: we recieved confirmation yesterday from one of Kai's friends that someone "likes likes" him (she likes to watch him do "funny things" like "fall down"); Kai, like his father remains clueless about such things, and rather, focuses on Yu-G

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Sunday, November 1, 2009

Ah, the crisp fall days of November!

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Saturday, October 31, 2009

My sage advice to my son: Never kiss a girl that has a cold sore. Or any other sore for that matter.

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Thursday, October 29, 2009

Is now a published photographer! Granted, it's for a Public Information journal for fire prevention in Germany, but still...

Wednesday, October 28, 2009

In Santa Maria, saying goodbye to my Aunt.

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Tuesday, October 27, 2009

Woot-off! http://www.woot.com/

Sunday, October 25, 2009

Kai helps his cousin find a tattoo...

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Saturday, October 24, 2009

Go Gauchos!

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Rootin' shootin' @ The Winchester Gun Club

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Friday, October 23, 2009

Loves that my family is capable of laughing through a loss.

Tuesday, October 20, 2009

The rooter guys came and cleared the drain in about 5 minutes- of course, the snake he used was about 5 times the length of mine and had an electric motor. Talk about feeling inadequate...

Monday, October 19, 2009

Make no mistake: just because I can take a p-trap apart does not mean I know what the Hell I'm doing.

Saturday, October 17, 2009

The team took their first loss AND I forgot the snack. Bad Assistant Coach! No steak for you!

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Sunday, October 11, 2009

Lookin' sharp in downtown SB!

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Friday, October 9, 2009

Just invoked the "8-second rule" in the name of Hemingway- because he wouldn't have let that mozzarella stick go to waste, either.

Wreaking havoc with SB's local online news and opinion site.

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Gray day and "Garden State" soundtrack making me groggy...

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Just gotta say this stuff pretty much rules! Thanks, Doug!

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Thursday, October 8, 2009

Watching all the neighborhood kids playing hide-and-go-seek in the cul-de-sac at sunset; that's what childhood is all about!

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Thinking the "carbon footprint" of all those Volvos circling Whole Foods' parking lot must about the size of Denver...

Wandering around the new Whole Foods Market- can't find the beef lard, MSG, or Twinkies. I guess I'm not looking hard enough...

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Wednesday, October 7, 2009

Kai, lifting his shirt and showing his belly at soccer practice: "It's a weapon of mass destruction!"

Kai, lifting his shirt and showing his belly at soccer practice: "It's a weapon of mass destruction!"

Kai, lifting his shirt and showing his belly at soccer practice: "It's a weapon of mass destruction!"

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Monday, October 5, 2009

Let's not beat around the bush, shall we?

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Saturday, October 3, 2009

Off to see "Zombieland"...

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Driving around Vegas off the Strip, running into detour after detour; what a horrible layout this town has...

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Friday, October 2, 2009

Watching Drax's and US forces have a laser battle in Moonraker.

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Sitting in an Irish pub with Irishmen eating Irish food and drinking Irish cider. And I turned $20 into $60!

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Collateral damage on someone's trip to Vegas...

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Thursday, October 1, 2009

So two Irishmen and a Filipino drive to Vegas...

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Tuesday, September 29, 2009

Yeesh. Up at 5 AM and couldn't get back to sleep, so I was constructive and cleaned the kitchen.

Sunday, September 27, 2009

Back from the Central Coast Scooterists reunion in Santa Maria- had a great time, reconnected with a bunch of old friends, and met some new folks. Thanks to Chad, Josh, and everyone else for putting it together, look forward to the next time!

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Friday, September 25, 2009

Picture day @ school. The tie was his idea- it has a zippered neck loop, so he claims it's a "gadget"; that's my boy!