House on Red Corner

First I spilled coffee down my shirt twice. Than, in order to get myself together a bit, I sat on a bench outside - in a wet spot. Great. Pregnancy does this to people.

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After 12 hours in a dark room and 3 more to go, whenever a neurologist says “gait velocity” I hear “gay philosophy”. As in :”a gay philiosphy gain results in better quality of life.”

this was shot in denver, colorado a month ago.

on friday, I was reading the news when i saw an interesting article on slashdot about an organization trying to elect a congressman to the house of representatives. the differential between this organization and your standard fare political party is that the district electorate will be able to vote on every issue in order to technologically guide or advise the representative how to vote and will assist in preparing bills which they want filed as well. i thought “wow! that’s exactly like an idea i used to dream about.”
the really newsworthy thing about this group is that they were looking for a candidate to actually run for office. they were looking for a candidate to run for office, in my district. so of course, i sent them the information that they needed to look at me. essentially, threw my hat into the ring.
six hours later, i read a webpage that described “how to get elected;” you know i am huge on planning ahead[sic]; and then looked at a webpage for the current representative. i got scared and intimidated and retracted my hat.
later in the evening, i received an email acknowledging my retraction and a request that i come interview anyway as i “piqued our[sic] interest.”

so i did.

i showed up with TheBubster had an interview, a report from one of the area news magazines showed up and recorded the interview. i left and dismissed it. you know i could have beat myself up, and said that i answered wrong and should have said this or that, but i just let it lie there as it is and accepted it for whatever it is worth.

i got an email late at night- thanking me and letting me know that i am not running for congress because the organization chose a candidate with more legal experience. i felt relief and disappointment at the same time but mostly i was satisfied that i will not regret this as a missed opportunity- it is so much better to take a chance rather than not and feel defeated for the rest of your life. anyways that was a narrow brush with reality- and now i have a different level of respect for those people who actually do run for office- not that i respect them all the better when they are in office but that’s another story!
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today, TheBubster and I walked all over the town, this it a map of our path, nearly 5 five miles in total.

There has been request to show more pictures, so i have been uploadin gmore images to the flickr account and full viewing access is available in the flickr widget in the left sidebar. These images are some of my personal favorites.

This was taken in a diner on our recent trip to New York. TheBubster is really starting to develop quite a love for balloons, which is fun because it gives me an excuse to keep lots of them around the house

Here she is, enjoying the spoils of watching the Portugal Day parade pass by our house.

A pair of my favorite images from a recent trip to the park to play with the Soccer ball.

I think you can see me at my peak skill level here!

Dancing on the sidewalk!

some monkeying around .

So rather than dwell in the house, and nagging each other to go to the playground for a little bit of time, i bundled TheBubster and I onto the bike and headed off to the Museum of Science.
First, went to a 3D movie called “The World of Sharks.” The Buster reached out numerous times to ‘touch’ the fish swimming by, she also got scared several moments and at one point climbed into my lap but afterwards she was really happy.
We had pizza in the cafe, then we went into the galleries. at one point we were informed that a demonstration was about to take place in the Theatre of Electricity, and we hustled over, leaving our impromptu lecture about dynamically deterministic systems.
In the Theatre, there was a Van de Graaff generator. Not only was it a Van de Graaff generator, but it was the original Van de Graaff generator built by Professor Van de Graaff to smash atoms. There was no atom smashing involved in the demonstration but we did see one crackerjack lightning show. Several older kids had to leave early because they were frightened, but TheBubster stuck through it all and she was really excited by it all.
Then after a couple more hours of exploration in the museum, she fell asleep in the bike seat. First nap in eight months!!

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