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I just called my insurance company (Amica) and updated the mileage we drive on the cars. Since we drive fewer miles nowadays, we saved $200/year. :-)

Was: 10,000/year and 6,000/year. Now 6,000/year and 5,200/year. (apparently, insurance costs about $0.04/mile)

Megan and I were woken up with a start at 2:41 this morning by an earthquake! It lasted just a few seconds and we fell right back to sleep. It didn’t even wake Abigail. The USGS says it was 4.7 centered in Berkeley!

In context, things are pretty ok here. Just today my friend Nick in the northeast sent me pix of a scene right outside his window, a big chemical spill, nearly 3 feet of dihydrogen monoxide solid precipitate blanketing his neighborhood! Thankfully they are all safe for now!

Happy New Year to the world from Megan, Abigail and Lee! And thanks to Zeke for the photos of us at Thanksgiving and Christmas!

Eventually, you’ll grow up and stop believing in magic. And then eventually, you’ll grow up and believe in magic again.

– Me after going to Burning Man 2009

It’ll be Abigail and I at home alone during the day on Tuesday thru Thursday this week. Call me if you’d like to come over for a visit!

We are very happy with the living, potted tree we are fostering from Forever Green Christmas Trees. This is the second year we took Fiona into our home and we’re happy we did it. Explaining to Abigail about the living nature of the tree has been a joy. The highlight is that over Memorial Day weekend we visited our Christmas tree near Mount Shasta at a camp-out weekend! The owners, Patrick and Laura are the best!

Their last delivery dates for this year are Dec 16 & 17. You can use a promo code for $10 off. “FACEBOOK1” for new Fostering Families to receive $10 off.

We are very happy with the living, potted tree we are fostering from Forever Green Christmas Trees. This is the second year we took Fiona into our home and we’re happy we did it. Explaining to Abigail about the living nature of the tree has been a joy. The highlight is that over Memorial Day weekend we visited our Christmas tree near Mount Shasta at a camp-out weekend! The owners, Patrick and Laura are the best!

Their last delivery dates for this year are Dec 16 & 17. You can use a promo code for $10 off. “FACEBOOK1” for new Fostering Families to receive $10 off.

Here is the manual for our new GE Unitized Spacemaker Washer Dryer
Model: GUD24ESSJ0WW
GE Washer Dryer GUD24

We took the family to Michael’s Crafts looking for fun crafts for a little party we will be hosting for Abigail.
It took 45 minutes to travel each way. It’s usually 25 minutes but there was lots of traffic. Megan beat us there by 20 minutes, went to Panera Bread and had a terrible salad. Michael’s smelled like the inside of a chemical incense candle factory, several of their overhead flickering with nausia-inducing intensity, and the checkout line snaked to… I couldn’t see the end, it was like a 30 minute line. Apparently they were having a big sale. When Abigail arrived, Megan had already toured the store for our shopping list. All she found on our list was a headache. No, wait, that wasn’t on our list but that’s all she got :-(. I was much faster at shopping and got a headache in just the five minutes we were in the store for.

So we fled and went to Toys R Us. We found a couple things for xmas but totally not what we were looking for.

So we fled yet again and looked at some fish and birds at a nearby pet store to calm down.

The retail experience so completely sucks. Amazon, take my money.

I’m thinking of getting a cloud drive (NAS drive…) and want some advice. I want use a Macbook and PC to access my huge photo collection while at home and on the road. Can I set up a cloud drive to “just work” as a network drive both when I’m home and away? Like, can I view photos on the cloud drive through iTunes? Suggestions?

Thanks!