Archive for October, 2007

Lane update, 14mos

Saturday, October 27th, 2007

Lane is now 14 months old and cuter than ever. Here is an update on his new skills and activities.

Lane still has only 8 teeth, but on the upper gum, just peeking through, are the tips of two new molars coming in. That’ll be good – molars are useful!
Speaking of teeth, only other [...]

Welcome Little Gus

Wednesday, October 24th, 2007

Lane’s new cousin has arrived. Gustaf Edward Lawson III was born after 5pm Eastern time, 8 lbs 15 oz, 21 inches long. Mom, dad, and baby are doing fine. Congratulations!

Back in the office

Wednesday, October 24th, 2007

The fires continue to rage but according to the latest maps it is pretty far from us now. QC offices are still in “work from home” status, but I have come in to the office. I don’t think the air is that bad here, although one of my co-workers came and left because [...]

Fire Update

Tuesday, October 23rd, 2007

The fires continue to rage out of control. They are heading straight to the coast, north of us (mostly — there are some fires to the south, but waaay south). This whole thing is very surreal and scary. I didn’t sleep well last night and felt guilty about it, being lucky enough [...]

Guest room

Monday, October 22nd, 2007

If anyone needs a place to stay, we have a guest room…

All’s well

Monday, October 22nd, 2007

Today Tad & I are home from work due to the fires raging throughout San Diego county (and parts of the city) today, deja vu of four years ago. The good news for us personally is that the Cedar Fire in 2003 really burned a lot of the fuel leading up to our house, [...]

All work and no play…

Thursday, October 18th, 2007

A couple of weeks ago I’d started a blog entry about our camping trip to Indian Flats & Palomar Mountain, and was nearly done, when my computer crashed. After that, I didn’t have the time/energy to start over. Life has been beyond crazy lately, but finally things may be easing up. I [...]