last updated Sunday, July 13th, 2008
  March 2008
 

We took a road trip to Minnesota for a conference and also took in some sights. We passed through Iowa as well, but there was nothing there.
Luke at the Mall of America
St. Paul's Cathedral in the aptly
named city of St. Paul

Sam levitating a ball at the
Science Museum of Minneapolis
Luke and Brian meet Richard Dawkins!
 Behold the power of the Twine Ball!
 
All of the Minnesota photos are online here.
  July 2007
 

We moved out of California and hit the road for Missouri. Along the way we felt an unexplainable compelling force to stop at Devil's Tower in Wyoming and also visited the Crazy Horse and Mount Rushmore monuments in South Dakota.
  George and Skippy at Devil's Tower Danny, Luke and Samantha next
to a 1/35th scale model of the
Crazy Horse monument

More bars in more places!
 
All of the Rushmore photos are online here.
  June 2007
  Departing from San Francisco, we set out on a 10 day Alaskan cruise along the inside passage with stops in Ketchikan, Juneau, Skagway and Victoria, BC.
 
 
Off-roading in Ketchikan
At the marina in Ketchikan
Tammy and Sam on the ship
At a salmon bake in Juneau
   
 

All of the Alaskan photos are online here.
  July 2006
 

Luke and I ran the 5 mile Buffalo Chips Fourth of July Run in Sacramento. We both saw major improvments in our mile pace: Luke's finish time was 40:34 (8:07/mile pace) and my time was 38:47 (7:45/mile pace).
Snow skiing in July! Luke and I spent the first weekend in July at Mammoth for the final days of skiing before the slopes shutdown for the summer. We also travelled to nearby Devil's postpile where an ancient lava flow cooled and formed completely unnatural-looking hexagonal columns rising up from the valley floor.

Luke comes down St. Anton at Mammoth
July 3rd, 2006

Luke and I standing below Devil's Postpile
Top of the columns (inset)
  June 2006
 

Luke began his second year at Cal State Sacramento's ATS (Advanced Talent Search) academic program. He's taking Algebra 2 this year.
  May 2006
  Luke and I ran in Folsom's Run With Nature on May 20th, 2006.

10K Finish Time: 54:49.6
Position: 82 out of 286
8:50/Mile Pace

5K Finish Time: 26:38.2
Position: 70 out of 382
8:35/Mile Pace
  January 2006
  Tammy ran the P.F. Chang's Rock and Roll Marathon in Phoenix, AZ on January 15th.
Travelling to Idaho to collect a 1954 Chevy pickup.
  August 2005
  I ran the San Francisco marathon on July 31st, 2005.
  October 2004
 
   
  September 2004
  Started training for the marathon, this time I'm really, really, really going to do it.
April 2004
StationRipper let's you rip MP3s directly from live Internet music broadcasts. Just tell it which stations to rip from, and let it do it's thing in the background. My only complaint is that the MP3 ID tags aren't typically broadcast cleanly, so the beginning and/or ends of songs tend to get cut off. But worth checking out nonetheless.
January 2004
The official DFS site is up and running sort of...
November 2003
We've moved from Southern California to Folsom, CA, 20 miles east of Sacramento due to the growth of the business, Network Corps. Cold and wet, but also very nice.
   
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