Corinne is two today! Unfreakinbelievable.
Sweet Corinne, we love how easily you brighten a room with your amazing personality. We’re amazed by how well you can express yourself and by all the things you can do. We’re grateful to be your parents and to help you to grow into the strong, loving, joyful person you are meant to be.
Happy birthday, Corinne! We celebrate you on this very special day.
If you’re reading this at our website (as opposed to inside your favorite RSS reader), you’ve probably noticed we have a new masthead image. The theme we are using is really nice, but it’s time to start customizing it some. So expect some new images, some new colors, and a more detailed about us page. We’ve been blogging for over three years now, we have almost 500 posts, we have a custom domain, it’s time to have a custom look and feel too. 
Well, it looks like April 3rd is a huge day for geeks in the bay area. Maybe too huge. A friend of mine got me a free pass to WonderCon, which is a comic book convention from April 2nd to April 4th (Friday, Saturday, and Sunday), and I was planning on going that Saturday. Of course April 3rd is also the day of the spring MiniCon at Endgame. I’m not always able to, but I really like to run things at the MiniCons. This time, however, it’s going to be Corinne and I at WonderCon. Bummer.
Okay, enough about The Vegan Collection! They’re jerks, and we need to move on.
The big news is Corinne is almost two years old. Yea, I know, already? It’s true, she turns 2 on Monday. Needless to say we’re throwing a birthday bash for her this weekend. The guest list is fairly exclusive, and it’s going to be the in thing for the 2 and under set this weekend. Okay, not really. But because of the storms we’re having it at our house, and we were only able to invite Corinne’s friends and their immediate families.
We spent last weekend on house stuff, and our downstairs living room looks a lot nicer. We’re almost ready to buy that large screen TV. The weekend before that we went to the birthday party for one of Corinne’s friends, and I played in my monthly CthulhuTech game.
Corinne is doing well. Is it normal for child under 2 to have memorized her books? She’s as good at reciting them as I am, and I’m reading the things. She still loves Caillou, but her new things are The Wonder Pets and Yo Gabba Gabba. The strange thing is we don’t even have cable, and she’s still hooked on these shows.
Last night I discovered an application that will allow me to write and upload blog posts directly from my phone. I can’t imagine writing anything but a short update using it, and I’m sure the rate of spelling and grammar errors is going to go way up. On the other hand it could make writing quick updates incredibly convenient.
Other than that things are fairly quiet. No news is good news, I guess.
In the wake of the recent earthquakes in Okinawa and Chile, I thought I would re-post the link to 72Hours, the City of San Francisco disaster preparedness website. Our disaster kit and plan is in pretty good shape, but we still have some loose ends to take care of. How about you? Do you have a plan?
I just wanted to let everyone know that last night The Vegan Collection issued us a partial refund last night. They gave us back the price of the shoes, tax, and half of the return shipping. They said splitting the return shipping costs was “fair” because although they sent us shoes that were 3 sizes too small, the shoes themselves weren’t actually defective.
To be honest I’m happy we got at least some of our money back. I was expecting them to keep everything. But I will certainly never buy anything from The Vegan Collection again.
This whole thing is sad.
