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the server hangs continue .. sorry about that… I now think its either bad memory or flaky disk .. in any case when its up blog access is better for me. For instance, its now fall and GrendelSweets is now back at the Campbell farmers market so I’m posting via the free internet at Blendz (thank you !!) its right next to the Starbucks (which used to charge) and is reachable throughout the whole market.

It looks like this may be the last market I attend for a while as Gilbert decided to bite his sitter this morning and she figured it was time to quit .. we’ll have to find another one before I start the Sonics commute in November. He’s been a bit more aggressive lately and we’re not sure why.

On the home front Elena’s been scanning the real-estate listings in Seattle pretty closely .. we’re starting to see more houses that we might be interested in, so we’ve been sending Kat on prelim drive-bys … I still think it may take up to a year+ to find what we want but you never know..

No sooner than I start publishing my new gallery address widely then my server bombs out hard .. it’d been just a bit touchy in the past, but then it went belly up badly. I ended up swapping motherboards and chassis, hopefully it’ll be stable going forward.

In any case I finished organizing the europe trip and the laguna seca motogp races pictures.. I still need to comment europe but I have to find my notebook first. Next up, the large set of china pictures .. including my dad’s old village.

We had a house guest from Toronto for the week, one of Elena’s friends, she was in town scouting for her convention, but while she was here she redid our deck/garden .. maybe when I get a chance I’ll stick Cracker’s cam out there for a view.

Elena’s back from the Toronto International Film Festival where she met the Producer of Beowulf and Grendel. He distributed GrendelSweets chocolates for the world premire of his movie.

Now that she’s back the birdies are much happier now .. in a spoiled kinda way. I managed not to make much more of a mess but neither did I finish the bulk of my photo organizing .. soon though .. and after that I can start on the comments.

I did manage to reach my friend Sandra in Houston, and luckily her whole family made it out of New Orleans before Katrina, however they’re now driving her crazy at her house …

Not quite swimmingly..

Normally I write one line movie reviews on my home page .. the blog may make it easier, or it may not .. we’ll see.

If you’ve been getting sporadic access to either my website or the photo gallery its probably because I’ve had an ongoing hardware problem with the new server .. I think its solved now, so I can get back to catagorizing the slew of old photos I said I’d post.

Mostly they’re the big travel events, Europe in 2002 and China in 2004, all the pics are there, but without captions or organization so don’t be surprised that some of the sub-albums are empty while I’m moving things around.

I did manage to catch up on my one line movie reviews .. but you’ll have to go to the main page to see them, I’m still contemplating keeping that and having the blog separate .. most folks seem to be using the blog format for their whole site. It may make it easier to make entries but I think I have more layout freedom with plain pages.