EDIT: Killed hte java plug in, it was only funny for a bit.

Fear, doubt, worry… and maybe hope are what we are going through right now. I’m still technically employed until the 27th but that is my severance so I’m useing that time to find a new gig.

Same day we entered into escrow on our old house too, talk about a day full of highs and lows.

We had some fun dramma a bit ago, kaily lost her Hello Kitty doll. After a week or so of tearful bed times and me driving around to find it I finally bit the bullet and went shopping on my last day of vacation. This turned into a 12 store jaunt since her particular doll was only available at Christmas and so I had to go track down a store with back stock. Eventually success was had and kaily is none the wiser though she did note that boy Hello Kitty sure was clean :p.

No real fathers day plans. Think we will just be busy unpacking and waiting for direct tv to show up.

Still trying to get docs to the close the house, the lenders are acting totally nutty and throwing everybody curves by pretty much randomly changing what has been a pretty set business process for a long time, and just demanding weird things. Anyway with a little luck we might actual close this next week. Course then Charise would like to wait until schools out to move but I’m not sure I can handle a month more of waiting.

Busy weekend, Saturday we had Richard (my Mom’s hubby’s) Birthday party up in SF. We went out to Yang Sing which is a very good (and insanely exspensive) Dim Sum place. Then the kids put on a play :).

I did get a new toy the other day off of craigslist on the cheap, factory sealed. The guy had a pretty good story as to why he had it, so I’m telling myself it didn’t just fall of the back of a truck (they got a couple at cost then didn’t need them etc, meh, maybe).
It wasn’t that much cheaper then Amazon actually (a bit) but I could get it first thing in the morning and I really needed it to go find some place in Los Altos (charise needed her hybrid with the integrated one), so I’m calling it a win.

I have some mixed feelings on the unit over all, but it dose seem to be fairly solid for point A to point B type stuff and that is always critical detail and surprisingly not all companies get that little detail right :p. So here is a brief man on the street feature/impression type review as I discovered them.

Note the page breaks on the full article page. I’ll see if I can get a picture of my UI from it.

Got a unkind letter from the IRS claiming we made a lot more money then we did (the options had been treated as income correctly accept one 16 dollar one). Our tax person Lisa Berling is getting it fixed, that won’t be cheap but it’s better then me arguing with them, Lisa tends to win :). Anyway I’m prety sure we didn’t do anything wrong and it’s a just a reporting reconciliation issue. Not like I have that sort of problem with socialtet stock :p.

House stuff is moving along. I think we are on the final leg. Big problem now is ours is not selling as fast as I had hoped which is making me real gun shy about putting money into the new place. On the other hand the Zillow property value graphs for the area comparing size etc still make the new place look like it will have a really great valuation after we put a of cash into the areas that are dragging it down. I’m less happy with the Zillow projection for sunnyvale :p, but Darren says we are still priced competitively priced and our disclosures show us to be in good shape. Ugh stressful. Probable drop the price a bit after this weekend if there is not a decent offer.

I should have some new kaily pictures up by monday switching around image apps has really messed up my work flow on that stuff.

Geeking out a bit today, tried out a some software for making HDR photo’s. I need to go back and learn how to do manual bracketing on my camera to to maximize the effect. Still kind of Cool, giving a lot of depth. Makes me wonder about some comment I read a year a so ago about the future being HDR photos off of HD video feeds rather then DSLR’s.

This was from when I was messing around up at Squaw valley and was perpetually scared of breaking my camera.

Image pulled. Looks like Zooomr is broken *again*. I might finally have to give up and move anything I’m not hosting over to flickr instead. I really like zooomr but it’s been nothing but problems for months and months. Its a one man army fighting the good fight there but there is a limit to what a user can take.

backup but for how long

I had run across this place last year, really liked it, got Charise all jazzed up about it, we put a in a low ball offer… the other agent jerked us around then they took a different contingent offer. We where pretty bummed. But I kept my little real-estate widget running and noticed immediately when it was listed again. It’s been a pain in the ass of negotiation, but I think there is a very serious long term upside potential to the new place so hopefully it will be worth it. It’s big(ish) almost 2300sqf on a court with a view. The lot is interesting not all of it is very usable (but not backed up to a mountain either) but there are a like of pretty tree’s and it’s a nice quit pocket where you can’t really hear 17.

Now we just have to sell our place in this messed up market… but we have a pretty cute place and it’s a dam fine location so hopefully we will do well enough.

I’m trying hard not to think about some of the little down sides like increased commute time :p.

Course it could all still explode if any of the inspection reports are totally out of whack.

Next up: some snaps from Kaily’s first Ski trip that involved ski’s and a sled

It was great to see Ariana after new years (the walkershaws too). Much Wii bowling was had by all.