Rice-A-Roni anyone?

Rice-A-Roni anyone?
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We went to SF for good times and old friends.

It was Ira's first trip to the big city. He liked it, but then this kid is pretty much up for anything.



We met up with Les, who was in town for a wedding. We love Les! She's just about the coolest, down to earth person you'll ever meet. She showed us Tartine in the Mission and she lives thousands of miles away. I had a mind-blowing grilled goat cheese sandwich.



Yeah, so we totally had a blast, but towards the end, both Ira and I felt a little like this.




Today I'm feeling kind of crabby, and so is babers. His excuse is diarrhea and I don't really have an excuse. But lately, I find the following things especially irritating:

1. Just about 3 out of 5 PT Cruisers have some kind of Betty Boop doo-dad on them.
2. Parking at Trader Joe's (all locations).
3. My neighbor's barking dogs.


Glad I got that off of my chest.

Code Monkey blog moved

Leon ready for hiking
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Leon's blog can now be found here. A bit to his discomfort, his mom outed his blog to the extended family. While his blog is certainly not private, he likes to keep it amongst friends. He made a new URL, now with 100% more e's!

Put that in your Bloglines and smoke it.

Hey!

Hey!
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This morning, I went with Mariah and Roxy to channel 31 studios. They were featuring her chihuahua meet up group, so Ira and I tagged along. She got interviewed by Tina Macuha.





We talked to Nick Toma!!! I tried to be funny, but I just kind of fell flat. We were looking at all the chihuahuas and then it got quiet. The following transpired.

Me: It would be awesome if all of these dogs could assemble to form a big, giant dog that could dominate all other dogs. [My next line was going to be "like voltron." But then I remembered that Nick Toma is like 15 years older than me and probably doesn't know about voltron, so I left that part out.]

Nick Toma: Heh.

Then he walked away. I'm such a nerd!!

I made it...with my own HANDS!

For Ira
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The other day, Ira zeroed in on a small tag on the side of my tank top. This thing was super tiny and he went right for it. I also started noticing that he can fiddle with the tags on his plush toys for days. I wanted to buy him a Taggie, which are these blankety toys that are supposed to be interesting to baby. Different shapes and textures of ribbon go around it and I guess babies are into that. Whatevs. So these things are like $30 bucks or something. I had 80% of the materials in my sewing box, so I decided to make our own. Pow! Take that, unnecessary baby items industry!

For father's day, we took Leon out to Cornerstone. Thank goodness their conditional pass (yellow card) was finally changed to green. Though I did find a sausage in my potato platter, it still tasted great and hey, they didn't charge me extra for the meat. I decided to let it go. Later on we went to my cousin's place to celebrate all the dads in the family. My family fascinates me. There are so many characters. We have our cholos, cabrons, a metrosexual dude, a biker dude, even a maricon, and an aging hippy. Just when I think I've figured them out, they surprise me. Like, when we visited for easter, they were all gathered around the TV watching (not Shrek 2 for the umpteenth time) but a fighting DVD. And not like sports fighting such as boxing, karate, wrestling or UFC, but street fighting. On easter! Or take this, on father's day, they were enjoying the PGA tournament and cheering on Tiger Woods. What, no more fighting DVDs? And for a long time, I thought they were a Raiders family (even I stereotype my own people), but no; they're die hard Forty Niners fans! I love my family functions. They're never boring.