UPDATE: Ugly grey border gone!

Just plugged in the new Thesis theme. Turning out to be more coding work than I’d anticipated, and still not entirely happy with the results, but it’s coming along.

Like what up with that ugly grey border around the photo, and how to rid myself of it?

Books drying in Calcutta

Please send chocolate.

At Starbucks, visiting Sandy on Elsie’s birthday. Security photo.

of annoying computer issues, I recently upgraded to WordPress 2.9 and my stylesheet broke. I think this is an issue with the K2 theme, but I’m not sure. Considering a new theme.

One of my few issues with the Snow Leopard upgrade was how Apple chose to ignore the creating application’s launch code. So when I create a .png file, for instance, in FireWorks, and later click that file to open it, it no longer opens in FireWorks, but in Preview. Which stinks, IMO.

Enter LaunchCodes. $5 bucks fixes the problem, rather gracefully.

Sandy and Steph saw Roger Daltry at the Showbox on Monday. Here’s a clip of Baba O’Riley.

Darryl Swenson, in Dhaka Bangladesh, after receiving a warm welcome from community members of Demra Slum, tips his hat to the camera.

Leave it to Stephanie and Kendall to do up Steph’s 40th birthday party just right. The celebration took place at the Ballard Elk’s Club on Saturday, August 8th, and the theme was Prom Night – Forever Young.

Lots of fun was had by all. Here are a few pictures to whet your appetite. The rest are in these 3 galleries:

Formal Shots
Candid Shots
More (not quite so) Formal Shots

Prom Queen and King

Mark and Robin

Anders and Rex

Photo Galleries:
Formal Shots
Candid Shots
More (not quite so) Formal Shots

During the recent heat-wave we had a nocturnal visitor to our daughter’s backyard pool. Not only did this raccoon thoroughly trash the pool itself, by the time it was through with its swim, it had dragged the garden hose over to the pool in an attempt to refill it with water. We caught a little bit of his antics on film though our bedroom window.

Raccoon in the pool.

The morning after the night before (note the hose in the pool).

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Nightshot of raccoon frolicking in the pool. (The clip takes a while to load – sorry, it was shot at 2 in the morning..:-)

On a sunny Seattle afternoon in the merry month of May, Elsie got her golden locks trimmed for the very first time. Sandy had pondered the style (bob) and the timing (now) long enough and took scissors to hand, Stella shot video, Frances gathered curls into a ziplock for posterity’s sake, Aunt Steffi offered artistic guidance, and Elsie put on a brave face and sat through the ordeal as if she’s been to the salon on a regular basis for years and years.

I took pictures. Here are a few of the good ones:

On a recent trip to India I stumbled upon a graveyard of used gods and goddesses. It was hard to tell them apart.

Playing For Change | Song Around The World “Stand By Me” from Concord Music Group on Vimeo.