music: Cool “meta” video from They Might Be Giants: The Making of Electric Car Mr. Stinky Feet gives back social networking: Are you ready for Twitpocalypse Redux? Wow… Shutterfly is different from the last time I went … neat looking “blogs”! Love how I can take a Word file emailed to my gmail acct, open…
photo friday: urban landscape
The Photo Friday challenge for last week was “Urban Landscape.” This week’s challenge is “Fear.”
what i learned today
social networking: Google owns a microblogging service called Jaiku. My “handle” is gbkgwyneth. I shouldn’t say bacon when I mea meatless breakfast strips (aka “fake bacon”). We’re paying too much for our webhoster. We have the basic plan, but the silver plan costs what we are currently paying and offers more benefits, like mySQL. work…
social networking for work
Today at work, I attended a virtual meeting regarding choosing the right social networking tool. When I first had access to the IBM network while our company was being integrated, I was surprised, and overwhelmed, at the various social networking choices that were available within IBM. I’ve heard all the reasons that people don’t like…
sun and surf
As happy as I was to get home and stay home for more than a couple days, after two weeks I knew that I needed to get away. The drudgery of being at home was getting to me. Even if I can’t get away from the homeschooling and work, a change of scenery always helps…
quidditch, stormtroopers and the mario bros.
Every year, the streets of Atlanta are stormed by fairies, darth vaders and everything in between. Even though we’ve been living here for 10 years, I had never managed to make it to the annual Dragon*Con parade. This year I vowed to finally make it there to witness the Stormtroopers marching down Peachtree. What an…
photofriday: seaside
The Photo Friday challenge for last week was “Seaside.” I didn’t submit an entry, but here’s my favorite seaside photo from the week. From Myrtle Beach – Aug/Sept 2009 This week’s challenge is “Urban Landscape.”
photofriday: school
The Photo Friday challenge for last week was “School.” I didn’t submit an entry, but here’s my favorite school photo from the week. Not artistic, but does show one part of “school” here at our house: This week’s challenge is “Seaside.” As my idea is to not go through my old photos, but to submit…
homeschooling again
That was a long break away from this blog!! In the meantime, we have posted Episode #6 of gbkZoo, interviewed Princess Katie and Racer Steve for our “Giving Back Kids: KindieCares” segment on our radio blog Gooney Bird Kids, and cleaned/rearranged many rooms in the house. Now we are settling into a homeschooling routine again….
gbkZoo videocast Episode #6
After a long hiatus, the GBKids have posted the sixth episode of their videocast! This episode includes Cooking Fun, Mega Lego Mess and Video Birthday Card featuring the song “Birthday Bit” from Recess Monkey . Stay tuned for future episodes, and please keep the fan mail as well as math problems for Chloe coming in….
making lists
As our year of having an apartment in DC is coming to a close, I’m working on my list of the things I WON’T miss. Then maybe I won’t feel so sad about no having a place in DC. I won’t miss: the desk lamp that is masquerading as a bedside lamp and which burns…
Peter Himmelman in the rumpus room
Our year in DC is coming to a close. While I doubt that it was our last Rumpus Room Concert (we had been to 3 or 4 before this year), it is our last for a while. And what fun it was! A nice crowd came out to see Peter Himmelman. I wasn’t sure if…
Milkshake at Jammin’ Java
Less than a week after our last journey there, we headed back to Jammin’ Java, this time to go to the CD release party for Milkshake. Unfortunately, the UPS guy couldn’t find Lisa’s house yesterday and there were no new CDs available. Instead, Lisa gave a price break on the DVD and gave away posters…
Robbie Schaefer, chloe’s bff
With Robbie’s big news this week, we knew we had to get to the Robbie Schaefer kids’ show at Jammin’ Java this morning and wish his safe travels. Robbie is heading to Uganda this evening for a wonderful kids’ music exchange. To read more, visit Robbie’s blog. The show at Jammin’ Java, though a Sunday…
banjo to beatbox at wolf trap
Thanks to Facebook, I realized that Cathy and Marcy would be at Wolf Trap today, performing in their “Banjo to Beatbox” series (I think all day I wrote it backwards — apologies!). We arranged to meet there with a French coworker of mine whom we never met up with while in Nice last week. I’d…
Lunch Money in the Rumpus Room
Today we were thrilled to get back to the Rumpus Room at XM in DC after over a month and see Lunch Money perform live in the XM LiVE Performance Studio! We always love to hear Lunch Money live, and while we heard a couple of the new ones in NY, we heard another couple…
and home again
Barbara woke early to repack. The girls got up a little after that, and we all headed down to breakfast. Our last in France. Not great, but not terrible. Chloe got a boiled egg, but it was part of the English breakfast and therefore soft-boiled. Blech. Barbara left for her flight; the girls and I…
Vorey to Roissy
I woke early from being too cold! I could tell that we were in the mountains! The light was fantastic, too. Everyone else slept a bit later, so I read for a while. There were not many people in the restaurant for breakfast, so it was quite relaxing. We did run out of coffee and…
NIce to Vorey
Barbara and Suze got up very early to get to the airport. When Barbara returned, I got up and worked on packing and helping to clean up. We were ready to leave at about 9:30, but didn’t know how to “check out.” Barbara made some calls, then walked to the car park to get the…
Harry Potter in Nice
Barbara and Suze decided to take the bus to the Matisse and Chagall museums. The girls and I went out to “go shopping.” I am a terrible shopper and don’t much enjoy it, but Chloe loved it. She even managed to buy herself a dress and some Littlest Pet Shop toys. Neither Camille nor I…