To the Moon

Dylan told us tonight that when he grew up that he wanted to take a rocketship to the moon with Daniella. She's in his class at school and he seems pretty fond of her. Sam is kind of sweet on Sophia but insists he only has boyfriends. He wants to be an airplane driver when he grows up. Grown up is six btw, Sam basically says he will be all grown up at six and able to watch scary movies, drive and play golf. I hope he's not all grown up at six.

I spent the day working on Soloso to get it ready for the Convention this week. A board member is doing a demo of it tomorrow for the other board members in San Antonio. I probably should have been there but didn't want to be gone all week. I'm sure it will go fine and I'll do the full hour overview of the out of beta product in Phoenix in September.

Great Falls

We took a trip up to Great Falls on the Virginia side yesterday and met Charlie, his sister and his parents for some 4 year old demolition derby. The boys and are all around the same size and all lack the basic fear of pain so we had quite a few scrums and full body tackles. The boys went to school with Charlie until he moved to Maryland but love playing with him. I took some pictures per usual and posted them to flickr.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/homerclees/sets/72157600151188637/

Cross Creek

Cross Creek
Originally uploaded by homerclees.

Not as good of a round this time but an equally good day. This course is a little tight and I found myself in the woods a fair amount. Oh well, no golf for a few weeks now with lots going on with work and its ok.

ouch

ouch
Originally uploaded by homerclees.

New Shoes = Happiness

Nicole finally picked up the shoes that Sam and Dylan said were super hot. In fact, they are. She didn't get the purse they picked out for her but some shiny red things you wear on your feet picked up her spirits after a hard week. I actually got a new pair of shoes out of her trip to mall too but they are brown Merrill type slip ons that probably don't deserve a photo. (sigh) I think we are both happy it's Friday and the work week is mostly behind us. It looks like the site I was hired to lead the creation of will launch on time next week and me and my staff have been busy testing for bugs and content all week. More work to do this weekend but not that much and I get to do it watching the boys be boys. It's all good.

Butterflies

Butterflies
Originally uploaded by homerclees.

Ceiling art at Oyamel. A new restaurant in the Penn Quarter near AARP.

New Shoes

Momma and the boys went to the mall tonight to buy new sneakers. They picked up some pretty sporty Saucony running shoes and they seem pretty happy with them. It appears Nicole decided to go shoe shopping at Nordstroms as well the boys thought her new red heels were "hot". They also tried to pick out a red purse for her but she ended up not getting that.

AIA Google Earth Demo

We launched our layer on Google Earth yesterday and did the annnoucement using You Tube. Very 21st century of us. Anyway, take a look at the 3 minute video and download Google Earth if you have time.

A Little Warm Weather

A Little Warm Weather
Originally uploaded by homerclees.

Goes a long way in bringing up the flowers.

Good Round

Good Round
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Me, Donkey, Modean and Wacky Dave played The Woodlands in Baltimore today and I managed an 80. I had an opportunity for 79 and messed up an easy pitch. Great day, 75 and sunny. Donkey should give the game up.

Mario Haircut

Mario Haircut
Originally uploaded by homerclees.

Dylan is playing Mario Kart on the DS while Sam is getting his hair cut. The video game keeps them occupied and out from under the feet of Patrick as he cuts. It is a video game but its non-violent and actually helps them with motor skill development. I think we have decided that we are not going to allow shooting games while they live in the house. This is going to be tough as I'm sure other parents will not follow that theory so they will see them elsewhere.

rainbow room

rainbow room
Originally uploaded by homerclees.

A lovely event.

broadway

broadway
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On my way home and had to stop and take a quick picture of times square from 50th. I can't wait to get back here to take the boys to the Lion King or Mary Poppins. They really like taxi car city and all the lights. I like it too but have had enough for now. I'm having a quick beer at an irish pub on 8th and then off to bed. Early flight home tomorrow.

View from rainbow room

View from rainbow room
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At the copernican awards in the rainbow room atop rockefeller center. Good connecting and cocktails.

Harvard Club Dining Room

Harvard Club Dining Room
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Having lunch in the grand dining room at the Harvard Club in Manhatten. The meetings are going well and having a good time connecting with all my council buddies.

Published Photographer

I had a guy contact me about a photo I took at the Scottish Walk in December asking to use it for his web site. Of course I said yes and he let me know that it's was posted today. I guess that makes me an actual photographer now. I know you are all saying, "don't quit your day job" but I thought I'd send you to the site to check it out. http://www.stgeorge-va.com/xmas2006.htm.

Still in New York and late for my morning meetings. Need to get running.

Hudson Lights

Hudson Lights
Originally uploaded by homerclees.

Got to the hudson hotel at 7:30 and they acually had a room ready. I'm just doing some e-mail and heading over to the Harvard Club for breakfast in a few.

A day late

I tried to get to New York last night for a Constumer Experience Council board dinner and was told my 5pm was cancelled along with the 6pm and 7pm due to high winds. Needless to say I was going to miss dinner anyway, so I booked myself on the 6am and here I am. Actually, it was the nicest delay I've ever had considering the whole Virginia Tech shootings made me want to see the boys anyway. I got to spend some time with them last night and sleep in my own bed opposed to a hotel room.

If all goes well, I'll be in Manhatten by 7:30am.

Dylan and Sam with some help

Good thing they had a couple teachers their for the five kids. The boys could barely catch an edge but that's my fault for not getting the skates sharpened. Who knew that new skates come dull, well Uncle Brandt did but we won't do that again.

One Rainy Day

Cold and rainy, not much like spring but it was good for my newly cleaned up, fertilized, seeded and top soiled lawn. Mr. Woo came by on Friday and did his yearly spring thing and everything looks much better. 3 inches of rain will get things growing. We took the boys to their first ice skating lesson today. Turns out, Uncle Brandt was right and the skates needed sharpening. Not that I didn't believe him, just that I forgot to get them sharpened. I guess dull skates makes it harder to skate. They will be ready for next Sunday. I'll post a couple of picture of them on the ice in a few minutes.