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<\/a><\/p>\nTo celebrate Boris and Irena\u2019s 50 year anniversary!<\/p>\n
The woman folk dressed up in beautiful brightly colored clothing:<\/p>\n And the men folk didn\u2019t get a picture, as they were not so clever and only had bland attire, so instead I took a picture of a nicely dressed frog:<\/p>\n This summer I got my old 8 mm video camera back from Nick, with the intention of converting Boris\u2019s family videos to DVD, but the camera didn\u2019t work. I glared at it for a month, and just before I was about to order another from the CraigList, I kicked it one more time and is started working! So I transferred a box full of tapes onto a bunch of dvds and a one thumbdrive. They were happy to see old videos they didn\u2019t remember taking, like this one of little Aya and Noah playing a concert:<\/p>\n I got a new camera! Nikon 8100. It has fun modes, like this one which will mix a flash photo for crisp faces, but mix in natural but blurrier lighting for the background:<\/p>\n On the way back we stopped for a minute at one of those roadside historical signs that you pass 100 times thinking one day you will stop. That day finally came. This is an old rock only bridge, no cement or mortar. <\/p>\n Work is interesting. Lots conference calls to try to keep up with the intricacies of a complex and challenging project. I sometimes resort to two simultaneous calls with two headsets (not recommended, as a single threaded brain gets scrambled with multi-threaded conversations):<\/p>\n A few more random photos. We found this on a sidewalk on a walk to the campus a few days ago:<\/p>\n Our best guess, without tasting it, was dog poo. It smelled about right. Our next guess was it was this was a college Psyc experiment, testing the value of the dollar. We declined, waved randomly in all directions for what we expected were the chuckling experimenters, then circled back to take this picture. Before we got there, a flock of 4 college girls found it, eagerly picked it up, moved it about 4 feet, then eagerly dropped it with a shriek, probably after doing the taste test to determine its origin. I would have scrapped and bagged it if it were a $5. Helen says it would take a $50.<\/p>\n Helen\u2019s computer monitor wears a Kipah (one of those Jewish skull caps). I gave it some drumming lessons: <\/p>\n And you know the drill on this next photo. It might be a little longer than usual before the next bag photo, as judging from Helen\u2019s sheepish behavior, I think this one cost more than usual:<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n