Tick-Tock

One week remains until our big move into the big city in anticipation of CSVBR's big move. Five weeks of Anchorage. There we'll have access to the internet, amongst other things. For that reason, we bought a new tiny travelling computer. It's pretty awesome so far, although if my hands were Boodah's size, the typing speed would be better. In any event, it's all set up for Skyping, and that's one of the main reasons we bought it. One other cool thing about it is it does not use Microsoft. It uses Ubuntu, which is totally free and open source. It is awesome. And has lots of good software.

And of course, we'll be getting the internet fired up again in Unalaska once we get back. Hopefully the four month break was enough to break us of our worst habits, and we'll only use the net for blogging and essentials. Yeah, right. We can always hope! Our big hang up is that if you want the fastest internet option, you have to get cable. We don't want cable, being the wacko anti-tv monsters that we are. Actually, we are not that monstrous, as we bought an antenna so we could watch Flash Unalaska once a week. But that's because we usually get to see Boodah, or at least somebody we know, on the tube. And it's just one commercial free half hour.

Enough with the boring stuff. Boodah got his first powder turns! On a snowboard, anyway. Between the skiing and the snowboarding, I think the boarding will be the easier one to get going. We'll see!

This past week the weather has been incredible. Either snowing or blue sky. My two favorite options. There's not enough of a base for serious snowboarding, but there was enough for Boodah to have fun. And enough for Boppa to achieve his life goal of snowboarding and surfing in the same day. (And throw in some cross country skiing just for the heck of it.)

What else has been going on? Paxson Revel Boodah turned two. Hooray! He loved his airplane cake, and lots of other goodies. And my Dutch Harbor friends threw a surprise baby shower for me. Thanks, everybody! (Unfortunately I did not take any pictures. Alas, our pumpkin carving party was equally undocumented.)

Other big news is we have made a big move in the home decorating direction. We have even framed some things and hung them up. We even bought an art print at the museum fundraiser. We are getting crazy! The Big Lebowski, Nixon Bowling, Bar-noculars, ET/Michael Jackson, and Don Quixote posters alone are no longer cutting it. We are daring to go for a theme. Alaskana! But do not worry, Buck is making the cut.

Okay, I'll just be hanging out, hoping Captain Stokely Von Bering Racecardrivernumerodos doesn't decide to make an early appearance in the next 7 days.

Blue sky. Yay!

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