No Lovely Photos

Just a quick note dashed off during lunch break at school. Today, we're starting in on Flash. The teacher talks way too much about stuff that has nearly nothing to do with the subject matter, and it was an hour and 20 minutes before she actually put hands on the computer and started in on the lesson.

Steve and I spent New Year's Eve and Day up at the moms' house with the other immediate family. There are no photos here because I took one the entire weekend: Steve sitting at the Goleta IHOP waiting for our brunch. If anyone else has pix, e-mail me a couple and I'll include them later.

On New Year's Eve we had our siblings' meeting about the estate and spent the evening putting colored dots on the tiems around the house that we wanted to take as a remembrance of Mom and Aunt Kit. Luckily, there were very few items that received more than one dot, so everyone got something close to his or her heart.

Mom's memorial was on Saturday at noon, and was very well attended. It was a pot luck, and there was plenty of food for everyone. Steve and I took off after the memorial/party and drove back to Pasadena in order to avoid the last-minute traffic crush of Sunday.

It was really good to see everyone in the family one more time. More than once it was voiced that Mom was the last of the Big Seven (her generation of siblings), and that we were now the Big Ten -- or thereabouts -- (the remaining offspring of the Big Seven). To put it briefly: We're the old guys now.

Cousin Robin and her husband Evan were at the memorial, and Evan approached me about putting together their Web sites, since the people who were doing it were charging exorbitant prices for almost no work at all. I was honest about just starting out, but it would be a good beginning for me, as far as having work on the Web for folks to view.

Only a few minutes until I have to dive back into the Flash interface and learn some stuff I didn't know already. A short note, but painfully newsy. Not terribly auspicious for the first blog entry in the new year.