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Too much to remember or type. But it was really good.

In Madison, going to L' Etoile tonight. It's been on my hit list for a while. http://www.letoile-restaurant.com/

Have a good trip, CJ! Dan, Happy documenting and (very fresh) fish eating!

Got a custom Gelaskin. I think the keyboard is fine. I have small hands, but I can't imagine it would be a problem. I'm going to love not hauling around that full size laptop any more!

Wow, my MBA 11" is apparently at my office ... from Japan AT 8PM last night to my door step at 1054am. That's pretty amazing. Looks like I'll have to stop at the office on the way home from the hospital!!

Damn, good luck, Shelly. Hope the finger is better, Adrian. Hope people in your new post don't think you're flipping them off!

Happy Father's Day all! Huge props to my Father, who taught me how to be a Father. Because there is no other school that teaches you this.

Happy Birthday!

Alright, let's go, then! Edit: Done. MBA 11" , i5, 8 GB, 256GB Your turn, Ric!

That spot heater just didn't WANT to point at me. Yeah, that's the ticket! And was it Gene or Mike that adjusted it for me? And no, I didn't hypnotize or pay either one. They did it out of kindness ...

If only I could change a light bulb ... or adjust that spot heater on the back deck in Mayberry ...

Ha! Good point, Gene! Well, sometimes someone comes up with a good technical reason for waiting. Maybe someone heard Haswell doesn't play nice with Mountain Lions, who knows.

This! I've been wishing and waiting for an 11" MBA with the battery life of the 13" for a few years now. I think this is it! Any reason not to take the plunge?

Sushi

CJ, For some parents, preservation of the culture is more important than the happiness of their child. For others, the happiness of the child is more important than the preservation of their culture. Often, it’s hard to know which they are until they are confronted with the actual choice. I think the parents themselves often don’t really know until they have to face that choice. I think you are being faced with the same choice. Which is more important to you? Happiness or preservation of culture? If you choose to stay with Julie, I think the best approach is to honestly explain how you feel about her and why. And that you’re choosing your happiness to be with this woman. And while you understand and respect your parents’ reasons for hoping you married Indian, you are making a choice that you have to make for your happiness. They may hate that choice, and they may even disown you. I’ve seen it happen. But I don’t think asking in any other way would make any difference – it’s more about how the parents feel about preserving the culture than how you inform them. I’ve seen angry parents who disown their kids and later change their mind after they get to know the girl/guy as a person, and not the threat to the culture that they represent. My parents ‘preferred’ that I’d marry Chinese. Second best would be an Asian woman of some other sort. Now, if it was really THAT important to them, they shouldn’t have moved their family to a white, 88% Jewish suburb of Cleveland that had no Asians other than us. It was impossible for my brother and me to date in high school, and I think they saw how hard that was for us. Then I had a number of so-so to awful relationships. I almost married one of them. I was well into my 30’s when I met a great lady who had nothing major wrong with her, and an awful lot right. I was lucky that my parents saw past her culture/race (and her parents did, too!) and there’s been no problems whatsoever. Oh, sure, there’s been some fun stories to tell about her learning about what I grew up with and me learning about small town Wisconsin. But hey, they all realize when they leave their country, that they are taking a risk that their culture will be lost or at least watered down. I say you can’t go to America for the American dream, but then ignore that it’s built on the ideology of a melting pot.

Weird. Mine doesn't do that at all. Maybe a reboot? Play with the settings in 'Input and Languages' (home screen, left virtual button, scroll half way down.) ? Same thing happen in both horizontal and vertical view? Maybe Uninstall and reinstall?

Not enough, Gene, not nearly enough.

SwiftKey here, too.

Spent the night at the Field Museum 'Dozin' with the Dinos' along with our Boy Scout Troup and about 500 other kids.

Had a nice lunch with Pars and Mrs. Pars, and picked up the Aleph P. It was a nice afternoon!

Awesome! Wish I had more support experiences like that!

Happy birthday!

Ditto ... we went to Radio Shack and got the cheapest, smallest sets we could find. And they broke at least one already, no biggie. But one's ears are too small to fit, so we had to find another cheap pair that went over her ears. Definitely discuss volume levels early and regularly. And definitely engage them with other better things regularly, and guide them over what they're listening to and playing w/ video games ... but sometimes you just need a break, esp on a long plane ride or car drive. I'm a better parent when I can have an hour here and there without them needing my absolute, complete, and constant attention, every second of the hour, every hour of the day, every day of the week ... First plane trip! Exciting! Let us know how it goes! Daniel's first plane ride he would remember was at about that age. He was so excited, that he was jumping up and down in the boarding area, looking at the airplanes coming and going, and saying 'airplane! airplane!'. He said this for half an hour while waiting to board, while the other passengers smiled at his joy. We boarded the plane, and he said gleefully, 'airplane! airplane!' We sat down while he smiled and laughed, 'airplane! airplane!'. When the jet engines, which were right next to us, fired up and made a huge, overwhelming roar right next to our ears, I looked over at him, and he was crying uncontrollably in terror, and mumbling under his tears and wails ...'airplane.... (waaah) airplane'. Just hilarious ... we still tell him that story all the time and he loves it!

Awesome chicken and waffles, Jeffy! Shelly, did you like the shallots in the guac?

Nate - wow,awful. Feel better soon! I've known people who put their 'souvenir' in acrylic to be saved as a paperweight memento. Colin - that smell doesn't give you warm feelings of childhood, like it does for me?