Little tiny excitment!

Little and fun and exciting, I just got my MiniCards in the mail from MOO.com. They're about the same length as regular business cards but only half the width. You can use provided images or your own photography on the cards. 100 cards come in a pack and each card can have a different image on the back.

I used ten of my own photos and then on the reverse I listed my company, blog site and email address. Simple, fun and so exciting!

Happy Birthday Emily

It's here! Finally my calendar is correct!

Today is new mum Emily's birthday! (Is she going by mum or mom?) Enjoy your day!

It's still summer in SoCal

Saturday we decided to go to the local Harbor Days festival. It's an aptly named gathering with lots of carnival food like funnel cakes and fresh squeezed lemonade. Just as we crossed the street from the parking lot we ran into our friends Nick and Amy. So we spent the day with them. We climbed around on a Marine hover-craft that was brought on shore for the crowds to see. We looked at all the weird stuff that was for sale, and just hung around and enjoyed the beautiful weather and harbor.

After a while we drifted back to their boat to get out of the sun and have a drink. We kicked back and had a great time chatting and just generally relaxing. We struck up conversations with the local flare that also has boats in the harbor including a seal and some pelicans that came by to say hello.

The water was calm so Nick suggested we take the boat out for a spin. No complaints here!

We came up on some seals soaking up the sun. They remind me of Henry and Lola, "Excuse me, but we're napping. Please move on."

The next buoy was the place to be though. I don't think there's anymore room for you buddy...

It was a great day, all spur of the moment and lots of fun. Thanks guys!

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Coming up this week: Color

Only in America

This has to be the most bizarre thing I've come across in this marketing mecca we call America. Printed potato chips? Why? Are NASCAR fans to dumb to remember who to cheer for while they sit on their couch watching cars go round and round a big circle? They're going to look down at their chips and change their weak mind "Go Dale, uh... er... I mean... oh, yea! Go Jimmy Johnson! Come on kids, yell it loud, go Jimmy!"

They are too dumb, but this is just overkill.

Backyard astronomer

Not only is Google taking over the world, but now outer space too! Google has made an add-on program that runs with Google Earth called Google Sky.

"[Google] Sky will allow astronomers a chance to glide through images of more than one million stars and 200 million galaxies.

Optional layers allow users to explore images from the Hubble Space Telescope as well as animations of lunar cycles."

The images are compiled from many sources including the local Palomar Observatory in Escondido.

You can also layer on the constellation, small objects that can be seen with the naked eye, planet positions and moon phases.

Click here to read the entire article.

Mac users can download this Starry Night widget for Dashboard. You can set your location by zip code and see what will be overhead that evening.