Conference photos are usually hotels and places where I eat/drink. I can’t get myself to do any touristy stuff unless I can walk to them. 

Eclipse Experience

Although it stayed cloudy in Austin for the most part, we got the occasional peek at the sun during the eclipse including at 90% coverage. Nothing had prepared me for the totality, and it was definitely eerily darker than a cloudy date. The solar-powered street lamps and our landscaping lights turned on. The bird's chatter increased as it got closer to totality, but everything was silent for those two minutes. I literally got goosebumps from this effect on our world due to a rare celestial event. We listened to our local NPR radio before the event as they reported from...

Hawai'i Memories

Don't let anyone tell you what you should and should not write about on your blog. You're writing for yourself. Others reading you is just a fortunate outcome.

Life finds a way

"Hey honey, I am going to shoot a couple of spatial videos before we drop off Yuki (our foster) because, you know, just in case...” 😉

Bryan Adams in Concert

Reliving the 80s and 90s music era at a Bryan Adams concert in Austin, with GenXers and Millennials enjoying an energetic performance by the 64-year-old rocker.

Hello World

I'm happy to be testing yet another blogging platform.  I plan not to duplicate any content here but might feed things I write here to my main microblog.  Now I wonder if I can selectively cross-post from here, or is it all-or-nothing?  Am I right in guessing that this does not have a timeline ergo it doesn't have a recommended character or word count? Does this thing have comments? Maybe not.  So far I love the 'new post' interface.