June 2010
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More good news on the giving front
Some of you may remember my post about helping fund Mr. Baltazari Ngowi’s business through Kiva.org.
Well, I am happy to report that the loan has now been completely paid off. I hope that Baltazari was able to put the money for a worthwhile and profitable use.
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Follow up on "Do You See What I See?"
The teacher from the project I donated to earlier this year has posted some pictures and a follow-up note:
…Hands on material is such a wonderful way to extend a lesson. Thank you again for helping to make Science an exciting topic for my students. Your gifts will be well used in my classroom for years to come…
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I dunno what if any impact having some fun science...
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Tomato-Butter Sauce
To kick off my attempts at becoming a better cook, I decided to stick with something simple: a four ingredient tomato-butter sauce. Amazingly, I actually pulled it off at it tasted great. Here are a few pics:
Yes, silly me, I used can tomatoes. We even had a bag of fresh, bright red tomatoes in our fridge; I was just too much of a wimp to try peeling them myself. One step at a time I...
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A few wedding pics
Here is a link to some pictures taken by my friend Michelle on our wedding day: Getting Hitched. As usual, Mariam is her photogenic self while I just do my best not looking like a complete dork.
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Hobbies
I’ve been thinking a lot this week about what I would do if I was independently rich and I never had to work. I decided that my free time ought to be spent doing those things instead of wasting my time watching t.v. or something. My list is topped by:
Traveling and exploring the world with Mariam
Eating and learning how to cook awesome food
Doing service projects like Habitat for...
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California
So, finally I am starting to get caught up with the present.
Mariam and I are here in San Francisco. It took us a week to find a place to stay, so we crashed at Grandma and Grandpa’s out in Concord. But now we have a really nice little apartment to ourselves near Balboa Park station with only about a 30 minute commute on the bus for me to work.
Work has been going well: I am working on...
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Car crash
I guess suspenseful endings don’t work all that well when I am writing a bunch of posts quickly in succession, but I am trying to break this up for easier readability.
Anyway, on the way to Target that evening, we pulled over to the side of the road (there was street parking) so I could make a phone call to my dad. After sitting there about a minute in park talking on the phone, I saw...
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Post-Wedding School Craziness
Our time in Park City was great. We stayed at the Waldorf Astoria Dakota Lodge which was quite fancy and very empty since it was in between seasons. We felt very posh ordering, well, Waldorf salad for $25 a plate through room service. It was a much needed two days of relaxing so we could survive the craziness that lay ahead.
So, yes, I still had finals to do. I know, I know, not the best way...
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The Wedding
Well.
Hi again everyone. It’s been awhile.
I think I have a bit of catching up to do. Where to start…
I guess that whole wedding thing would be good. I wish I had had the time to blog about this a little closer to when it happened, but life got set at ludicrous speed ever since that fateful week…
I should mention being married is awesome and Mariam is great for having...