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We haven’t posted to this site in a really long time. Lots of things have changed in the past year. Kaye started a new job at a San Jose Public Library, and is really enjoying her work. I’ve also moved, but I’m still within Etrade. I just needed a change of pace, different challenges; you get the idea.

However the biggest news is that Kaye and I just bought a house. It’s a 3 bed, 2 bath Spanish style house that was built in the 40s. It definitely has some issues that need prompt care, but it also has good fundamentals, and some great aspects too. Most notably are the hard wood floors, and the avocado trees, and a couple of fruit and citrus trees. On the less positive side, it has old knob and tube wiring, and the lawn is entirely dead because the previous owner stopped watering the grass. Take a look at the gallery.

I’m hoping this year to keep posting to this site a bit more often. We’ll see how well I do. Keep in touch

It’s been a while since we have posted, but recently i was informed that this blog was getting blog spammed. I guess i never locked it down. Now we are running Spam Karma, which automatically blocks spam. You might notice when you leave a comment you need to enter a captcha. I also figured I’d put some more pictures of Stella up. We recently took Stella to Montara State Beach, which is officially her first long trip. She hated the ocean, but looked very cute lying on the beach. I also loaded some more pictures of the little animal, including some where she is super duper cute. Also Stella has become more mellow when we are not around. I guess our efforts to break her of her anxiety have worked!

So, as adorable as Stella is, she isn’t quite the little angel that we bargained for. She has developed separation anxiety after some health problems that she experienced, and in the neighbor’s words, she “squeals” during the day. Matthias and I worked on training her this weekend to not freak out when we leave. We were in the bedroom hiding (a training exercise advocated by vets!), and this harpy-dog made shrieking noises that made us laugh in shame for our neurotic animal. I think now that Mommy is off Prozac, little Stella will have to go on it.

Well, we finally got the color wedding photographs scanned and loaded onto the site. You can find them in our main gallery, on the wedding page. We hope to get our black & white photographs scanned soon, and loaded onto the site.

Well, I finally finished my Master’s, and to celebrate, Matthias and I finally decided to adopt a dog. I have been wanting one forever, but I knew the time wouldn’t be right until I had time to give our new friend all the love it needed. First, we went to an animal adoption fair. I had my eye on this half-pug mix, that just seemed like a calm little sweetie. However, when we went to walk him, he was hell on wheels! He marked the dog food, scrambled around on the floor, pooped everywhere, and was in general…well, not the right match for us. Afterwards, we went to the San Jose Animal Care Center to look at new friends. When we sawStella, a 5 year old, 8 1/2 pound Chihuahua, we still had the fear of our last experience in mind. Imagine our wonderment when she behaved like a perfect adorable little lady. Evidently, she has been homeless for quite a while, but we have her now, and we’re already in love! Now, we are a complete family.

Today marks the 8th day that Kaye and I have been married. We just returned from our week long honeymoon in Hawaii. We had a blast and brought back some pictures to share. There aren’t many, but you get the idea. We had lots of fun, and got some needed relaxation after the wedding.

[FYI: the wedding pictures will take some time to get posted, since they are on film and will need to somehhow be transfered to digital form. If you have any pictures/movies that you took and liked, send them to us, and we’ll post them.]

Kaye and I have been working on putting together a wedding site to help people get to information like addresses, hotels, gift registries, etc. You can find it at lovablerobot.com/wedding. If you have any suggestions about adding useful items on the wedding page, please contact us. Also if you have any special talents that you would like to contribute to help make our day a great one, we’d love to hear your ideas. (We need someone to volunteer to handle the signing of the guestbook. Give us a shout if you’d like to help with this)

So we are happily engaged. I had planned a trip to Lake Tahoe but beforehand we took a quick trip to Point Reyes State Park. Kaye and I walked the nearly empty beach and had a picnic. Afterwords, I suggested that we take some more pictures of the ocean. While Kaye was goofing off, I got out the ring that I’ve been thinking of for the past month. I ran up behind her and knelt down; she was a bit confused (thinking that I meant to take some pictures), but then she realized that I was holding a ring in a box. She squeaked with excitement as I asked her to marry me. You can probably guess that she happily accepted. Afterwards we spent the rest of the weekend in Tahoe.

We have set a tentative date for the wedding in October of 2006.

Over the past few months we’ve taken a few more day trips, one to the Big Basin State Park, and one to Carmel (with a side trip to the San Juan Bautista Mission).

Back in January Kaye and I went to Chico (and took some pictures). We visited some friends and went to our favorite places from the years when we lived there. God, the beer is cheap.