Christmas Pics

Here are our new Christmas Pics. We have a new tradition. We are going to avoid buying pictures. From now on we will look for local businesses that off Santa Pics.

Ron Paul Sign

Reagan, Paul, Techno Libertea Party, and what do you do when Paul supporters "spam" the straw poll? Cancel it!

We find out that San Fransisco cancels the straw polls because too many Paul supporters show up. What will they do on election day? And the GOP Straw Polls left Ron Paul off of their site which shows how many straw polls each candidate won. To refresh your memory, Ron Paul is dominating in his straw poll victories.

I guess I will have to just donate more on December 16th and "work it harder."

Thanksgiving

We had a wonderful Thanksgiving. Thank you mom for making the most food, decorating, and doing the majority of the clean up. Thank you dad for the turkey and stuffing. Thank you Jim for your food and helping move stuff. A special thank you to Gretchen for playing with and being responsible for Toshi so Hiroko and I could eat.

Thank you everyone for coming and enjoying family time, especially Hiroko's parents who came all the way from Japan. We hope to do it again next year.
Milo, get your butt over to visit!





The comments are a combination of Japanese and English exclamations from Toshi. If you don't understand them, don't worry. "Happy Thanksgiving," "oishi" (delicious in Japanese), "ee-da-go" (cousins * note: it should be ee-toe-go.), et cetera.

House of Cards

I am putting up this video because I think it succinctly shows the fiscal irresponsibility in our government. Ron Paul is Hope for America.

My Children

Here is a short photostory I made. I love seeing Toshi-chan and Sa-chan together.

You can't stop the signal

Considering the nature of Firefly, I really hope Joss Whedon comes out to support Ron Paul. What a dream endorsement that would be! Speaking of non sequiturs...here is another another Dec 16th tea-party ad.


Add This to Your Page - Watch more at FreeMe.TV

I have signed up for the Liber-tea party!

Well, I donated money to help the November 5th money bomb. Now I am planning to support the Dec 16th movement to help Ron Paul get elected. I have never felt so good about parting with money.

Sachan's First Slideshow

I have opted to work with Microsoft's Photostory3 to create slide shows. Here is my first story. I am getting massive feedback that the music is way too depressing. I was shooting for "nostalgia." Oh well, I am not changing it. These were taken the day Sachan was born.

Stealing from Jimmers

Apparently I am either not a good photographer or a good daddy because I have to steal good pictures of my new baby from my brother. Here are much better pics of Sachiko.

Thank you Jim!

Sa-chan as arrived!

Actually her name is Sachiko, but we have been calling her Sa-chan. It is a Japanese thing. I don't have a better picture of her, but I do love this picture of Toshi holding her. He has been so good.

Ron Paul: 2008

I have decided to take the plunge and get involved in politics. I have decided to support Ron Paul. At first I was impressed with his performance in the Republican Debates. I am very disillusioned with the Republican party. I thought Dr. Paul won all the debates and was a breath of fresh air.

As I have researched and listened to him more, I think he is spot on in the war on terror. I don't understand enough about taxes or economics to have an educated opinion on those issues, tho he does seem to make sense. However, I have felt uncomfortable about where the war on terror is taking us as far as our liberties are concerned.

It makes sense that you cannot go to war with a "tactic." After 5 years in Iraq, al qaeda is now in Iraq (where it wasn't before), is as strong as it was pre 9/11, and Iraq is now a hotbed for recruiting Muslim extremist from all sects. That massive failure has already cost us close to half a trillion dollars.

We are borrowing that money from places like China to finance an operation that is giving our enemies strength.

It is a generational mess that I don't want my kids growing up and having to pay for or get involved in.

When you listen to what Ron Paul said before the war and during the war...he is spot on. When he talks about what the "war on terror" is doing to our constitutional Bill or Rights, I just yearn for him to be elected.

I am taking the plunge. I am getting involved. I will chronicle my political involvement on this blog.

Still an Artiiiist

It has been about 10 months since Toshi first expressed his artistic talent. Now 3 months shy of his 3rd birthday, I thought I would update you on how his "face" drawing is going.

It's Official

We are having another baby. We are not sure what the sex or name will be. Here is the first ultra-sound.

Summer of 06

I finally got Toshi's cool samurai pictures up in my photobucket account. Without further ado I present them to you.

Toshi Combat

I did it! I finished my first edited video. I hope you like it. It takes a lot more time then I thought, and the more I worked on it the more critical I became of it. I got so sick of making it worse, so I decided to just post it.

Glaring mistakes aside, I feel a little cool. Making it was a lot of fun. "Grats" to Pebs for getting him to dance to her 50's music and letting us use her big couch he likes to jump on.

Been a while

Well, I guess I can update my blog. Here is what is new in my life. Hiro-chan is pregnant and Toshi is just as wonderful as I could expect him to be. We bought some new property and I have been focusing my computer skills training on Cisco products.

I have recently bought Sony Vegas Movie Studio Platinum + DVD. We are going to have fun with it.

The below clip is from a while back. I was actually just testing out my photobucket account. I have not finished my Sony Vegas video yet.