Personal
Wherein we take the in-laws to Chinatown (and a few other pictures too)
Aviva’s mom Lil and one of her brothers, Brian, came to visit us. I took a day off and we decided to go to Chinatown. In addition to pictures we took in Chinatown, there are a couple shots from a shopping trip at a garden supply shop and Aviva meeting the monster…
March 1st, 2010 by alephnaught
Weekend in Palm Desert
Lily doesn’t like dogs. They’re dirty, she says – they smell and they’re dangerous. After this weekend, Aviva’s mom changed her mind a little bit. She agreed we could bring our new puppy Iggy to her house as long as we brought his “cage,” a metal and plastic fence that can be shaped in many […]
January 30th, 2010 by alephnaught
January 9th, 2010 by alephnaught
My new wedding ring and another shot of Iggy
I love titanium wedding rings – they are light and typically of modern design. But, my old one was getting a little tight and, due to its design (a small diamond leaving a hole in the back) I was getting dermatitis underneath. So we bought me a new ring (also titanium): I also took a […]
November 2nd, 2009 by alephnaught
Miscellaneous photos
Some more photos I took around and about; all taken with my Blackberry Curve phone. Morning tea in an oriental bowl The sun over my office building A decorative work hanging in the middle of our local Nieman Marcus
September 21st, 2009 by alephnaught
Fire extinguisher training
No kidding – we had fire extinguisher training at work a week ago; I’ve been so busy I haven’t had time to post pictures yet. It was fun; I hadn’t fired off a fire extinguisher since I was a kid. Now I need to get a couple for home and teach Aviva how to use […]
August 17th, 2009 by alephnaught
My new earring
I just got this a few days ago from a vendor on Etsy, Simply Willow. Her work is somewhat steampunk inspired, and I loved this one when I first saw it. Its called Red Key To My Heart Steampunk Earrings. Here’s a picture of one of them (since I only have one ear pierced I […]
August 7th, 2009 by alephnaught
We bought a house
We finally bought a house in SoCal – its not as close to Los Angeles as we wanted (its in Woodland Hills), but its big and its ours; 5 bedrooms and 4 baths big. We bought a painting as our housewarming gift to ourselves – its about 42″ tall and done in a classic Spanish […]
July 30th, 2009 by alephnaught
3 Videos: toys making music, a fountain, and bracelets
Three fun videos… This one is two Japanese toys from a Japanese toy band – Giant Robot carries the whole group, I hope to get them all: This one is a fountain at the Grove, a shopping complex in LA: And lastly this one is Aviva’s bracelets reflecting light off the ceiling of hte car:
July 25th, 2009 by alephnaught
Nathan’s first tattoo
My son Nathan got his first tattoo today; I think its really cool: And here’s Nathan getting his tattoo:
-
+Bob Hays
- I'm a father and husband, have two schipperkes, like to read, compose music, travel. And I manage a couple software development teams at DIRECTV.
English
March 16th, 2010 by alephnaught