We’re leaving this afternoon for a long-overdue vacation. It’s Ariella’s spring break from UCLA. Here’s our itinerary: Thu, Mar 20: arrive in Rome. Wed, Mar 26: depart Rome for Tel Aviv. Stopover in Budapest. Thu, Mar 27: arrive in Tel Aviv. Travel to Jerusalem. Sun, Mar 30: travel from Jerusalem to Ramat Gan. Overnight in […]
About the same size as the Canon Elph S230, the Olympus C-50 packs a whopping 5.0 megapixels into an 8-oz size. That’s smaller than the Canon S45 and it seems a little easier to use. We got it for $510 + shipping at 17th Street Photo.
I need to buy a digital camera. Does anyone reading this blog have any recommendations? Ariella and I are going to Italy for a week and a half at the end of the month and we’d like to to take some pictures. In the past, we have been schlepping our 35mm Nikon and getting a […]
We just completed our first optional home improvement project. Our master bath is now coral cove, which is really just a fancy name for peach. In the six months we’ve lived here, we’ve done other improvement projects, like hiring someone to fix the oven three times and the dishwasher twice, but I don’t exactly consider […]
Ariella and I assembled our Pagong chair from Ikea last night. It’s beautiful and bouncy. We first visited Ikea in 2000 during the first season of Survivor and were tickled to see that Ikea had named a chair after one of the tribes. But we waited almost three years before making the purchase. Sitting in […]
I have some new insight on the Palm Zire I bought last week. As I was talking to my shrink today, I mentioned buying the Palm and not the PocketPC as an example of the “You can’t teach an old dog new tricks” mantra. Au contraire, he countered, it’s actually the perfect example of not […]
We lit a fire tonight in our fireplace. It was the first time we’ve had a fire in our new home. A chimney-sweep came out a few weeks ago and said our chimney was OK to use as long as we didn’t have a fire for more than 8 or 9 hours. Avital drove out […]
We’re dog-sitting this week. Our friends Rob & Lamelle are in east Asia, so we’re watching Chaya, their Israeli mutt. I’ve been told by friends before that dogs are much more work than cats. You’ve gotta walk the dog two or three times a day! Luckily, Ariella has been taking mornings (I like to sleep […]
After a long week in Vegas, it’s wonderful to be back in LA tonight. Ariella arrived late Thursday night, and we checked out of the Alexis Park hotel on Friday morning. We got a cheaper (and nicer) room at the Monte Carlo, so we checked in, walked along the strip, and enjoyed a leisurely brunch […]
We bought a webcam a couple of months ago so we could use Yahoo! Messenger to video-conference with our friends Rob & Kelley in Israel. I just discovered the Still Photo feature today, and I’m screwin’ around. Ok, I’m gonna go back to work now.