I'm in the process of renewing my Canadian passport. I thought that I'd be able to take my own passport photos, but the requirements made it rather onerous. It was a relief to get my photos taken by a local photo shop. There I learned about all the other types of government (or media-) mandated photos. Apparently, all the photos have different requirements. Why can't the world just agree on some standard photo formats -- or at least fewer formats?
free pamplets for the home repair person
Maybe I can become a fix-it up man myself! (Flyers are at Berkeley Ace Hardware)
water bubbles on branches
It's easy to expect sunny skies all the time in Berkeley. So when the rains come, I remind myself to see the beauty in water that eludes us for much of the year, including rain on trees.
rain and pictures
Yesterday, during my walk to campus, I had the opportunity to celebrate the after-rain environment by taking a lot of pictures:
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China Illustrated — a new book at Moffitt Library
China Illustrated is a book I'm interested in more closely examing. It was checked out the last I looked (see melvyl for the University of California system.)
campus tour
I like seeing crowds of visitors taking a tour of the Berkeley campus. Imagine the thoughts and feelings going through the hearts and minds of prospective students and their parents. The scene takes me back to the first days as a 1st year student at the University of Toronto for me.
Relaxed and focusing
My honeymoon was by far the best vacation I've ever had. Undoubtedly, I've had many wonderful trips in my life, but none has been as deeply relaxing and fun as my ten days away with my best friend and now wife, when we had little of great concern besides feeding ourselves and enjoying the aloha spirit of Maui's people and land. Though I'm back in the office, feeling relaxed and energetic, I'm still getting up to speed on the many things that have happened since I was last in the office.
We’re back
Laura and I just got back from honeymoon in Maui on Sunday night. It was a
wonderful, wonderful trip. Still, we're both happy to be back, ready to
build our new life together back in Berkeley.
Needless to say, we took a lot of pictures. The following is an obligatory we-were-in-Hawaii picture:
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More pictures to come....
I used to like to park here.
It's too bad that this parking lot is now hourly parking. Maybe it will be better and more profitable for the university, but I enjoyed not having to park in a structure.
In case you are interested in seeing where this lot is, click on the link marked I used to like to park here on the geobloggers page. (More on geoblogging later....)
Chris and Lloyd at lunch
Lunch with Laura, Chris, and Lloyd was a blast yesterday. I especially enjoyed hearing about his presentation in NYC last week.