Ray’s feeling it tonight, in a bad way.
February 7, 2010
I’m starting to have a difficult time thinking up good titles for my recent posts. Perhaps after several years of blogging my mind is finally tapped out in that regard. Maybe it’s time stop naming everything…
It was a tedious job, but I’ve gone back through all of my older posts and replaced the html code for the photos that weren’t appearing. Fortunately I haven’t been using Flickr for that long, so it was only the last two months worth of pictures. And yet another lesson learned. It’s been a good week for me learning lessons.
I finally got a decent picture of Ray smiling. I’ve been trying for a while but all of my tried and true methods of getting him to smile and be cute don’t seem to work if there’s a camera in front of my face. He’s also been hanging out with us in the kotatsu recently, sitting our laps and grinning away.
This afternoon we went downtown to the passport center to pick up Ray’s Japanese passport. So now he’s got a U.S. and Japanese passport, and now we have to figure out which one to use for our upcoming trip to the U.S. If anyone has input in that department, I’m all ears.
It was beautiful today, and I wanted to take Ray down to the beach for the first time, but when he cried nonstop for 20 minutes after we left the passport center, we (I) decided we should just go home. After he had a good long feed and was in a good mood again, we threw him back in the car and headed down to the beach (great parents, right?).
Ray didn’t seem to grasp the gravity of the site before him. Perhaps his will when we go swimming this summer.
I had notions of getting some really nice pictures of Ray down by the water, but it wasn’t happening this time. I did get a pretty awesome shot of the ocean.
And on our way home, a decent one of Hakusan rising up above the foothills, it’s head finally clear after a few days of snow.
Back to work tomorrow, but there’s not much to be done. There’s more light than tunnel at this point.
February 7, 2010
Ever since I got my Flickr Pro account and briefly made private the Ray set there, I can’t see any of the pictures I posted of him in the past. The images all have a ‘temporarily unavailable’ message, but if you click on it the Flickr page opens and you can view the image. I’ve farted around with it and the only way I have been able to get the pictures to show up again is to cut and repaste the html code into the blog post. Has anyone had this problem before, either with WordPress or Flickr? I’m hoping there’s a setting somewhere that I can click and have all the images reappear. Any insights are appreciated.
February 6, 2010
Fresh out of bed this morning, I was holding Ray. When I wear this particular shirt, he always grabs a fistful of it with one hand, and sticks his other hand in the pocket. Very cute. I need a haircut (and a comb).
February 5, 2010
I feel like this has turned into a Ray blog, and that many of my few readers will be disappointed should too many post go by without some pictures of Ray. Actually, I wish I had more things to take pictures of, but for the time being I haven’t had time to do anything ‘interesting,’ so the camera turns to Ray.
His good ear doesn’t get enough publicity, so here’s a money shot for you.
And since I drink wine on Friday nights, catch a buzz and dote over my son, here he is via my wine glass. It actually adds a nice effect. Or perhaps I’ve had too much wine.
Casey
