iMerry iChristmas

Now playing: What Child is This by Vince Guaraldi from “A Charlie Brown Christmas”

Winter has come with a cold front blasting through from Canada. Santa is on the way. Hope he is bringing a new iMac, although our old one is holding up well.

Mary Claire is sitting on the couch putting labels on our Christmas cards while I print out the remaining cards. A Charlie Brown Christmas is queued up in iTunes, playing through the iMac’s speaker sticks and iSub.

Kelly and I bought the Office Depot address labels #612-221 1″ x 2-5/8″ because they were better priced than Avery. Since Office Depot is one of our biggest clients, I know these labels were most likely made by Avery. The card stock came from Sam’s (although I would prefer to say our new client, Costco): Avery Greeting Cards Half Fold 8375.

We used an AppleWorks database to print off the labels. The photos in the Christmas card came from iPhoto. The card was composed in AppleWorks. The font for the card is Mac OS X’s Papyrus. The graphics were enhanced with Graphic Converter. The elves were drawn using PaintShop Pro 8 (… on my Dell.)

christmas-card-2003-4-thumb.jpgNicole helped proof the card on her FlowerPower iMac sent via AppleMail to Athens. The inspiration for the back of the card came from the movie Elf. Danny is wearing the same outfit as Will Farrell.

I’m typing this in Kung-Log to post to the MovableType system which publishes to the Apache Web server on the iMac.

iMerry iChristmas. Only if Ted and his iPod were here…

Now playing: Christmas is Coming by Vince Guaraldi from “A Charlie Brown Christmas” Black Russian courtesy of Russia and Mexico.

MCC Catches, DC Digs

MCC with Snake Dug up by DC.JPG

We bought two Crape Myrtles and a River Birch along with a pallet of stone to put around the front island. While Danny helped dig the hole for the River Birch he spotted a small snake. Mary Claire came over, and with some encouragement from her Dad, caught it to show her mom.

Hey Lady!

Hey-Lady.gifA lady came to our door the other night looking for the Clarke’s house. I had just come home so the energy level was pretty high because all the kids and the dog get into a loud Dad’s Home Let’s Run Around mood.

The doorbell rang and Charlie immediately started barking ferociously. She barks loudest at the real doorbell and doorbells on TV.

I grabbed her by the collar, and opened the door leaning over. All three kids stepped up into the door. As the lady explained she was looking for the Clarke’s house, Nicole and Danny started giving simultaneous directions and Kelly started yelling (in nothing but her diaper) “HEY LADY! HEY LADY! YOU WANT TO COME IN! HEY LADY! YOU WANT TO EAT WITH US! HEY LADY! HEY LADY! YOU WANT TO WATCH TV?”

The lady was stunned and went off bewildered. We don’t know if she ever made it to the Clarke’s house.