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Emporium Demolition

I spent yesterday’s lunch period on top of the 5th and Mission Garage in San Francisco watching a demolition crew tear down remnants of the old Emporium building. It was a gorgeous day and quite the site to behold as large machinery tore down floors, walls and I-beams with ease. Several men were spraying water over everything to keep the dust down as debree fell several stories to the ground. Much of the building, which takes up much of the city block, has already been torn down. However, it appears that they plan to keep the large rotunda for the shopping mall that will take it’s place. A Bloomingdale’s is also planned for the site.After finding those pictures, I read the article linked to them. Looks like I’m not the only one who found the spot a great place to watch.UPDATE: (2004.03.03) I’ve added photos of the demolition that I took in mid February.

The Flood Gates Are Open

Kaija’s nearly 2 1/2 months old now and her tear ducts are starting to produce when she cries. It’s been fairly noticable in the past few days, no doubt in part because she’s come down with her first cold. Last weekend was spent around my cousin Don’s kid Forrest. Forrest didn’t act sick when they first arrived at our appartment but by the end of the day it was apparent that he wasn’t feeling very well. A few days later Kaija developed a cough. Then on Sunday her nose started to run and her temperment changed. It appears she’s getting over the worst of it now, though.

On The Road To Nowhere

I went snowboarding at Northstar this past weekend with a bunch of friends… 12 people packed into a 10-person condo. Having been spoiled with a free a place to stay around South Lake Tahoe for the past few years, I have to say I wasn’t impressed with the drive along I-80. Route 50, though only two lanes wide, rarely had so much traffic that we get in anytime after midnight even in snowy conditions. Friday night was a zoo on I-80. It took us 7 1/2 hours to get from the South Bay to Kings Beach without even stopping for dinner. It was 3 a.m. by the time we got to sleep. All in all, though, the snowboarding was great. Continue reading →

Let There Be Music

My concert listing page has been broken ever since migrating this site to the new server. It appears that Linux’s scheduling utility “crontab” is a little pickier about command syntax than OpenBSD’s. In any case, I’ve brought the page back to life and added an extra feature… if you’re a Mac OS X user, you can subscribe to the listing in iCal by clicking on the icon next to the appropriate link in the “My Links” section. I’ve taken the liberty of setting the event time from 8pm – 11:30pm for every concert since there isn’t an easy way to automatically pull this information at the moment.As a side note, I’ve also added an iCal subscription link to the Silicon Valley Dinner Club (SIVADC) schedule.

Hungry for Photos?

Eat up. I’ve been hording, but now it’s time to share.I took these shots about a month ago after setting Kaija on the bed and getting a kick out of all of the faces she was making. I grabbed my camera and the rest is history.Jennifer and I spent the week before Christmas in Carson City, NV visiting with her Aunt Brenda and Uncle Paul, Grandma and Grandpa Pugsley, and rest of her cousins from that side of the family. Aunt Brenda kept us very well fed and Uncle Paul put me to work on several home improvement projects… a welcome activity for an apartment dweller such that we are. Christmas Eve was spent opening presents. These are a few shots from that night (mostly).One of my college housemates Jessica stopped by during a trip out to the Bay Area over the holidays. We went out to breakfast, then came back to our apartment to chat and hang out with Kaija.My parents gave us a “Twas the night before Christmas” outfit at one of Kaija’s baby showers. Unfortunately, since we were planning on being back from Carson City by Christmas Eve, we didn’t bring it with us on our trip. She would be too big for it by next Christmas and we felt we couldn’t let it go to waste! Since we drove back from Carson City on Christmas day, here she is wearing the outfit after we opened our presents on the next day.Preparing for a trip to Michigan, Jennifer wanted to see if Kaija fit in her new outdoorware. Snug as a bug in a rug!

More Photos

None of Kaija this time. Sorry to disappoint. :)No, I’ve been catching up with the photos that I had not gotten around to posting for various reasons. But now that I’m taking a little time off from work, I’m putting the time between Kaija holdings to good use.My friend Robert Seymour and I took a hike in the Sunol Regional Wilderness on November 1st. The trail was representative of much of the Bay Area hiking that I’ve done: up and down golden hillsides, open skies, sometimes through pastures of grazing cattle. The weather was a little cool and windy but perfect for hiking.My cousin Don’s son Forrest celebrated his third birthday on November 16th of this year with much of his nearby family. He was excited to see everyone, though perhaps a little reluctant to share his toys. I think the balloons kept him just as entertained as his presents.

Smooth Move

In an effort to remove the web server hosting windeler.net out of our newborn’s bedroom, I’m moving the web sites to a new server. The web server itself is quite a bit faster than the Pentium 133MHz machine that I’ve been using (it was cheap!) and has a much faster Internet connection than my home ADSL outbound connection. This should make loading pages and pictures much faster. I’ve also taken the opportunity to change the URL to https://brahm.windeler.net/, which is something I meant to do from the beginning but never got around to implementing. Oh, and I’ve updated some of the links on the right side of the main page, too.So far I’ve got most of my personal pages, photos and backend scripts copied over. Let me know if you find any dead links. I plan to move the main the.windeler.net family weblog over shortly.