One for the LazyWeb: Is it possible to make a website think FireFox is actually IE? How’s it done? I’ve searched for an extension that does this, but am coming up short…

Update: found it!

Went to a conference at the beach and I was stuck behind Vanna White for most of the drive, so I took a pic… Cracked me up! (hint, you’ll have to click the pic and look at the license plate)

I took half a day off on Friday to drive Myung Hee’s paperwork down to the adoption agency’s main office in Eugene. I’d done the same thing for Tru a few years ago, plus I just felt a little bit better about handing over that HUGE check in person rather than sending it via FedEx.

Anyway, it takes a couple of hours to drive to Eugene from Newberg. I listened to an audiobook on the way, so it went pretty fast. I know that the good folks at Holt weren’t expecting me to show up with our paperwork, so their response upon receipt of our stuff was understandable. They just essentially said thanks and we’ll be in touch. And I got back in my car and drove another two hours back home.

But it sure would’ve been nice if they’d had a big old bell that they rang, or at least an ‘ah ooo gah’ horn or something, every time someone brings in their final paperwork. They could ring the bell and everyone in the office could shout “HEY!” or something.

Just looking for a little acknowedgement here… 🙂

I’ve got a new ChangeThis proposal up…have a look, cast your vote and pass it around!

If you missed the original posting, you can see it here…

Finally slapped up some new pics at lunch today…more coming. I’m using a new gallery thingy, though, so go here to see the new ones. Or here to see everything. Or just the Christmas jive…

I have no idea why, but I want to watch this over and over…

Went hiking this morning with Ron. We tossed around a few ideas…Dog Mountain, King’s Mountain, Eagle Creek. The Gorge was all icy and we’d already done King’s Mountain, so in the end, we just walked the Cape Lookout trail. It was pretty wet and windy! Some parts of the trail cut along a steep hillside that dropped off to the ocean…kinda freaky when there’s no guardrail and the wind is blowing you around…

It was a fairly short hike–about 40 minutes each way. Afterward we intended to drive to the top of Mt. Hebo and do the short hike to the summit, but we ended up getting nearly stuck in some snow, so we just turned around.

Overall, it was a nice day off…

Must run in the family.

Anyway, Amy’s over here in case you want to keep up with her doings…

For a few months now, our family has joined with eight or nine other families in making meals for one another. The way it works is that once per month, each family makes nine or ten (depending upon how many families are participating) frozen meals. Then they meet at one of the houses and swap meals. So you spend a couple of hours per month preparing a whole bunch of meals (all the same), then you give them away. But you get a whole bunch of different meals in return.

Last night the swap was at our house. At the swap, people not only swap meals, but also rate the meals they ate the previous month. That way folks know whether they should make something again. Ideally, people get two or three meals that “work” and they just rotate them from month to month. One other cool thing they’re doing this month is they’re going to make extra meals and donate them to the local Love, Inc office…

Anyway, Amy and my sister and a few other friends started the group and now another group is forming and my guess is that at least one more will begin before too long.

Figured I’d finally get around to posting a couple of vid clips of Tru doing his thing. This one (1mb wmv file) is a relatively uninspired rendition of ‘Ring of Fire.’ He’s done better, but not on camera. Oh well. This one (6.5mb, also wmv) is how he got tired enough to go to bed tonight…running into furniture. 🙂