Eri

It's a bit late, but no biggie: Eri and I spent her actual birthday together, in Disney. There was a lot of walking, and a lot of hot. But there was also a lot of fun, notably Splash Mountain and Tom Sawyer's Island. We also got to watch the riverboat's steam engine at work.

Lunch was fantastic, too. We both had a lot of fun!

My wife turns... um... another year older today! We would've liked to have a day of celebration, but there's work, and kids, and friends in dire need of assistance. But that won't stop me from wishing her a happy birthday immediately!

I'm taking a half-day, and we hope to watch WALL-E this afternoon. For dinner, we've planned a garlic party with a friend of ours.

Happy birthday, Eri! I love you!

But at least we don't have to worry about it. Eri's biopsy came back negative; she's perfectly healthy.

We went out to celebrate at Sho Gun, a Japanese steak house down the street. A good time was had by all.

My wife's birthday was yesterday. Unfortunately, she's off at violin camp with 2/3 of my children, so we could only communicate by phone. She knows what she's getting, though; I'm building her a computer to do some video editing on.

Last night, as I tried to copy the drive data from the old, slow drives onto the new, 320GB SATA drive, one of them threw a consistent I/O error. That meant putting it back in the old computer to run chkdsk, since I'm using a Linux LiveCD for the disk copy (for the other geeks out there: eLive and dyne:bolic, both of which recognize all the new hardware and provide dd, but neither of which provide dd_rescue).

To save time, I assembled the old computer only as far as necessary. Then came the moment of stupidity...