Just something important!

We (Chris and I) have set a date to get married for October 14th most likely here in California. The plans are to still have a nice small wedding with our immediate families followed after by some well deserved R&R in Hawaii....

The other new news is I start a new job right after Memorial Day. The company I consult for has decided to bring me in-house to manage the company's own network/servers and so on. It will be a great break after the last 9 months on my current contract with a startup company which has serious growing pains (but I never said that). Ther are some great people but the company as a whole has a lot of growing up to do.

It's nice to have some great news to share!!!!!!!!!!!

Cheers Mark & Chris

Scoping out new places to play...

Today we took a leisurely trip to Fremont and pulled Atilla around the park at Lake Elizabeth. It's a 450 acre park centered around a small lake where people can rent paddle boats, kayaks and spend time with their family just playing in the park. We took Atilla there for us all to stretch our legs and enjoy the beautiful weather.

We spent a couple hours wandering around the park, playing in the water with our "kid", sniffing other dogs and trying to chase birds. It was a nice day out in the park.

How can it get that hot?

Just a simple thought for today... How can that microwave apple cobbler desert get hotter than the surface of the sun in 5 minutes or less?

Atilla's First Ocean Visit

Three weeks ago Atilla made his first real outing since his pace-maker surgery. We drove to Monterey/Carmel and went for a few short walks. We stopped in Monterey on our way to the "Doggie Beach" and walked along the rocky coast in Monterey. The weather was nice, almost 70's and the area was crowded already. The Fisherman's wharf area and Cannery Row were just packed with people so Atilla just enjoyed the view out the window while we drove past them all to the shoreline. Atilla, Chris and I went for a couple short walks and Atilla met a new buddy, a black and white cocker spaniel..... I think the picture says it all!



The weather was great so Chris was busy taking pictures.. thanks Chris!




After enjoying the rocky shore along Monterey we drove to Carmel where the public beach allows dogs... and dogs off leash. Poor Atilla though, he's such a baby and a wanderer we didn't dare let him off leash. He did however get a chance to dip his paws in the Pacific Ocean. If you didn't know, Chow Chows don't like water and though the waves looked enticing, when they rolled in and the paws got wet the dog was not happy (we had a delightful jump in the air however). It was enjoyable for us all, some of us laughed more than others.



Even though we're living for our dog right now we all enjoyed our trip and Atilla found out the taste of salt water and he was allowed to sniff a little!

New Subscriber Link

I have added a subscriber link for those that want to know of updates. Thanks to the Sawatzky's for the idea!

I wanted to stop spamming everyone and this way those of you that would like to know of updates can be aware of the udpates without my spams!

BTW, if you haven't noticed, Valentines day is Wednesday!!!