News from people with similar DNA

The week after next I'm going to have a visit with my sister, Tracy Velazquez.  She's coming to Houston for some conference and of course will spend some time in Boerne with us.  Yes, this is the Tracy Velazquez that ran for Congress in 2004.  I was the one to blame for her campaign web site, including the blogging software.  So I must confess that I'm not the first person in the family to have started blogging.  If you visit the archive of her site, you'll see that her sense of humor is similar to mine, once again proving indisputably that we have similar DNA.  Alas, she lost that election, even though she's "hot".

My son, Tony (11), recently advanced from Cub Scouts to Boy Scouts at the Blue and Gold banquet held at the Boerne Convention Center.  I was unable to get any decent photos with my cheesy cell phone camera.  I did, however, get a picture of the most beautiful, talented, creative and intelligent girl in the world.  That would be my own daughter, of course, Aria (7).  She is pictured here demonstrating the effect of static electricity from balloons on one's hair.

No respect

Last night, Tony told me he had found the perfect song for me.  It's called "Code Monkey" by Jonathan Coulton, and you can listen online or buy the MP3.  I tell you, I get no respect.

My swag's in the mail

Erin from ActiveState referenced my blog earlier this week, and she got a creative marketing idea from my Nutty Warnings blog entry. I pinged her back, teased her a little, and got a free T-shirt!  I love geek swag.  The last time I was this happy was when I won the puzzler from SoftArtisans (using a Perl script, heh heh) and received a free SoftArtisans T-shirt and a license for ExcelWriter, which I am still using in production today!  Actually I was more excited about the T-shirt, because for a few hundred dollars anyone can license their software!