Juliette and I sometimes joke about becoming one of those old couples who go out for breakfast and ignore each other for the entire meal. I suppose that some people must be happy with that kind of relationship, but it's always been incomprehensible to me.

Coffee: it stains the teeth, fouls the breath, and totally improves my day.

I've been an engineer for over ten years now. It's rare that I've seen a tidy workspace in that time. Monkey shrines may actually be the more common occurrence.

My fascination with sodium-vapor lights continues.

When I was a kid I used to like taking things apart. Toys, ballpoint pens, remote controls, my mom's car stereo--you know, whatever came to hand. So far Jason doesn't seem to have inherited this trait, except when it comes to Lego constructions that his parents or grandparents put together for him.

It's nice to work with people who have a sense of humor.

We took the kids to see Disney on Ice this weekend. To be honest, I'm ambivalent about the whole princess thing. I suppose it might seem odd to the more old-fashioned set, but it bugs me a lot more that Eva is starting to show interest in princesses than that Jason does (and has for quite some time now). There's a certain feeling of inevitability, though.

I have kind of a fixation with sodium vapor streetlights. I like how weird and monochrome everything looks under them, and I think that they produce some interesting tones when converted to black and white.

And that's about all I have to say about this picture.

Tea for the parents, medicine for the kids. I don't know, maybe that's a bit backwards.

One of the things that strikes everyone about Eva is how good-natured she is. Yesterday, for example, the pediatrician commented that she was the happiest double-ear-infection patient she'd ever seen. Still, as she's gotten older she's gotten opinionated about a few things, which occasionally leads to scenes like this one. They're all the more remarkable for how rare they are.