Wayne and Rebecca Madsen

Paela got stuck behind the toilet.  read more »

Well we got approved for the apartment we applied for. Part of me wonders if this is a good choice, to move when we could probably stay here for about the same in rent. The other part sees the gas prices rising to 4.70 here in CA and thinks living closer to school/work is a very good idea.  read more »

This week marked Rebecca's first full week back at work, without unpaid family leave, because her boss won't let her work from home more than just a little bit of the morning.

After we went apartment shopping last week, we placed in a bid for an apartment and now we've been waiting all week for the manager to look over our application and give us approval. We don't know whether or not we'll be moving in a few weeks, which doesn't help us much. [apparently the manager we really need took the week off because she got married. Hopefully she'll get back soon and isn't overwhelmed trying to catch up.]

Rebecca worked all day long and all evening long after Paela went to sleep. Her team at work has a project due. Last week. So they're behind.  read more »

Well happy gummy bears day to you all. Er, happy father's day. We celebrated Wayne's first official father's day with literally pounds of gummy bears. Seriously. We saw that Amazon sells 5 pound bags of gummy bears (Wayne's favorite brand, Haribo, even), and we couldn't resist.  read more »

The ZERO1 SJ festival is over. There were some really great things and there were some things that I'm going to do everything I can to get Joel Slayton to recognize needs to be fixed for 2010. As bienniale festivals go, it was a success, and I'm not just saying that because I was heavily invested in this offering.  read more »

Now that Wayne is done with school, he is jumping head-first into quite a few projects. Some of his projects are ones involving coding, so I've been able to help off and on during my days off work. It's fun to have him around, and Paela and I try not to distract him too much from working.  read more »

The weather cooled down. Last week it was in the upper 90s and low 100s, this week it was in the low 70s and upper 60s. Big changes.

Because this was the first week after school, I had collaborated on a couple dinners with colleages. One, Tuesday night, went better than planned and we even had gorillas show up, dancing for us. No professor at BYU ever got in a gorilla suit to dance for me.

Paela eats tofu and plums, not to mention a bunch of other foods. She's still a fruit loving child, gobbling up applesauce like it was... well, you get the picture. She also has learned to enjoy time in the kitchen, "helping" in any way she can.  read more »

Wow, it's hot here. I grew up in Texas and I still think it's been hot here. Especially for May. Especially for the bay area. Especially for the bay area in May. We were wishing we had an air conditioner all week last week. But alas, not in our car and not in our apartment, so we tried to go places with air conditioning.  read more »