Wednesday, February 27, 2002

Golden Gate Bridge Snapshots

I know we already have tons of photos of the Golden Gate Bridge on the site, but you haven't seen it from this angle. Instead of cruising under the bridge or viewing it from afar we decided to walk across it.

Saturday, February 23, 2002

Do You Know the Way to San Jose?

This, I promise, will be a much shorter blog than the last.

It's Sunday here now and the afternoon chill is just starting to settle in. We're still no closer to knowing exactly when we can leave the US, or when we can even start to plan to leave. The results of the pets' latest blood tests should be available early the week after next. Until then, there's nothing much else we can do.

Playing Catchup Blogging

As Debbie so correctly pointed out this afternoon, I'm falling behind in the blogging of our daytrips. I've yet to cover the Napa Valley, San Jose or Coyote Point and, with a sure-to-be-blogworthy trip to the Burlingame Pez Museum scheduled for tomorrow, I do need to start chronicling some of these earlier journeys before the memories fade.

Sunday, February 17, 2002

An Updated Web Site!

We have a new record - it's only been 12 days since the last major update of the web site. (This reference is to our previous web site - Deb 2011.) I'm not counting blog updates because it is easier to update the blog than the rest of the site. Because we're studying HTML and JavaScript I find I'm spending a lot of time trying new things out on the web site and correcting errors in my original code. At the same time, I want to ensure that the web content does not fall too far behind the blog.

Thursday, February 14, 2002

San Jose Snapshots

San Jose is a sprawling city in the Santa Cruz Valley. It is hard to think of Santa Cruz Valley as a valley - you can see mountains in the distant east and west but in between there are miles and miles of flat space. We travelled to San Jose by train, only an hour's journey from our station at Broadway. Along the tracks there were all the signs of suburbia : backyard fences, shopping malls, busy streets. I was surprised to see blossoming fruit trees alongside wattle(!) trees. I guess the wattle shouldn't have surprised me - the El Camino Real is flanked by huge eucalyptus trees.

Tuesday, February 12, 2002

Yes, this Blog is Still Alive

Debs and I have been so busy learning HTML and Javascript over the past few days that neither of us have had the time to blog. The online course material has been generally good and rapidly digested, though some parts have been a little confusingly worded. It's the assignments though that suck up the time.

Tuesday, February 5, 2002

Filling In Time

We're still in the USA waiting for the pets to develop enough rabies antibodies to allow us to apply to Australian Quarantine to bring them home. It will be five weeks before we know whether this round of booster injections have been effective and, as yet, we haven't made much of a dent in the list of short trips I've compiled. We are conquering the local transport system and becoming quite adept at determining which mode of transport and what routes to take. Pity we won't be around to use it much in the future.

Sunday, February 3, 2002

The Updated Web Site : Coming Soonish to a Browser Near You

The last few days have seen our dining room become Web Site Update Central as Debbie has been ceaselessly updating our web site in preparation for the next 'edition'. We've now moved to Paint Shop Pro 7 as our photo-editing tool of choice, and Debbie's now become so proficient at HTML that she prefers to enter our web pages directly rather than use MS Frontpage. So, the last few days have seen 3am bedtimes ...

Friday, February 1, 2002

Brrr ...

It's about 5pm Friday afternoon, the Sun is disappearing, and the evening chill is beginning to set in. It's been like this now for a couple of weeks : generally coolish days followed by freezing or near-freezing nights and early mornings. Just a few nights ago there was a snow advisory for the entire Bay peninsula excepting only San Francisco county.