Christmas Tree

We have delayed our purchase of a Christmas Tree until the very last moment. It wasn't because we didn't want a tree, but because we couldn't fine someone to deliver a real tree to our house. Fortunately for us, we eventually found a farmer who was nice enough to do just that.

Little did we realize that the tree was too big for our living room! It is about 8' tall and we had to re-arrange our living room furniture a bit. We also needed to buy more Christmas ornaments and lights so the tree wouldn't look empty.

Enjoy the pictures.

A white Christmas

For a little while I was worry about not having a white Christmas: the weather was up to 8C and raining and all the snows were melted. Luckily for us, on the day of Christmas Eve, it snowed another 10cm or so and we ended up with a white Christmas!

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

White-out

Today, I conquered snow :)

New work computer and 30" monitor

Some of us working in the lab were lucky to get a new quad-core computer with a 30" LCD monitor. All I can say is that this computer is fast and the screen is beautiful! I wish I have that kind of spare cash and am able to hypnotize myself in buying one.

Took a while to get ubuntu 7.10 Gusty to work with the 30" LCD. The trick was to add "nosplash" to grub, in addition to the usual addition to the xorg.con for the proper driver/resolution.

truffles, yum yum

Our moms came visit us in Kingston early October. We took them to a fancy italian restaurant for dinner one saturday. Food was delicious. We had steak on a lava rock, tuna steak, salmon pate, and truffles with pasta.

Bobo's Christmas present came early

We bought Bobo a new bed last weekend. It is fluffy and soft, she likes it a lot.

Halloween

Sorry for the lack of updates. Elvis and I have been both busy and lazy. Here is our Halloween pumpkin, cute eh? P.S. we ran out candies that night.