Remotigue.net

Not hard to guess what we did on Saturday. Mabel, and old coworker from Model N, invited us to an ‘ice cream social’ at her place yesterday. Surrounded by tubs of (mostly) homemade ice cream isn’t a bad way to spend an August afternoon. Of course we were fashionably late (I picked up some Cold Stone “Coffee Lover” on the way) since it took a bit longer than usual to get ready ‘cuz I was home alone with the kiddo. It was good to see Mabel and Dean since we don’t hang out with them more than a handful of times a year, and their townhouse in Mountain View is really nice. Quite a few folks we didn’t recognize, and a couple we did. And of course ice cream. Tons of it.

Friday was also Huong’s birthday (the big “three-oh”). The day itself was pretty low key — I got her a card and we went out to dinner with her sister at the Vegetarian House restaurant (aka “Master’s”). As a gift I got her 2 passes to go indoor skydiving, but the place hasn’t opened yet and the passes I ordered got delayed in the mail. For some reason saying “Hey, I got you this really cool present but you can’t see it yet” doesn’t quite seem so impressive.

Yesterday, Huong went to her cousin Mai’s house getting a makeover for fun. They were having some sort of photo shoot in preparation for getting their own online business off the ground so they had some friends who where makeup artists and photographers there. We’ll see if I can get her to write about her experience with that.

And today is the real gift that Huong got for herself: she’s going to a day spa in Santana Row with Emily, her cousin Tri’s wife. She’s given up on trying to get me to attend those things with her

It’s high time that I started writing something to keep friends and family up to date. Sammie’s getting older and is doing all sorts of things that shouldn’t be forgotten, and now that Huong’s sister and her family moved it seems a sign that we should all try just a little bit harder to stay in touch. So there you have it.

I also took the opportunity to register a real domain name (you probably noticed it since you got here) — the “.com” one was taken by my cousin . And I also updated the photo gallery — check it out. Maybe I’ll get the rest of the family to upload their stuff there, but for now it’s just us. Oh, and if you happen to be on the Remotigue side of the *extended* family you can check out the family website here. It requires a login, so just let me know and I can create one.

Anyway I’ll *try* to post updates on the goings on in the household and in life in general. I haven’t been so good at that so far, but we’ll see how it goes this time.