Free SJ Giants tickets

The kids and I went to see the San Jose Giants' game Wednesday and the tickets were on them! You can go free, too! The SJ Giants have a Merchants' Night games promotion. You can get these free tickets at OSH (Orchard Supply) stores through out the South Bay. Check out their website for more details. There are four games remaining.

Tuesday, August 7th @7:00 PM vs. Stockton Ports
Tuesday, August 21st @7:00 PM vs. Visalia Oaks
Thursday, August 23rd @12:20 PM vs. Visalia Oaks
Sunday, September 2nd @5:00 PM vs. Bakersfield Blaze

This is Class A minor league baseball and a lot of fun. If you've never been you'll wonder why you never did it before. It's not too crowded but there are enough people to get some spirit going. There's fan participation entertainment between innings (too corny to describe and very funny!) and truly great baseball. We saw a pitchers' duel and the Giants' pitcher had at least 11 strikeouts. And of course the home team won 4 to 0.

I can't say enough about it, especially at this price. Go Giants!

Not just another panda...

And of course it's dedicated to Richie and Judy. This panda is a little different than your run-of-the-mill stuffed panda. I dunno, this one is just a little creepy for my tastes. Check out the WooWee Robopanda.

A new look for Where's Geoff

Since I can't change my hair style much anymore I thought I would change my blog style. Seriously, I was looking for a way to make the Flickr slideshow display more cleanly. I think the problem was that the other canned blog template I was using was too narrow in the main text column and was cutting off the pictures.

Well, this isn't optimal either but it's better for what I want it to be. You're probaly saying to yourself, "Too much information!" Okay, let's move on.

Yes, we're back

Hi Rick. Yes, we're home.

My former really good friend, Rick, tweaked me in his blog about not posting that we actually arrived in the U S of A, following my post that we were on our way. Well, we did get back just fine and dandy and suffered few ill jet lag effects. Thanks for asking.

I actually procrastinated the announcement of our return, hoping that I could put up a Flickr slideshow of my pictures. However the culling of the pictures hasn't yet been finished and the immediate opportunity to blog about getting back slipped out of reach. The slideshow is still coming so stay tuned. If you want to see all 1000 plus pictures (and those are only mine, not including the kids') you can drop on by the house and plan for staying for a few ... days.

(By the way, does anyone know of a way to force Flickr to order pictures in the way you prefer?)

The trip was all I hoped it would be and more. Best was singing in the old Austrian and Swiss churches with the choir in tip top form. I've never sung in churches with such favorable acoustics and maybe I never will again. Best was getting a Liechtenstein country stamp in my passport. (Okay kids, how big is Liechtenstein?) Best was walking on the shores of Lake Luzern (Lucerne) on a postcard picture perfect day. Best was eating a delicate Swiss pastry and drinking a strong coffee while sitting next to the fountain in the public square. Best was clowning around with the family at the Sound of Music filming locations. Best was the choir singing Let Thy Holy Presence (Tschnesnokov) in the Marble Hall in Mirabell Palace in Salzburg, the same place Mozart and his children performed. You get the idea.

Our Tahoe Vacation

Okay, so I'm a little behind in my posts. Here are pictures from our Lee family Lake Tahoe trip in early June 2007. These pictures are hosted at Flickr, a subsidiary of Yahoo. Click on the picture to see my caption. Mouse over different portions of the frame to see other options. Let me know if the slideshow doesn't work for you. You need Flash Player to have it work properly.

[Fri, July 13 - sorry about the weirdness in the slideshow rendering. I'll have to go find another way to embed Flickr slideshows. Sat July 14 - I changed the embedded code in hopes the slideshow displays more consistently. Your feedback is appreciated.]

Questions for the presidential candidates - on YouTube?!

Here's some eye candy to keep you interested in coming back here. Apparently YouTube invited people to submit questions for the July 23 Democratic presidential candidates. Computerworld sorted out the ones they thought funniest and here's a taste of one. These guys are from "redstateupdate.com".