squircles and spiders
Sunday, 24. September 2006, 08:27:25
H loves that the stores are filled with holloween decor, all day she has been talking about spiders and asking me to draw spider webs and spiders for her. She asked me to show her pictures of spider webs. When I told S about this, she pictured H, at 3 and half, say, "Daddy, would you please do a google image search for me as I'd quite like to see a diverse array of spider webs." When in fact her construction was more like, "I see webs please NOW you have to do it."
"You have to" is a bit too prevalent in her vocabulary at the moment but it goes nicely with the "I will NOT bow down to You!" that she picked up from Alladin.
A friend of mine with odd obsessions has over 2072 images of circles on Flickr all cropped to square images that just fit the circle -- squircles. Most of these he's stitched into mosaics of related images where the relationship ranges from size of the original objects, colors, content, etc. H loves to find images of buttons in these and played "I spy my little eye..." for an hour with me on his flickr pages.
Today, when we were driving to the store to buy a throw to hide the dog drool stains on our sofa, she asked, "stay with me for ever and ever and ever?" Boy am I gonna miss her for the month+ I'll be in Oslo before they join. It's difficult to explain that you'll be there for the long haul with brief intermittent gaps.
We've started to look at flights for me and the cheapest one would have me transfer from Gatwick to Heathrow. It's about a 5 hour layover but I think that's not enough, what with having to collect baggage, go through customs, change airports, get everything re-checked, go through security, and find your gate not to mention lunch. Anyway, the hunt continues for a perfect flight and a place to live.
"You have to" is a bit too prevalent in her vocabulary at the moment but it goes nicely with the "I will NOT bow down to You!" that she picked up from Alladin.
A friend of mine with odd obsessions has over 2072 images of circles on Flickr all cropped to square images that just fit the circle -- squircles. Most of these he's stitched into mosaics of related images where the relationship ranges from size of the original objects, colors, content, etc. H loves to find images of buttons in these and played "I spy my little eye..." for an hour with me on his flickr pages.
Today, when we were driving to the store to buy a throw to hide the dog drool stains on our sofa, she asked, "stay with me for ever and ever and ever?" Boy am I gonna miss her for the month+ I'll be in Oslo before they join. It's difficult to explain that you'll be there for the long haul with brief intermittent gaps.
We've started to look at flights for me and the cheapest one would have me transfer from Gatwick to Heathrow. It's about a 5 hour layover but I think that's not enough, what with having to collect baggage, go through customs, change airports, get everything re-checked, go through security, and find your gate not to mention lunch. Anyway, the hunt continues for a perfect flight and a place to live.
Won't Opera pay for your flight to Norway? They should!
Whatever you do, TRY to avoid going through the UK at the present time. between the severely restricted carry on and the horrible security, I would not risk it.
I had THREE hours layover at Heathrow, JUST Heathrow, and the security on going from Terminal 3 to Terminal 4 took over an hour and a half. I thought i had enough time to shop at Heathrow, and that frigging security line took all my shopping time and left me just enough to grab a STarbucks and some Pret sandwiches....There went my dreams off the Gucci bag at tax free prices! (haha)
Check KLM via Houston/ Amsterdam.....they are pretty cheap. If worse comes to worse, start your journey in Houston and go from there. Saves money...that little leg to Austin gets expensive.
By anonymous user, # 24. September 2006, 09:54:44
Karla is right - Even we flight crew types have a devil of a time flying out the UK right now.
And I would share your nervousness about only having five hours to transfer from LGW to LHR.
By anonymous user, # 25. September 2006, 00:42:30
<img src="http://static.flickr.com/97/253059596_1b30a2ea48_m.jpg" width="240" height="180" alt="For H" />
By anonymous user, # 26. September 2006, 05:32:52
You need to tell your little darling to stop using that word as a verb
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/3006486.stm
By anonymous user, # 26. September 2006, 19:26:48
Karla,
Opera is reimbursing us for T's ticket as part of our relo package. With a limited relo budget, 2 more tickets to buy and a household & dogs to move, we need to be as frugal as possible.
Mag, you ROCK. Thank you for the custom squircle image. H loves it.
It was so good to see you last week!
S
p.s. I have NO recollection of the spider web conversation T relates above, apart from my saying something along the lines of, "That's cute." I look forward to his future embellishments of our conversations.
By anonymous user, # 27. September 2006, 01:27:38