Wife and Kid are Away for a Month!

Zoe and Lars are visiting family in Taiwan for a month. I wasn't able to go because I have a lot of work to do, and have classes starting soon. I am going to miss them a lot. I really like going to Taiwan too!

Typography is fun!

My job does not rely at all on me being a graphic designer, let alone a talented one. So that makes learning about design principles all the more fun. I have been spending a lot of time reading articles on typography, and trying to apply them to my new personal web site. My old one, I made very quickly, and I hated it 5 minutes after it was done. The new one is pretty nice I think. The design is just about complete. Now I am focusing more on content. Hopefully not too much longer.

Butterflies

We have several gardens in our back yard. I perennial herb garden, an annual garden with annual herbs, lettuce and such and a produce garden with tomatoes, potatoes, squash etc. Last week we found a number of caterpillars on our dill. I knew they were something nice (i.e. not some pest), so we took them in and raised them with our son. It was easy, we found them on dill and fed them dill. They ate all of our dill! After a few days they transformed into pupae, and yesterday the first emerged! Finally we know they are black swallowtails. The second emerged today, and we were fortunate to see everything except the part where he popped out of the cocoon.