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I had THE most wonderful time last week at the Balloon Fiesta in Albuquerque. I blogged all about it on our balloon site, Sonoran Star. Here are the pics from the photo gallery we put together. I’ve got a YouTube video coming, but I’ll probably wait until this weekend to start editing it. This was [...]

Since GoDaddy’s junked-out, crapola servers ate my blog post I just spent 30 minutes on, I’m now going to regurgitate the abridged version of the post I just lost. For my birthday this year, my wonderful husband bought me an iPad! 3G, 32gb of magically delicious Apple technology. Yeah, I’m a bit of a fangirl. [...]

Here’s tonight’s adventure in dining: Lebanese-inspired Lamb Wellington in a puff pastry with tzatziki sauce. Absolutely delicious, and fairly easy to make (after all the chopping and blending). ;) Lebanese-inspired Lamb Wellington, 4 servings, 8 pastries Lamb Filling 1 Tbsp olive oil 1 lb ground lamb 1 roma tomato, diced 4 green onions, diced 1 [...]

Every time we go somewhere and we see police, mall cops, or information guides on Segways, I always joke with Chuck about Operation: Grand Theft Segway. The only time I have illegal machinations is either in sushi bars (where I like to imagine doing a a smash-and-grab on the tako behind the glass and running [...]

testing something for work: stuff Vegas last weekend was fantastic. It was relaxing to have four days off in a row and not have to bring a computer (iPad doesn’t count). We ate like kings, and didn’t even get around to gambling even a penny. In “Old Vegas” you used to be able to toss [...]

This week I walked down the hall at work only to return to my desk where there was a box in my seat. I grabbed some scissors and opened it up and was thrilled to find a beautiful dozen roses sent to me from my wonderful husband. Red roses out of the blue — definitely [...]

Our German Shepherd gets a morning walk and an evening walk without fail, every single day. As a result, he’s the best behaved, easiest dog to handle. Chuck walks him in the mornings, I get the night shift. The walk is actually a great time to relax and live in the moment — something I [...]

I have recently realized that I am quite the little media consumer. Borrowing the iPad from work doesn’t help my cause, either. I have turned into a tech feed addict, always making sure I don’t miss the latest Mashable, Engadget, Gizmodo, or MacRumors post. I’m consuming far more than I’m creating. Time to tip the [...]

I absolutely love my iPhone 4 — it’s by far the best gadget I’ve ever owned. This past weekend I purchased a fantastic app called Camera+ and it has some amazing filters and borders to make your pics look great. The cloud pics were taken around 6:30am last Saturday when we were at the dog [...]

The Problem: When creating drop-down navigation, here’s a pro tip. Don’t add a tooltip! First of all, this navigation unnecessarily uses images as text for each of the main elements, while the sub-elements are all proper text. There is no valid reason for using images in this navigation scheme — in the end, everything is [...]