Ted and Martha Munnecke celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary on May 10, 2008 with many friends and family in attendance.

Kristin and Ted

Kristin and Martha

Ted and Martha

The cake

A rainbow came out at just the right moment, after a lot of rain

Beautiful Clouds

Oops, I broke the paddle when heading back to shore after it started lightning and thundering while we were out on the lake

Kristin, Ted and Michael all glad to be wearing their Patagonia rain gear, after the other guests had left for the evening.

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Had a gentle walk around the park tonight with Kuma. Practicing seeing the good and grace that belongs to all of us, everywhere, all the time.

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Here are some of my favorite pictures from our trip to Mexico for Kristin’s author visit to the American School Foundation of Monterrey in Mexico. We stayed an extra two days in the beautiful mountain resort of Chipinque.

See the whole Flickr set here

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Kristin has some author school visits scheduled at an international school in Monterrey, Mexico in the next couple of days. We’re leaving later this morning (Wednesday, April 9) and will be returning Monday evening (April 14).

Where is Monterrey, Mexico, you might ask?

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This is the hotel we’ll be staying at over the weekend. Even though it looks fun and all, and is supposed to be in the 100º F range temperature-wise, I will be working throughout the trip.

I don’t think my cell phone is going to be working, however, so email or IM is probably going to be the best way to get in touch while we’re gone.

Still to-do before I can go to bed before waking up in a couple of hours:

1. Finish preparing tax docs for the accountant
2. Prepare mileage spreadsheet for 2007 - uggh
3. Pack
4. Clean this mess up.
5. Save new voicemail greeting message explaining why I’m not picking up
6. Backup laptop (just in case)

My desk looks like this right now:

So fun. Sort of.

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In preparation for upgrading a whole mess of sites to using the latest version of WordPress I decided it was time to finally upgrade my own site and to implement the new design I’d been working on for a while (for over a year now).

Check it out: www.gabrielserafini.com

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I can see why people like FriendFeed. It brings together lots of services, very easily, quickly, and more twitter-like and simple presentation than Tumblr which does much the same thing but shows larger versions of the content vs. smaller thumbnails. Also, the whole social aspect of it (the ‘friend’ part) is pretty sweet… see who is subscribed to who and easily add them yourself. Cool!

You can see it here: Gabriel - FriendFeed

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On 2/15/08 I was 195.5 lb.

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It’s super simple: Click this link, then join the Facebook Causes group for Monteverde Conservation League and donate any amount.

Right now, if we can get another 7 donors in the next 22 hours the Children’s Eternal Rainforest will get $1,000 for free. So your tax-deductible $10 donation could help save another $1,000 worth of rainforest in Costa Rica.

Check it out, and give a little if you can:
Join the Children’s Eternal Rainforest cause on Facebook

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We just replaced Kristin’s laptop’s keyboard since the up, down, right shift and enter keys don’t work anymore.

I listed the keyboard on eBay, so go there and bid on it if you’re interested in it for the parts.

Thanks!

Check out the eBay Listing: Apple 12″ PowerBook G4 Keyboard Keys (Full Set) NR!

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