The Artistic Side of the Family

As you all know Martika is off at Art School. She does get home occasionally, often to get more money (just kidding), but she is not the only one that is artistic in the family ... but I will get to that in a second.

This weekend Tika was indeed home and the National Book festival was going on in DC, along with a dozen other things, so with Sammy reading so much lately we headed towards DC for a visit. On the way we stopped in Arlington and had some great burgers and lots of laughs at BGR - a very good burger joint. After lunch we headed down to the Mall where the girls got to see the Magic School Bus and tour around the Book Festival. It was not quite what we had expected, so after a short visit we headed over to the Botanical Gardens so Tika could get some base work for a project she has coming up. I did not have my camera but I did manage to take a few shots with my cell phone and put them up here.


It was a great afternoon and we had lots of fun. Now to my first comment on Tika not being the only artistic one. My very adventurous wife has been finding all sorts of things that she can do with her cell phone - including creative photography and I think they are very good. A couple of recent ones you can see here. But she has more and as I get them I will post them up on our Picasa site so keep an eye out. Maybe one day we will get her selling some of these - maybe she will be famous for her photography as well as for her research mind. I will say it is wonderful learning new things about her - especially when I did find out that she is actually ticklish :-) Don't worry Sweety - I won't tell.

Back from Ottawa ....

It was a long weekend but it was a fun one.

Went to Ottawa for a couple of days of work and then had some down time as well. Some former colleagues had arranged a reunion/fund-raiser. The reunion part was people that had been at Entrust mostly during the IPO time. I got to see people who I had not seen in 10 years as well as catching up with friends who are living all over. It was a great event and we raised over $27,000 for the Ottawa Hospital Foundation.

I also got to spend some time with my brother Wayne and the family. Nothing like playing catch and doing chalk drawings on the driveway. I also got to catch up with my dear old friend Malcolm, who also happens to be Martika's godfather. We had a great evening catching up and having a few beers (ok - one more poured then should have been).

All in all a GREAT weekend.

---- cu