happy.saturday

I woke up this morning to find an average-sized buck outside of my window.  He was just meandering around and was relatively close to my window, so I snapped a photo of him before he jumped away.  He showed up four separate times later on in the afternoon.  Chico and I decided that its name was Bort the Buck, and it may be a peeping-tom Deer-bot out to spy on me.  Tricky stuff.

Today was all around family fun.  It's nice to have a family that has matured quite a bit over the years (as have I, naturally).  We all get along a lot better, and whenever we have the free time to share meals or do things

together we have a lot of fun.  Today was the first time I had a full-fledged family meal.  My brother has constantly been out working on his senior film, so we all headed over to a tiny cafe and had lunch, followed by many photos (my dad is quite the shutterbug too).  I went lap swimming for the first time in ages with my Dad, and had pizza on the patio with my grandparents.  Finally, Harrison and Stephanie and I all went to Safeway and picked up ye good ol' Funfetti cake mix and frosting.  Funfetti is the best insta-cake ever, hands down.

I also managed to get out Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris and start to read it again.  Sedaris visited us at my college and was as wonderfully entertaining as a speaker as he is a writer.  He is going to release a twisted children's book later this year I believe, and it sounds like its going to be fantastic. 

After I put it down for the afternoon, I got really excited as I thought 'Hey!  Now I can put a book on my blog!  This is great!'.  Et voila, it is here.  I began to think of more fun books that I should read, and found some literature at my local library on Japanese Pop Culture that I'm going to dive into, plus a few more novels by the incredible Japanese writer Haruki Murakami. 

I started to think, maybe VOX will not only offer the interface that engages users to excitedly write and share, but with the additional media features, it could also engage users to listen to more music and read more books (something, that i'm almost sure most blog or cmc sites don't even begin to consider to attempt).  Its effect has tightly grasped hold of me, that's for certain.

Time for cake and a massive review of video game trailers (aka wii and ps3 sneak peeks with the lil sis and bro)! Cheers!