Please see the link on the left. I’m still working on adding features, but it’s usable.

My photo gallery is down again.  I’m just not happy with the amount of overhead involved in managing a site using Gallery.  I’m researching alternatives, maybe I’ll write my own, I don’t know yet.  Meanwhile all my pictures can be accessed at http://www.houseofgnomes.net/images

Smith, Geoffrey John

Beloved husband and father – Geoff, who never smoked, waged a valiant and courageous two year battle against lung cancer. Born July 25, 1945 in Melbourne, Australia – died September 24, 2008 in Plano, Texas. He is survived by Patricia Brough Smith his wife of 38 years, daughters Melissa Friedman, Amanda Smith and Cecilia Smith; sons-in-law Michael Friedman and Sam Smith and grandchildren Chelsea and Jacob Friedman. He is also survived by his sister Wendy Ellen Hunt and her husband John of the U.K. and their children and grandchildren, stepfather James Searle and other Searle family members and father-in-law Max Brough and family all of Australia.

Geoff graduated from the University of Melbourne, Australia with a business degree. He was with Eastman Kodak Company for over 30 years. His last position before early retirement was General Manager & Regional Vice President, Southwest, for Kodak’s Office Imaging division. He went on to form a business consulting and software reseller company, most recently dealing with SAP’s Business One software.

In lieu of flowers memorials may be made to Cancer Foundation for Life (CFFL), P.O. Box 461042, Garland, TX 75046 or Community Hospice of Texas (CHOT), 1341 W. Mockingbird Lane, Suite 210 East, Dallas, TX 75247.

A memorial service will be held at 10.30 a.m. on Saturday, September 27, at The Episcopal Church of the Transfiguration, 14115 Hillcrest Rd., Dallas.

We had a fun day today.  We first went out to the Pigs and Peaches BBQ Festival out in Kennesaw.  I love BBQ festivals and one day, we will enter one.  We got to sample some free BBQ at one of the stalls, it was really good, the pulled pork had a sweet sauce with a nice pepper kick to it.  After the festival we headed over to a blueberry farm to pick a bunch of blueberries.  For dinner, we decided to make it an Iron Chef type night where every dish for dinner had to have blueberries in it.  Dinner started with pork tenderloins cooked in a blueberry glaze, with a salad of mixed greens, onion and chevre topped with a blueberry vinagrette.  In addition we also had blueberry muffins.  For dessert there was blueberry and white chocolate chip scones with whipped cream and blueberry jam.  We still have a ton of berries left over, but somehow I think they will get eaten.

One thing I almost forgot, we saw the most interesting house today in Crabapple, GA. http://roadsidegeorgia.com/places/thecastle.html

Well Around the World 2008 just happened this weekend.  I ran The Leaky Cauldron (from Harry Potter) again for the third year running.  I was a little disappointed in the number of countries this year.  There were only 3 pre-planned countries, and 6 total at the party with the last minute additions.  There were only 2 actual countries this year, and no presentation at any of the stations.  I’m going to run an actual country next year and try to push as many people as possible to do countries and do them well.  The fire poi was a nice bonus though, there are some very talented people at the fraternity house these days.

Here’s the link to the album.

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I hosted a baby shower for my friend Trin this weekend and a group of us have been hard at work since the beginning of the year knitting tons of baby booties for this event.  The booties were supposed to be a surprise, so I haven’t been able to post anything about them until now.  So without further ado, here’s the pictures of the booties, the shower, and all the onesies people decorated at the shower.

Sam and I went to Origins last week in Columbus, OH. It was a blast, and apparently we even made the local news when I took the picture of Sam with the pokemon.

Here’s pictures of Sam rafting on the Ocoee this past Sunday. He did the upper and middle sections.

I’ve decided my age shall be in binary from now on. This is how old I am now. Check out the pics from Dallas.

My uncle sent me this, it’s hilarious.

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