Tomorrow’s election day and it looks like there will be record turnout. Hopefully that is the case, here in FL early voting has proven to be very popular but the lines have been long. Anyways, happy voting day!

Today is the International Talk Like a Pirate Day! I guess a lot of people still are not aware of it because I was talking to a co-worker and he thought I was drunk! Anyways, this day gives me the perfect excuse to link to one of my favorite pirate songs. If you have kids, you’ll recognize this show; Lazy Town.

Ahoy, Mateys!

Monica’s latest party had a fun “super star” Hanna Montana theme, and I made her this electric guitar piñata. We had a lot of fun making it, because of the shape there was no need for balloons or any messes with flour. I basically just used a box from one of my RC airplanes, cut the shape with one face of the box and traced the bottom part with the other side. The corners were just slices from the same box folded to form the necessary shape. Lots of tape was needed for this.

Because I was using a box and no paper mache, I was afraid the kids were going to have a hard time breaking it but no, it stood its ground and then broke when the bigger kids started hitting it.

One fun little detail where the knobs and the cords made out of colorful threads. Also added a little Hanna Montana sticker to keep up with the theme of the party.

BTW one of the top searches I keep getting is for “transformer piñata”, which almost makes me try to do one (Starscream or Optimus I guess). Too bad my girls are not really into the Transformers, but maybe I could do just for fun or give it to a friend.

We all went to Disney’s Magic Kingdom last weekend, and I like this picture we took of the castle at night. Makes it look a bit spooky.

Last post of the year. I haven’t updated the blog in a while, had kind of a longish vacation from work and was taking a bit of a break from the internet. In the middle of that, I had a very good trip to Panama and spoke at the corresponding JUG over there about JavaFX, more on that in a later post.I wish everybody a happy new year, and hope to update the blog more frequently. This year has been good in my life and I’m hoping things get even better in 2008.

Feliz Año Nuevo!

Hope everybody has a happy thanksgiving. After a long year of working, we’re finally getting to the holidays, so I’m really looking forward to spending to more quality time with the family. That and of course eating some turkey tonight and my favorite, leftover turkey sandwiches.

The poor lady at the counter couldn’t cancel the order for some reason, so she called another lady to help her, who called their manager, who called the main finance person, who then called some guy. I think they had like 5 people trying to figure out what happened to this register.

They took me to another store to pay for the item, which cost about 6$. It’s kind of funny, but I would have thought these cash registers wouldn’t even charge over a million dollars, specially at a store like this.

Click on comic strip to get the (readable) larger version …

Just to clarify, the last panel showing me being attacked is not literally true, but in a funny way very close to the actual “exchange”. Needless to say, I did not take the mouse in question, although I wish I had. Would have made the whole thing funnier in the end.