We made it to the weekend! And my kids made it to the end of their Summer Camps. Bay attended a 3D Printing & Product Design camp at UT Austin, where he learned how to use Autocad and created a prototype aquatic propulsion system using the 3D printer. The instructor said he was a great student with an eye for detail. I’m so proud!
In the photo above, you can see Bay presenting his product. He said that he was familiar with the software already since they use it in his engineering class in high school, but it’s always good to get practice and use it on a new project.
It was a busy week for the entire family, with Koa also going to camp, and Mariko being a chauffeur for Bay. I think everyone is exhausted and looking forward to a relaxing weekend. I know I am!
Photo info: FUJIFILM X100T, 23mm, f/8, 1/15000 sec, ISO400 “Color in the Clouds” Cedar Park, 2016
こんばんは！How’s it going?
Yet another cloud photo?! I’m having fun making these images using my X100T. I’ve been playing around with the exposure compensation dial, aperture, shutter speed, and ISO to try to darken the sky a lot so I can bring out more detail in the bright clouds. I even noticed that my camera used its electronic shutter to take today’s photo at 1/15,000 of second, and yesterday’s photo at 1/23,000 of a second. That is insane!
Anyways, that’s all I’ve got for today… just a cloud photo, but at least this one has some color right around the sun. It’s kind of cool the things you can uncover by adjusting camera settings and post-processing in Lightroom. Fun stuff!
Today I opened up my Kindle and saw the message that you see in the photo above. It was surprising to me because it was the first time my Kindle’s battery has dropped low enough to see that warning. I love my Kindle so much because the battery lasts so long between charges and it doesn’t give me any battery anxiety. Electronics that don’t need to be charged so often, like my Kindle, my Chromebook, and my Sansa MP3 player, are the best! So the message in the photo was a shock to me. I hope it doesn’t mean the battery is close to the end… 😔 But, I wouldn’t mind getting a new Kindle Paperwhite. I would love a backlit e-reader.
I hope you had a good day! Try to stay cool out there.
こんばんは！Happy Father’s Day to all the dad’s out there!
Today was a super busy one for us because both Koa and Bay are starting week-long summer camps. First off, Koa is attending a percussion camp down at Texas State University in San Marcos which is about a 45-minute drive south from us and today was his check-in and audition. He’s pretty excited because he gets to stay over in the dorms! Plus there are a lot of fun activities planned and many different classes where he’ll learn a lot of different kinds of percussion. I think he’ll have a ton of fun! 🎼
After dropping him off, we decided to stop by the Kyle Flea Market that we passed by on the way to the camp. It was pretty fun, but super hot! Although today is only in the low 90s, the flea market warehouse was not air-conditioned so it was sweltering! 😅 We didn’t find anything worth buying but it was still interesting to see how much junk was for sale.
Next up was lunch, which I got to decide since it is Father’s Day. I was presented with two choices: Shake Shack or Burgerfi. I think I was pretty much guided to choose Burgerfi which was fine with me. The burgers were yummy and it really hit the spot! I chose the “Conflicted Burger” which was one meat patty and one veggie-patty. It was pretty good, but I think I should have just gotten a double-cheeseburger with jalapeños, which is exactly what Bay ordered. Mariko had a cheeseburger with fried egg, and I had a bite… definitely a good combination!
Next up on our Sunday list was to visit the UT campus to check out where Bay’s 3D Printing & Product Design camp will be held. Mariko will be dropping him off and picking him up each day so she wanted to make sure she knew the location. Once we checked it out, we walked to a cream-puff bakery called Cream Whiskers for some ice coffee and matcha cream-puffs. It was yummy!
When we left the bakery, it was close after 6pm so we headed home and then watched game 7 of the NBA finals, and that brings us up to the present!
Oh, one more thing… my Father’s Day loot!
Photo info: FUJIFILM X100T, 23mm, f/8, 1/17 sec, ISO6400 “Father’s Day Loot” Cedar Park, 2016
I received a bunch of cool stuff:
Sweet treats and trail mix from my parents
Yo-kai Watch game for the Nintendo 3DS (or my 2DS)
Food-grinder attachment for our mixer so I can make fresh burgers 🍔
5-year Diary. Each day has five entries, so you can easily see what you did on the same day the previous year
Now it’s almost midnight and I didn’t get to play Yo-kai Watch yet… maybe I’ll get to play tomorrow. 🎮
Tomorrow is Father’s Day, but we celebrated an early Father’s Day dinner this year because tomorrow we’ll be very busy and our family won’t be together at dinner time. We’re taking Koa to a Percussion camp, where he will stay for the week. But we often celebrate special occasions early because we like to avoid the dinner crowds, especially on Mother’s and Father’s days.
For this year, I decided that I wanted to go out for Korean BBQ since we haven’t had it in a while. Plus I know the kids like it and Mariko won’t have to cook. 😀 We have two go-to Korean BBQ restaurants we like here in Austin, but there is a new one that recently opened and we decided to give it a try. Charm Korean BBQ is about 25 minutes away from our house and since Mariko and the boys were out watching “Finding Dory” down in South Austin, we figured I’d just meet them at the restaurant after the movie was finished.
I arrived a bit before Mariko and the kids, so I had time to take the photo above from the lobby. By the way, temperatures went over 100°F here in Austin. That seems a bit early in the year, doesn’t it? 😓
We ordered three meat dishes – marinated beef, spicy pork belly, and beef tongue. They were all tasty, but my favorite was the spicy pork. Of course I love the spicy foods, and I even added some raw jalapeño slices to give it even more heat. 🔥 Koa’s favorite was the beef tongue, which was really flavorful. I’m surprised that he likes it because I thought he would object to eating “weird” meat. 🐮
I’d say that Charm Korean BBQ is pretty good, but I think I prefer our old stand-byes: Korea House and Chosun. The side dishes at those two restaurants is superior to those at Charm, and I’d also say the meat is tastier at the older restaurants. Still, it’s nice to have options, and if you want all-you-can-eat Korean BBQ, Charm offers it while the other two don’t. So there’s that. ☺️
I hope you had a nice Saturday!
おやすみなさい！ – B
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