Archive for the ‘family’ Category

Surprise!

Saturday, February 7th, 2009

For the second time this week we surprised my daughter with a birthday party.  The first was thrown Saturday, Feb 2, by her friend Matt who also happens to be a DJ and played to a packed room with all his equipment. http://www.shokk.com/gallery2/v/album_003/ The second was today,  Feb 7, her actual birthday, ...

Merry Christmas and Happy 2009

Saturday, January 10th, 2009

A belated Merry Christmas and Happy 2009! Some time after midnight I happened to glance at the screen for one of my servers and saw this on the console Clock: inserting leap second 23:59:60 UTC to display that a leap second had been added to the end of 2008, almost like it ...

Angel the Pug

Thursday, July 3rd, 2008

We have Angel the Pug living with us for a couple of weeks. We adopted her from a coworker who could no longer have her in the house with their territorial chihuahua. We will be giving Angel to our niece in Pennsylvania in a couple of weeks, where ...

Happy Anniversary!

Sunday, June 1st, 2008

It was 17 years ago today that my wife and I were married. This photo of us was taken in the back yard of my mother-in-law's house during our reception - we were way too poor to have it anywhere else. It wasn't extravagant, but it was ours ...

The Littlest Sniper

Saturday, May 17th, 2008

Happy Birthday Antonio! Our little guy turned 5 today and after a hard evening of gaming with Halo 3, he passed out playing an old favorite, Need For Speed Underground 2. He had such a tight clutch on the controller we had to tug hard to get it ...

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

Tuesday, January 1st, 2008

This Christmas was filled with all sorts of delights. From good times with family and friends to new XBox 360s, bikes, TVs and laptops. After dealing with the agonizingly inconsistent behavior of our Sony KP-51HW40 for over a year, we finally decided to replace it with a Samsung ...

Congratulations Andre and Eileen!

Sunday, October 30th, 2005

Congratulations to my brother Andre Oporto on his wedding this weekend to long time girlfriend Eileen Hughes. They planned a fantastic ceremony and reception. It was great to see family and friends again for such a happy occasion. http://hughesoportowedding.com