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Aloha Friday: Holiday Foods

December 3, 2010 TechyDad Aloha Friday, Food, Holidays, Judaism

It’s sometimes been said that the Jewish holidays revolve around food (or the lack thereof). We eat apples and honey on Rosh Hashana, fast on Yom Kippur and don’t eat bread on Passover. Chanukah is no different. Since, on Chanukah we celebrate one day’s worth of oil lasting eight days, the traditional foods involve items fried in oil. Sure, they might not be the healthiest foods for you, but potato latkes and jelly donuts are quite delicious. We even have a sort of Christmas day food tradition. Since they are the only places open, we go to a Chinese restaurant.

My Aloha Friday question for today is: What are your family’s food traditions for this holiday season?

Thanks to Kailani at An Island Life for starting this fun for Friday. Please be sure to head over to her blog to say hello and sign the McLinky there if you are participating.

Aloha #66

Aloha Friday: Thanksgiving Favorites

November 26, 2010 TechyDad Aloha Friday, Food, Holidays

By now, the turkey has been gobbled and the stuffing has stuffed our bellies. Different people like different foods on Thanksgiving, though. For some, sweet potatoes are the ones to beat. For others, cranberry sauce from the can is the item for which they ran.

In my case, I always love stuffing has been a favorite of mine for years. Sweet potatoes casserole with melted marshmallows, however, are a close second. They remind me of growing up and fighting with my mother annually about taking a piece solely to eat the marshmallow topping. After years of insisting that I hated sweet potatoes, I tried them and found that I loved them!

Oh, and don’t worry. The turkey in the photo wasn’t burnt, but smoked. It was perfect inside and quite tasty.

My Aloha Friday question for today is: What is your favorite Thanksgiving food that you ate tonight? Which food inspires the most Thanksgiving memories?

Thanks to Kailani at An Island Life for starting this fun for Friday. Please be sure to head over to her blog to say hello and sign the McLinky there if you are participating.

Aloha #65

Aloha Friday: Camera Lifespan

November 19, 2010 TechyDad Aloha Friday

Last night, I went to check on NHL and JSL. They were sleeping just fine, except for the fact that they seemed to need some remedial lessons on the usage of pillows. NHL had the pillow over his face. JSL was using it for a leg rest, having turned nearly 180 degrees. Naturally, I went to take a photo of them before fixing their sleeping positions.

See JSL in this photo? Neither do I and no, I didn’t leave the lens cap on. The camera was on, lens cap removed and flash all set to go off. But the flash didn’t go off. I was left with an all black photo. I turned the camera off and on but that only seemed to make it work once before dying again. I finally managed to snag these shots.

Thinking that perhaps the battery was low (even though the indicator said it was fully charged), I charged it overnight. Trying it Thursday morning, though, showed that this wasn’t the problem. I spent most of the day thinking that my trusty camera was dying. I’ve been lusting after a DSLR for awhile now, but I never could justify spending the funds.

With my camera dying and B’s camera acting all funky (the battery indicator will say it needs new batteries when she’s just put a fresh set in), I’ve been thinking about camera lifespan.

My Aloha Friday question for today is: How long has your current digital camera lasted you? How long have your previous digital cameras lasted? Did they die on you or were they just replaced with a new model?

Thanks to Kailani at An Island Life for starting this fun for Friday. Please be sure to head over to her blog to say hello and sign the McLinky there if you are participating.

Aloha #64

Aloha Friday: Like Parent, Like Child

November 12, 2010 TechyDad Aloha Friday, NHL, Parenting

For better or worse, NHL often seems like a mini-TechyDad. Like me, he loves math and tries to work it into anything he does. He’s also a natural when it comes to computers. On the down side, he seems to either focus in on what he wants to do to the exclusion of everything (and everyone) around him or his brain goes a mile a minute and he has trouble staying on task.

NHL does have a big advantage I never had, though. Whereas I had to come up with strategies to deal with my shortcomings on my own, NHL has me as a resource. Having personally experienced many of the things he’s going through, I can be there for him and teach him what I’ve learned along the way.

My Aloha Friday question for today is: Does your child strongly resemble (physically, personality, or otherwise) you or your spouse?

Thanks to Kailani at An Island Life for starting this fun for Friday. Please be sure to head over to her blog to say hello and sign the McLinky there if you are participating.

Aloha #63

Aloha Friday: Help! We’ve Forgotten How To Date!

November 5, 2010 TechyDad Aloha Friday, B, Life

On Saturday night, after our first pumpkin carving, we left the kids with B’s parents and had one of those rare, wonderful moments called Date Night. Somehow, despite repeatedly saying how we should do this more often, we never get around to it. Illnesses, scheduling conflicts and life in general seem to conspire to limit our date night to a handful of times.

When the prospect of date night is mentioned, I envision going out for a night on the town. Dinner, maybe dancing. Definitely someplace elegant that has as small a kids’ menu as possible. Worries (money, kids, etc) would be tossed out the window for the evening and we would just enjoy each other’s company.

The reality of date night wasn’t *quite* like this. It started out very nice. We chose a restaurant we had a coupon for and had a blast. The food was exceptional and we even saved half of our portions for lunch, thus saving more money. (Is it bad that I feel old with all of these “saved money” references?)

Afterwards, we decided to shop at a local Hallmark store. On the way there, we remarked about how some kids looked like they were up to no good. (Again, “kids these days” reference… I feel OLD!) The Hallmark store was closed so we went to a local grocery store and stocked up on food essentials.

Wait. The grocery store? Our big date night out and the best we could do was dinner and shopping for food? Where’s the dancing? Where’s the movie? Where’s doing something fun together that doesn’t involve a shopping cart and a produce aisle?

During our date supermarket run, I joked that we had forgotten how to date. We’ve been parents for so long and so focused on running the household smoothly, that I fear we’ve forgotten how to put the “parent” portion of our lives on hold and just be “two adults who are in love with each other” for a few hours. Our dating life seems in some need of some help.

My Aloha Friday question for today is: Do you go on date nights regularly? If so, where do you go and what do you do?

Thanks to Kailani at An Island Life for starting this fun for Friday. Please be sure to head over to her blog to say hello and sign the McLinky there if you are participating.

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