Monday, July 14, 2014

JIm's Birthday

Richard came over yesterday to celebrate Jim's birthday (Grace had an editors award dinner) and I got off easy for cooking since we ordered from Stephos.  Good thing because it wasn't a day to be around a hot stove!
Jim showing Richard his work on the open textbook.  He was very impressed and proud of his Dad!

Richard got a really cool birthday present for Jim.  On his recent road trip he was in Powell's Books in Portland and got two books specially printed up for him.  They have this book printing machine there and can print up a book from any electronic source.  It only takes about 10 minutes.  And then you also get the leftover cuttings bound into a notepad….very cool!



And I got the book bag for my collection for my birthday….thanks,  Richard.  Great birthday gift ideas!


The Book Machine

This blog post gives more info about it:
http://www.portlandmercury.com/BlogtownPDX/archives/2012/05/04/more-on-powells-new-espresso-book-machine

Richard and Grace drove down to San Francisco for a wedding and stayed at the Ace Hotel on the way down and The Kennedy School on the way back…both very neat venues.

http://www.mcmenamins.com/427-kennedy-school-home

The wedding was out at Eve and Danny's farm and it seems Richard was responsible for cooking the pig…a 24 hour job….!