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Man, oh man… The last couple of weeks… It all happened on one day — but what a day!

It started by my main computer crashing. I back up everything vital — so I didn’t have to worry about losing any photos, or anything, but it’s just a frustrating thing to deal with. Especially considering that this was my FOURTH mac crash in 4 years.

So as I was bringing the computer downstairs, I dropped it. The drop broke it. Glass everywhere. That beautiful 27 inch screen was no more!

Later that night, I dropped my iPhone — and that broke, as well! After tweeting and facebooking these events, I had so many funny comments…

Funny stuff :)

So from there, I got Apple to fix all the broken stuff (from the drop). But they had to wait until things were shipped in to do that. Once that happened, I picked the iMac up and took it apart to deal with the hard drive. So I replaced that with a new one (a bit trickier with these newer, 27″ iMacs).

Now to installing the OS… This was tricky. My drive ALSO broke — unbeknownst to me — so I couldn’t simply install from the original discs. My mom has an external dvd drive… but, go fig, it was ALSO broken! So through some friends on Twitter, I finally figured out how to format the OS to a CF card, and boot the new hard drive in my iMac through the CF card… It felt SOOOO good to get that up and running!

Since that’s all taken care of, next up is getting my iPhone fixed! And if you want to learn more about my luck with Apple products, here’s what happened to my iPad a few months ago, crash #2, and crash #3 :P

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The first week of 2012 was an awesome one! So many little things took place :)

We went to the beach…

I hung out with some raccoons…

Clive and his buddy, Jack, went to the petting zoo (at the Wild Animal Park :)…

And then Lindsay got her tattoo! It was an anniversary present that’s been a loooong time coming… Josh at Dark Art Tattoo killed it!

And that last one of Clive is just for good measure :) Hope 2012 is starting great for everyone out there!!!

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9 years. I married Lindsay on January 4th. 9 years ago. I still can’t believe that so many years have gone by so quickly and I find myself at the same time confused as to how I went nearly 20 years without Lindsay. It’s very, very odd when I try to imagine my life pre-Lindsay. Almost like that part never happened, if that makes sense :)

Lindsay and I are a bit different with anniversaries and valentine’s day. We never plan much of anything but usually by the end of the day some special things take place. We’ve had Valentine’s in Prague, anniversaries in England, China, and other places I can’t remember… But we’ve never really set out with the idea of “ohh… let’s do something SUPER special today!” The irony is that something special typically ends up happening :)

Yesterday was similar. We started out the day with Clive and one of my best friends, David. Just hanging out. Then, when Clive went down for a nap, we left him with my parents and headed over to Lindsay’s consultation for her tattoo! She’s been dying to get some tattoos for a few years now — and I figured that would be a good surprise present for our anniversary. We’re both really excited about what she’s getting. She’ll be getting inked up this Saturday and probably won’t sleep Friday night :P

Then we took Clive for a walk and eventually put him down for the night. We met up with my best friend, Garrett, and our good friend, Ali, for dinner. We’re weirdos who like to eat WITH other people on “our” day. That was perfect.

The ender ender, after black hammer (as we say in skateboarding) was as Lindsay and I pulled out from the restaurant. We took a photo together (the one below) and Lindsay thought she saw a cat in the gutter. But it wasn’t a cat — it was three raccoons!!! If you know me, you know how much I love running into any kind of wildlife. We used to have tons of raccoons in Escondido when I was growing up, but they aren’t common in my neighborhood now. Haven’t seen one in quite a few years.

I parked the car and headed over to the gutter with my leftovers. People inside were looking at me like I was a crazy person as I was squatted down, smiling at a gutter :) Within a few minutes, I got the raccoons out and eating from my hand. It was as fun for me as playing with monkeys out in Cambodia is, to be honest.

As we were driving home, Lindsay kept talking about her tattoo and I kept talking about my raccoons. I added “the only thing that could make this night better would be an owl…” No joke, before I finish the sentence, I look over and see an owl perched on a fence. It flies away and ends up landing on the fence right next to our window. I get out, with the car lights facing it so that I can walk close to it without it seeing me, and just watched him until he flew away. I freaking love owls.

All in all, it was a great anniversary. I love being married to Lindsay :)

Top left: Lindsay’s gym bag and Clive’s gym bag. Top right: Clive having a blast going backwards down the stairs.
Middle left: Remmy and Trouble. Middle right: Clive is shocked that we’ve been together for 9 years!
Bottom left: A few minutes before midnight. Bottom Right: My raccoon pals :)

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Here’s how we spent our Christmas this morning. We picked up a pizza, threw the dogs in the car, and watched some dolphins. San Diego is notoriously awesome on Christmas day when it comes to weather — so we spent the day in tshirts :)

David Jesus Luis Mercado Junior.

Ladycrazy.

Merry Christmas!!!

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Made it to Cambodia but have to post these. Clive sliding at the park the day after Thanksgiving :)

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