Happy birthday Junior... another one turns 5!



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The Beckwith and Havens families had a blast up in Soda Springs this weekend. We had a great cabin and the weather was awesome - clear skies and no wind (until Sunday). There was also a great area for the kids to go tubin' and for me to get a few runs on the snowboard.




Emily, Makenzy and Junior getting ready to go out on Saturday. Check out the pictures from this weekend here.

We got the news on Tuesday that we lost a dear family friend. Jim Serna had passed away.

I have known Jim and his family ever since I can remember and will always remember him as a dedicated husband, father and grandfather. Some of our greatest memories of Jim come from the several recent Extravaganzas that we attended (especially the "in case of emergency, break glass" shirt he wore back in 2004 - I have no idea why that stands out to me but it does). Jim, and his family, were also so very gracious to my family after losing my Mom and Ty and I will always be grateful for that.

Our thoughts and love go out to Patti and the rest of their wonderful family. Jim will be missed a great deal.


Extravaganza 2002 - Georgetown

Well, the Deckos are on the move (most of them anyway). While Cwissy stays back to settle things in Stockton, Twon and the kids have busted out of dodge in favor of the gorgeous, wide-open land up north. There goes the neighborhood... as the Deckos start moving in to "The Property"... just wait for the first brotherhood party... we can't wait!







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Wow! Talk about a chilly winter... it's even snowin' in Fort Worth, Texas... check out the great pictures Megan sent!

Stay warm you guys... and drive safe!

Dawn, Emily and I went to see the Golden State Warriors take on the Miami Heat (playing without Shaq). This was Emily's first NBA game (in a suite, nonetheless). Great game... if you are a Heat fan. Since I don't really follow the NBA I didn't really care who won (the Heat burned the Warriors 118-96).



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My first trip to Macworld was great! We had an absolute blast at the expo and afterward at the Mac Podcasters meet up. Check out the piece I wrote for the Typical Mac User Podcast (http://typicalmacuser.com/wordpress/?p=237).

The non-Mac highlight of the day had to be meeting Sinbad. He is a true Mac fan and it was great to talk to him about his thoughts on the iPhone.



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Macworld Conference & Expo is next week and Mike and I will be there on Thursday!



We have all been inundated with rumors of the iPhone and an early release of Leopard; iTV seems to be a no-brainer, as does a re-vamped iLife / iWork.

Here are my predictions (ok, some of them are merely hopes) for Tuesday's keynote presentation:

1. There will be no iPhone (although Jobs will make jokes about it).
2. Leopard will be released earlier than originally announced.
3. iWeb will be completely re-vamped to integrate one-touch publishing for hosting services other than dot-mac. It will also finally give us a simple file management system and easy editing of css attributes.
4. iTV will be the grandest announcement at the event as it will contain many more features than we were led to believe.
5. Mac Spreadsheet will be lame.
6. The 100 GB iPod will be finally come out, the next version will be WiFi and Bluetooth.
7. dot-Mac will be upgraded with increased storage space and iCalendar sharing improvements.
8. A mammoth 42 inch iMac is released.

Maybe, just maybe, there will be some other updates as well:

a new lisa?

a new Newton?

There you go. Enjoy Macworld!

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and never brought to mind? Should auld acquaintance be forgot, and auld lang syne?

Happy New Year! We all rang in the new year at F&F's (although not as much confetti as the last couple of years). As we always do when we celebrate at F&F's, we did a shrimp-boil (with crab, too). And by "we" I mean a lot of people except for me ate the shrimp and crab; I picked around it to the saugages, potatoes and pearl onions. Santa brought Fred a new drum set so I brought the guitar and bass and everyone took turns rockin' out.



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