my niece is coming!!! my niece is coming!!!

this time it'll be perfectly situated around the weekend in february when the san francisco chinese new year parade and festivities will occur. that will be a fun and educational cultural experience for her to enjoy. i'm already finding lots of fun activities for kids on the chinese new year parade website under 'students and teachers' section. so we'll have much to do, and learn, that weekend with the parade and other stuff. plus it turns out i'm a dog! it's the year of the dog on the chinese calendar and turns out i'm a dog by birth and so it's my year to be special, head the parade, receive special gifts and flowers, and receive lots of money. so anyone listening should go to my wish list right now and help me celebrate appropriately. do it now or else i'll bite. :-)

a year ago this weekend she was here and we had a great time going to this rubik's cube tournament at the exploratorium. unfortunately i'm going to have to miss this year's but anyone in the city should take the time to see these people do the rubik's cube in 15 seconds. it's pretty amazing.