Sharma Family Journal

Typical problem: disk storms after sleep/wakeup, slow startup and generally weird behavior from windows7 after the vista to w7 upgrade. Looks a lot better after upgrading the BIOS from 31xx to 3302.

Chirag wanted me to make this cute little creature called Rudy. Pattern is from Michaels . It took about 5-6 hours to make it but is worth it. He watched his baby brother while I crocheted Rudy. Now they are inseparable.

From Nov09

From Nov09

I made this cute little pumpkin hat for my li’l pumpkin. I got the crochet pattern from Bev. The pattern is for premie. So I added 30 rows to fit. It took about a 4-5 hours spanning a few days.

He is saying, “don’t I look cute in this hat?”

From Crochet

From Crochet

From Crochet

I organized a Diwali activity in my son’s first grade class. Kids drew and colored Rangoli on a paper plate. I asked the kids to clean up their room and hang Rangoli plate on the door knob. Kids had lot of fun!

What you need:
A paper plate
Pencil
Crayons
Hole puncher
A small piece of Yarn to tie a loop

I put the dots on the plate and numbered them according to design. Here is my design. I kept it simple.

From DiwaliCraft

Kids connected dots from 1 – 16. Then they connected all even numbers to the center. This was the only tricky part for first graders! Tell them not to leave any gaps on rangoli or else evil spirits will enter! You can now see the pattern. Next step is to color.

From DiwaliCraft

I asked kids to pick 5 colors and color with pattern in mind. Here is how it looked after coloring.

From DiwaliCraft

You can punch a hole and tie a yarn. Here is Chirag’s rangoli hung on the door.

From DiwaliCraft

I wonder why folks like Buffalo even bother to write their own firmware. They should just ship their stuff with DD-WRT and save us a bunch of pain.

I made the mistake of trying to use their web GUI and spent 1.5 hours which I could’ve spent with my kids instead.

I need to pull Chirag out of his Ben10 and super hero obsession. I thought I will get him to do this simple Halloween craft which I saw on AlphaMom blog. It took about 10 min.

STEP 1 : Take a long piece of paper (I chose green which I had got with a mail order). Make several folds.

From Oct 2009

STEP 2: Draw Template. Then cut it out.

From Oct 2009

STEP 3: The fun step for Chirag, making ghost faces

From Oct 2009

Here is how it looked

From Oct 2009

Six months and 1 week old…busy trying to stand up.

From Oct 2009

P.S: I wanted to crop off my ugly slippers seen at the corner but ah…forget it, no one is going to notice.

compared to Indians. Shanghai composite is down 5% today.

From Drop Box

Noticed this when watching a Sholay (1975) song today:

From Bengaluru