Lisa Mullinaux posted: Our Christmas tree is almost complete… Still looking for that special tree topper - for now, a couple of Christmas pigs do the job…

What more can I say :)

[ ](/u/2012/09/20120910_063241.png) Would you believe who I bumped into having breakfast during my morning stroll. This little chap was floating in the water just off the cliff when I spotted him. Just as I came along side, he rolled over and disappeared underwater, only to reappear a few seconds later with this tasty morsal.

 I think a small startup in Israel has just made Google maps on smart phones obsolete (along with every existing GPS manufacturer). Waze - a social navigation tool that uses your position and speed to detect traffic conditions and alert your fellow travellers in real time (and it also allows you to share info about accidents, police traps etc.) Honestly Google - how did you miss this one? Google maps is installed on every Android phone, but you can't use it to give us real time traffic?

[ ](/u/2012/05/santa_cruz_mountain_morning.jpg) If you have to drive to work, there are much worse ways to do it that driving through the backroads from Santa Cruz to Silicon Valley as the early morning sun breaks through the mist.

[ ](/u/2012/04/donna_at_att_park.jpg) Great game tonight at AT&T; park with Donna.

Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything – all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure – these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Steve Jobs

[ ](/u/2011/12/mitchell_cove.jpg) Mitchell Cove in Santa Cruz, just north of Lighthouse State Park, yesterday evening.